Rowley Elliott was a Unionist

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 politician in Northern Ireland

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He was educated at Cookstown Academy and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution

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 and became a farmer and cattle breeder. He was a member of Tyrone County Council and served as its chairman. He was a justice of the peace

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 and Deputy Lieutenant for County Tyrone

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. He was the Unionist Member of Parliament

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 (MP) in the Northern Ireland parliament for Fermanagh and Tyrone

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 and then South Tyrone

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 from 1925-44.

He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour

Minister of Labour (Northern Ireland)

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 from 1941-43.

Sources

• http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/biographies.html