Sir Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt, KCSI, PC (20 July 1862 – 1 March 1945) was a British barrister and judge, remembered in part for his presidency of the sedition committee that bore his name, created in 1918 by the imperial government to subjugate and control the independence movement in British India, especially Bengal and the Punjab.

Fred's daughter Mary wrote a memoir of the five generations, A Family in Egypt, which was published in 1956, a few years after the revolution which marked the end of British rule in the country.

[1] The Rowlatt children grew up in Alexandria, living above the Bank building most of the year, and decamping to the nearby beach of Ramleh during the hottest months, as his mother's family had done for generations.

When William Danckwerts took silk in 1900, the post of junior counsel to the Inland Revenue fell vacant and Finlay recommended Rowlatt.

Rowlatt was appointed Recorder of Windsor and, in 1912, a judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court, where among other matters he heard cases in the Revenue List.

[citation needed] In 1918 he chaired the inquiry into alleged "Criminal conspiracies connected with revolutionary movements in India", the Rowlatt Committee.

[citation needed] As a result, he often in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, where his vote was crucial in the Labour Conventions Reference, which ended the Canadian "New Deal".

[citation needed] He chaired the Royal Commission on Betting (1932–33) and during World War II sat as chairman of the General Claims Tribunal.