Joshua Francis Rowley,

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, JP, DCL (31 December 1920 – 21 February 1997), was a soldier and landowner, and

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from 1978 to 1994.

Personal life

He was the son of Colonel Sir Charles Rowley, 6th Baronet. He was educated at

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and

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. He served in the

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from 1940 to 1946. In 1959 he married The Hon. Celia Ella Vere Monckton (1925-1997), 2nd daughter of the 8th Viscount Galway: they had one daughter, Susan Emily (who married the art expert Robert Holden ) and two grandchildren. Lady Rowley served as a magistrate and a lady in waiting to Princess Alexandra. On 19 January 1962 he inherited the

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from his father. He died in 1997 and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary in Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk. Sir Joshua Francis Rowley grave

Public service

Rowley was Deputy Secretary of the

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from 1950 to 1955. He served as Chairman of West Suffolk County Council from 1971 to 1974; and of Suffolk County Council from 1976 to 1978. He was successively Deputy Lieutenant, High Sheriff, and

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of Suffolk before his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant. He was appointed a JP in 1978 and Honorary DCL by

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in 1991.‘ROWLEY, Sir Joshua Francis’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowley, Joshua, 7th Baronet 1920 births People educated at Eton College Members of West Suffolk County Council Members of Suffolk County Council Lord-Lieutenants of Suffolk Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Grenadier Guards officers Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain 1997 deaths