Guy Rowson (1883 - 16 November 1937) was a British Labour Party politician who served as the

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(MP) for

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in Lancashire. He was elected in 1929, defeated in 1931, Charles Roger Dod, Robert Phipps Dod, ''Dod's parliamentary companion'', Publisher Dod's Parliamentary Companion, ltd., 1936.
page 423
and re-elected in 1935, until his death in 1937. He was

Parliamentary Private Secretary A Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) is a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom who acts as an unpaid assistant to a minister or shadow minister. They are selected from backbench MPs as the 'eyes and ears' of the minister in the H ...

to the then Labour leader of the opposition,

Clement Attlee Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was Deputy Prime Mini ...

. In 1936, he was responsible for the introduction of the Annual Holiday Bill, which regulated holiday pay for workers.

Mining

Rowson became a coal miner at age 12.Obituary
''The Colliery Guardian'', 19 Nov 1937, Page 976, Column 2 In 1923, he became a Miners' Agent in the

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Other activities

In 1907 he joined the

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, and in 1910 he stood as a

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for the Tyldesley Urban District Council. where he was defeated, but elected in 1919, where he served until 1925.

Quotes

In his memoires, British Prime Minister

wrote: :"I appointed a Lancashire miner, Guy Rowson, as my Parliamentary Private Secretary, but his early death cut short a promising career."

Personal

Born in 1883 in Ellenbrook, near

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, he was the son of a coal miner, Joseph Rowson and his wife Mary.England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Guy Rowson
at familysearch.org

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowson, Guy 1883 births 1937 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1935–1945 People from Walkden Councillors in Lancashire Labour Party (UK) councillors