Richard Bow

Richard Rowland Bow (3 August 1868 – 11 June 1941) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography Bow was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of David Bow and his wife Margaret Theresa (née Berry). By 1894 he was a butcher in Longreach 1894 and a stock inspector at the Brisbane abattoir. He then became an inspector at the abattoir.

On 22 June 1901 Bow married Elizabeth Ann Baker and together had one daughter. His funeral proceeded from the funeral chapel of K.M. Smith in Fortitude Valley to the South Brisbane Cemetery.

Public life Bow was involved in the Barcaldine Strike Camp during the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and was a secretary of the Australian Workers' Union in Central Queensland from 1910 until 1928.

In 1928 he won the by-election held to replace John Payne who had died earlier in the year. He held the seat until it was abolished before the 1932 state election whereupon he retired from politics.