John Rowlatt was the third son of
Sidney Rowlatt, a High Court judge who presided over the
a committee regarding British India. lost a leg, and was awarded the
Military Cross. After the war, he returned to Christ Church, graduating with a
BA in
classics in 1921. He
devilled (trained under) Sir
Maurice Gwyer while he was drafting the
Government of India Act 1935, and then travelled to India two years later to help with the establishment of the federation under the Act. On his return, he drafted (as a Parliamentary Counsel he could now draft alone) acts concerning
British India from then on. Rowlatt was appointed a Knight Commander of the
Order of the Indian Empire in 1947, and of the
Order of the Bath in 1954. ==References==