Rowley Elliott

Rowley Elliott (23 April 1877 – 17 December 1944) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.[1]

Family and early life

Eldest of three sons of John R. Elliott, J.P, Coagh, his sisters were May Boyton Aiken and Agnes Witherow Bell.[2] He was educated at Cookstown Academy and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.[3] He married Annie Mary Berkeley and had one son; John Rowley Berkeley Elliott, and two daughters; Muriel and Miss A. Elliott.[4] His niece was Florence Elliott, OBE.

Career

After school he entered his father's business, Messrs. J. E. Elliott, Ltd., hardware merchants and grocers, as Postmaster Grocer and Hardware Merchant.[2][4] Following this he went to become a farmer and successful breeder of Shorthorn, cattle.[1] At the same time 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. From 1925–44 he was the Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) in the Northern Ireland parliament for Fermanagh and Tyrone and then South Tyrone.[5][3] Elliott was also a member of the Orange Institution for many years, as well as the Masonic Order.[3]

From 1941-43 he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour under the Andrews regime.[1][6]

Sources
  1. "Obituaries". Ulster Herald. 23 December 1944. p. 3.
  2. "Irish Independent". 30 September 1929. p. 10.
  3. "Obituaries". Belfast Newsletter. 18 December 1944. p. 4.
  4. "National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911". www.census.nationalarchives.ie. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  5. Ollerenshaw, Philip, 1953- (2013). Northern Ireland in the second world war : politics, economic mobilisation and society, 1939-45. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1781706206. OCLC 876349198.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. "Belfast Newsletter". 11 November 1941. p. 6.
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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