John Rowlatt

Sir John Rowlatt, KCB, KCIE, MC, QC (19 November 1898 – 4 July 1956) was a British lawyer who served as First Parliamentary Counsel.

Biography John Rowlatt was the third son of Sidney Rowlatt, a High Court judge who presided over the a committee regarding British India. lost a leg, and was awarded the Military Cross.

After the war, he returned to Christ Church, graduating with a BA in classics in 1921.

He devilled (trained under) Sir Maurice Gwyer while he was drafting the Government of India Act 1935, and then travelled to India two years later to help with the establishment of the federation under the Act. On his return, he drafted (as a Parliamentary Counsel he could now draft alone) acts concerning British India from then on.

Rowlatt was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1947, and of the Order of the Bath in 1954.