About John Robert Fow
Lived 1869 – 1943 (aged 73–74). John Robert Fow was a New Zealand politician.
John Robert Fow (1869 – 18 September 1943) was Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand for four terms: June 1916 to May 1917, August 1918 to May 1919, May 1920 to May 1931, and May 1933 to May 1938.
Fow was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, England in 1869 and emigrated to New Zealand with his parents when he was a boy. He worked as a sawmiller, farrier and blacksmith, carriage maker and auctioneer, before going into the furniture business.
In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal. He died at his home in Hamilton in 1943.
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John Robert Fow was born in 1869.
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John Robert Fow died on 18 September 1943.
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