Transcript

Of

Charles Edward Rowe [Obituary]

Trans. Devon. Assoc.  vol. 46, (1914), p. 44.

by

Maxwell Adams (Ed.)

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1914 Tavistock meeting. Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History has a page on Mr Rowe of Rowe Brothers & Co. It records him in 1881 living at 20 Howell Road, Exeter: aged 45, Lead Merchant, with his wife Emily and four children. Between 1902-3 he was Mayor of Exeter, and in 1911 was living at Loma Loma, Heavitree Road, Exeter, aged 75 Lead Manufacturer and employer, with his daughter Edith Fanny (his Association obituary states that he died aged 65) at Loma Loma in Heavitree. The property is currently the company headquarters of Braxton Reynolds Ltd., a scientific and technical business. The obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Mr. Rowe, who joined the Association in 1912, was a native of St. Just in Cornwall, and took an active part in the commercial and civic life of Exeter, in which city he settled in 1851. He was the head of the well-known lead and glass firm of Rowe Brothers of Exeter, with agencies in several continental cities, a Justice of the Peace, and former Mayor of Exeter. He died on 11 January, 1914, at the age of sixty-five.