The new president of Bideford and District Chamber of Trade,

Mr Ronald A Rowed, has been in business with his father, Mr A E Rowed, as sports outfitters, radio and electrical dealers and contractors in Bridgeland Street, since 1926. His father commenced business there two years earlier and Mr R A Rowed was a wireless operator in the Merchant Navy during the interval.

Mr Rowed, who has been a member of the Chamber for twenty years, is 42. He is married and has two children and his home is at West Yelland. In sport he is particularly keen on hockey and is vice-captain of Bideford Hockey Club. In younger days he was a member of Mr Norman Chope’s concert party which was well known and popular in the town and district.

During the war Mr Rowed served in the RAF for four and a half years, being an instructor in wireless mechanics at Cranwell No. 1 Signal School, and London.

He is a member of Bideford Regatta Committee and recently he was sworn in as a member of Devon Special Constabulary.

Gazette article dated 3 March 1950