Newton Rowell Politician
Newton Wesley Rowell, PC (November 1, 1867 – November 22, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer and politician and leading lay figure in the Methodist church. Rowell led the Ontario Liberal Party from 1911 to 1917 and put forward a platform advocating temperance. Rowell's Liberals failed to oppose the Whitney government's passage of Regulation 17 which restricted the teaching of the French language in schools alienating the province's French-Canadian minority.
Personal facts
| Birth date | November 01, 1867 |
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| Date of death | November 22, 1941 |
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Office holder
| office | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Oxford North |
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| successor | John Alexander Calder |