Harold Glowrey (16 November 1893 – 28 September 1974) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to storekeeper Edward Joseph Glowrey and Margaret Danaher. He attended state school locally and worked for his father before becoming a farmer based around

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. In 1914 he was briefly employed in a

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warehouse, returning to Ouyen the following year. On 21 November 1917 he married Kathleen Frances Moran, with whom he had seven children. From 1917 to 1919 he served as assistant secretary of the

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, and from 1919 to 1925 as secretary of the Metropolitan Co-operative Milk Company. In 1927 he was elected to the

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for

, representing the Country Progressive Party. When the Country Progressives merged back into the Country Party in 1930, Glowrey refused to join his colleagues and remained an

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member. He lost his seat in 1932 and then moved to

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. From 1940 to 1965 he was chairman of the Victorian Grain Elevators Board. Glowrey died in East Camberwell in 1974.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Glowrey, Harold 1893 births 1974 deaths Country Progressive Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Independent members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians