1485 Rowland Hunt

Constituency  : Ludlow  1903-12  ( Liberal  Unionist ) , 1912-18  ( Conservative  with  brief  change  of  allegiance  to  the  National  Party  in  1917 )

Rowland  took  over  from  the  deceased  Robert  More  at  Ludlow.

Rowland  was  a  Catholic.

Rowland's  maiden  speech  was  in  support  of  Tariff  Reform  in  1904.

In  1907  Rowland  had  the  whip  withdrawn  for  criticising  Balfour's  leadership  on  tariff  reform.

In  1913  Rowland  wrote  to  The  Globe  saying  his  son  would  resign  his  commission  and  he  himself  was  pledged  to  fight  for  Ulster  against  Home  Rule.

Rowland  was  also  chairman  of  the  Imperial  Maritime  League.

Also  in  that  year  Rowland  joined  the  National  League  for  Clean  Government, an  organisation  with  a  distinctly  anti-semitic  bent . He  declared  at  a  meeting  "We  are   really  in  danger  of  being  ruled  by  alien  votes  and  foreign  gold...The  aliens  and  foreign  plutocrats  are  driving  out  British  blood".

In  1917  Rowland  briefly  joined  the  National  Party , a  breakaway  group  from  the  Conservatives  calling  for  a  more  vigorous  prosecution  of  the  war. By  1918  Rowland  had  thought  better  of  it  and  rejoined  the  Conservatives.

He  died  in  1943  aged  85.