Richard Rowland Bow (3 August 1868 – 11 June 1941) was a member of the

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Biography

Bow was born in

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, the son of David Bow and his wife Margaret Theresa (née Berry). By 1894 he was a butcher in

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1894 and a stock inspector at the

abattoir. He then became an inspector at the abattoir. On 22 June 1901 Bow married Elizabeth Ann Baker (died 1947)Family history research
— Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 10 April 2016. and together had one daughter. He died in 1941 in an accident at the Cannon Hill Queensland Meat Industry Board while he was supervising the unloading of stock from railway wagons. He fell between the platform and a moving train and died in the

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that night. His funeral proceeded from the funeral chapel of K.M. Smith in

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to the

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Public life

Bow was involved in the Barcaldine Strike Camp during the

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and was a secretary of the

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from 1910 until 1928. In 1928 he won the

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held to replace John Payne who had died earlier in the year. He held the seat until it was abolished before the 1932 state election whereupon he retired from politics.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Payne, John Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1868 births 1941 deaths Burials in South Brisbane Cemetery Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland Colony of Queensland people