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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 (died 1947) and together had one daughter. He died in 1941 in an accident at the Cannon Hill Queensland Meat Industry Board while he was supervising the unloading of stock from railway wagons. He fell between the platform and a moving train and died in the Brisbane General Hospital that night. 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.

References

1. ^ "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
2. Family history research — Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
3. "CRUSHED AND KILLED BY TRAIN". The Courier-mail. No. 2425. Queensland, Australia. 12 June 1941. p. 1. Retrieved 12 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "Advertising". The Courier-mail. No. 2426. Queensland, Australia. 13 June 1941. p. 16. Retrieved 12 April 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

• Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
• 1868 births
• 1941 deaths
• Burials at South Brisbane Cemetery
• Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland
• Colony of Queensland people
• Railway accident deaths in Australia
• Accidental deaths in Queensland