Anthony Rowe (MP)

Anthony Rowe (after 1641 – 9 September 1704) was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of England for several periods between 1689 and 1701.

[2] In the 1670s, Rowe became an associate of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and served as his adjutant during the Flanders campaign of 1678.

Rowe was briefly arrested during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, but was soon released, and in March 1688 he was granted a general pardon by James II.

The same year, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Penryn, appointed Clerk of the Green Cloth in the household of William III, and made a justice of the peace for Middlesex.

During the Convention Parliament, he compiled and published a blacklist of those MPs who had voted that James II had not left the throne vacant during the Revolution, with the aim of influencing the subsequent election.

Arms of Roe/Rowe of Muswell Hill, Middlesex: Gules, a quatrefoil or [ 1 ]
Ledger stone of Mary Rowe (Viscountess Hillsborough), eldest daughter and co-heiress of Anthony Rowe, All Saints' Church, Hillesden