Rowley Elliott

Rowley Elliott (23 April 1877  17 December 1944) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

He was educated at Cookstown Academy and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and became a farmer and cattle breeder. He was a member of Tyrone County Council and served as its chairman. He was a justice of the peace and Deputy Lieutenant for County Tyrone. He was the Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) in the Northern Ireland parliament for Fermanagh and Tyrone and then South Tyrone from 1925–44.

He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour from 1941–43.

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    Parliament of Northern Ireland
    Preceded by
    Arthur Griffith
    Edward Archdale
    William Coote
    Seán Milroy
    William Thomas Miller
    James Cooper
    Seán O'Mahony
    Thomas Harbison
    Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and Tyrone
    1925–1929
    With: Edward Archdale
    Alexander Donnelly
    William Thomas Miller
    Cahir Healy
    Thomas Harbison
    James Cooper
    John McHugh
    Constituency divided
    New constituency Member of Parliament for South Tyrone
    1929–1944
    Succeeded by
    William Frederick McCoy
    Political offices
    Preceded by
    William Grant
    Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour
    1941–1943
    Office abolished


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