Guy Rowson

Guy Rowson (1883 - 16 November 1937)[1] was a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Farnworth in Lancashire.

He was elected in 1929, defeated in 1931,[2] and re-elected in 1935, until his death in 1937.

[3] He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Labour leader of the opposition, Clement Attlee.

[2] In 1907 he joined the Social Democratic Federation, and in 1910 he stood as a Socialist for the Tyldesley Urban District Council.

[7] In his memoires, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee wrote: Born in 1883 in Ellenbrook, near Worsley in Lancashire, he was the son of a coal miner, Joseph Rowson [9][10] and his wife Mary.