About John Martin Rowlands
Lived 1925 – 2004 (aged 79). John Martin Rowlands was a British justice of the peace.
John Martin Rowlands, CBE (; 20 July 1925 – 19 August 2004) was a British civil servant working in the Hong Kong government from 1952 to 1985. He was the Secretary for the Civil Service from 1978 to 1985 and official member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1978 to 1984.
Rowlands was born in London on 20 July 1925 and graduated from the Charterhouse School and the Selwyn College, Cambridge. From 1943 to 1947, he was a Captain of the Royal Indian Artillery Field Regiment of the HQ XV Indian Corps, HQ Allied Land Forces South East Asia.
He retired in 1985 and returned to Britain. He fought against cancer in his later life and died in London on 19 August 2004, aged 79.
He married Christiane Germaine Maeleine Lacheny and had children Diane and Noelle.
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