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William Bickford Row (October 3, 1786 – July 29, 1865) was an
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Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
merchant, lawyer and politician. He was born in
Torquay Torquay ( ) is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay. It lies south of the county town of Exeter and east-north-east of Plymouth, on the north of Tor Bay, adjoining the neighbouring town of Paignton ...
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, the son of John Row. Row was involved in trade between England and Newfoundland as an agent for William Bickford until 1809 and then, in partnership with his brother, as an agent for John Hill and Company until that company became insolvent in 1811. In 1816, he set up his own store at St. John's but, by 1818, he had become the agent in Newfoundland for William Vallance of Devon. In 1826, Row entered practice as a lawyer. In 1834, he became the first treasurer for the Law Society of Newfoundland. He ran unsuccessfully in 1832 for the St John's seat in the Legislative Assembly in the first general election held in Newfoundland. He was elected to represent Trinity in an 1834 by-election held after
John Bingley Garland John Bingley Garland (b. Poole England, 1791; d. 1875), merchant, politician, became the first Speaker of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland in 1833. Garland, the son of George Garland Sr. and Amy Lester, was sent to Trinity, Newfoundland, ...
was named to the Executive Council. Row was reelected for Fortune Bay in 1836 and 1837. In 1841, he was named to the Executive Council. He resigned his seat in 1855 after the Council was made responsible to the legislative assembly. After he retired from politics, Row returned to England and died at
Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...
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in 1865.


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Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Row, William B 1786 births 1865 deaths People from Torquay Members of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly English emigrants to pre-Confederation Newfoundland Newfoundland Colony people Members of the Executive Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Businesspeople from Devon