Guy Rowson (1883 - 16 November 1937) [1] 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, [2] and re-elected in 1935, until his death in 1937. [3] He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Labour leader of the opposition, Clement Attlee. [4] In 1936, he was responsible for the introduction of the Annual Holiday Bill, [5] which regulated holiday pay for workers.
Rowson became a coal miner at age 12. [6] In 1923, he became a Miners' Agent in the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation. [2]
In 1907 he joined the Social Democratic Federation, and in 1910 he stood as a Socialist for the Tyldesley Urban District Council. [6] where he was defeated, but elected in 1919, where he served until 1925. [7]
In his memoires, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee wrote:
Born in 1883 in Ellenbrook, near Worsley in Lancashire, he was the son of a coal miner, Joseph Rowson [9] [10] and his wife Mary. [11]
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