Clotworthy Rowley

Clotworthy Rowley ( 1731 - March 25, 1805 ) was an Irish barrister and politician.

Clotworthy Rowley was the third son of Admiral Sir William Rowley and his wife Arabella. He attended Trinity Hall , a college at the University of Cambridge , and was subsequently accepted into the Inner Temple . Later he was appointed barrister. On May 5, 1763, he married Letitia Campbell. The marriage produced four sons and one daughter.

From 1771 until the dissolution of Parliament in 1800 he represented the constituency of Downpatrick in the Irish House of Commons , the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland . Originally in the opposition for a few years, he supported the Irish government from 1795. However, that did not prevent him from voting against the Union. His seat in the British House of Commons , although it was due to him since the beginning of 1801, he never took up because he received the office of Commissioner of Union compensations in February 1801 . However, this was incompatible with a parliamentary seat.

Clotworthy Rowley died on March 25, 1805 at the age of 74. While his son William also became a barrister, his sons Josias and Samuel Campbell, like their grandfather, pursued careers in the Royal Navy . All three in turn occupied parliamentary seats in the course of their lives.

Web links

• R. Thorne [Ed.]: Entry on Clotworthy Rowley in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 (1986)