Colin Rowe (politician)

Colin Davies Rowe (12 April 1911 – 2 August 1970) was a lawyer and politician in South Australia.

[1] He was born the eldest son Mr and Mrs. L. G. Rowe of "Rockleigh", Sandilands, about 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Ardrossan, and educated at Kadina High School and King's College, Adelaide, where he was head prefect for two consecutive years.

[2] He studied law at the University of Adelaide, gaining his LLB in 1934, and was admitted to the bar in December 1934 at the same ceremony as Roma Mitchell.

[3] He worked as a lawyer at Ardrossan, then set up in practice at Maitland in 1942.

[2] In 1948 he was president of the Yorke Peninsula branch of the Liberal and Country League, and in November 1948 was nominated by them, unopposed, to a Midland district seat in the Legislative Council made vacant by the death of Douglas Peel Gordon.