Officers

Tony is a Chartered Accountant and has recently retired as Chairman of Rowleys, having originally joined the firm in 1971 as an articled clerk. Tony’s connection to the textile trade goes back many years, when Rowleys practice was strongly based on hosiery clients situated mainly in the Leicester and Hinckley areas of the county. He was also until recently the Non-Executive Chairman of Rowley Turton (IFA) Ltd, Chartered Financial Planners. 

Born in Leicester in 1954, Tony was educated at Alderman Newton’s Grammar School in the city, and is now a Fellow and lifetime member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). He was formally a member of the Corporate Finance Faculty of the ICAEW and the Institute of Directors, and was also Head of Legal Practice at Rowleys. In addition he was on the national Probate Committee of the ICAEW for over 6 years.

Tony joined The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters in 2007 being admitted to the Court in 2012. He has been until recently chairing the company’s management committee for their 26 Almshouses in Oadby, Leicestershire for retired hosiery workers.

Tony has been the Finance Director of the Leicester Charity Organisation Society for over 20 years, Governor of the Children’s Hospital School in Leicester, is a past President of the Rotary Club of Leicester and past Captain of both Leicestershire Lawn Tennis Club and The Leicestershire Golf Club. He has also just stood down as the Lawn Tennis Association Councillor for the county of Leicestershire after 11 years.

Tony is married to Mary and they have two children, Sarah and Andrew, and three grandchildren. In his youth, he was a keen train spotter, but still with a penchant for steam engines, and he spends his leisure time walking, playing golf (member of both The Leicestershire and Hunstanton golf clubs) and tennis, currently appearing for the Leicestershire over 65 county team. He is also a season ticket holder at both the Leicester Tigers and Leicestershire County Cricket Club and an active member of The Leicester Archaeological & Historical Society.