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Sir Gwilym Rowlands CBE JP (2 December 1878 – 16 January 1949) was a Welsh Conservative Party politician. Gwilym was the son of Rowland Rowlands, who was manager of the Penygraig Colliery Company in the Rhondda. He was educated at Penygraig Board School and Health School, and became a member of Rhondda Urban District Council from 1913 to 1919 and from 1922 to 1929. Rowlands was unsuccessful again at Caerphilly in 1923 and 1924, and at Pontypool 1929, but finally won a seat at the 1935 general election in Flintshire. He stood down from Parliament at the 1945 general election.