Overview
Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley (1812 – 11 November 1887) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Family
Rowley was the son of Clotworthy Rowley, 1st Baron Langford, and Frances Rowley. He married Charlotte Shipley, daughter of William Shipley and Charlotte Williams-Wynn on 24 June 1835. Together, they had three children:
Eva Rowley (died 1904)
Gwenwydd Frances Rowley (–1892)
Conwy Greville Hercules Rowley-Conwy (1841–1900)
After Charlotte died in 1871, Rowley remarried to Alice Henrietta Berners, daughter of Hugh Berners and Julia Alice Ashton, on 9 July 1872.
Political career
He was elected MP for Harwich at a by-election in 1860 but did not seek re-election in 1865.
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