Guy Rowson

Guy Rowson (1883 - 16 November 1937) 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, and re-elected in 1935, until his death in 1937. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Labour leader of the opposition, Clement Attlee. In 1936, he was responsible for the introduction of the Annual Holiday Bill, which regulated holiday pay for workers.

Mining Rowson became a coal miner at age 12. In 1923, he became a Miners' Agent in the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation.

Quotes In his memoires, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee wrote: "I appointed a Lancashire miner, Guy Rowson, as my Parliamentary Private Secretary, but his early death cut short a promising career."

Personal Born in 1883 in Ellenbrook, near Worsley in Lancashire, he was the son of a coal miner, Joseph Rowson and his wife Mary.