What is "sowerby"

Sowerby was a county constituency centred on the village of Sowerby in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Sowerby may refer to:

Sowerby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Sowerby family, a British family of naturalists and artists
  • Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885–1954), British explorer in China
  • Charlotte Caroline Sowerby (1820–1865), British natural history illustrator
  • George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788–1854), British malacologist
  • George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812–1884), British malacologist
  • George Brettingham Sowerby III (1843–1921), British malacologist
  • James Sowerby (1757–1822), British zoologist and painter
  • James Sowerby (1815–1834), British botanist
  • James de Carle Sowerby (1787–1871), English scientist and artist
  • John Edward Sowerby (1825–1870), artist and publisher
• E. Millicent Sowerby (1883–1977), English bibliographer
• Francis Sowerby Macaulay, British mathematician
• Fred Sowerby (born 1948), Antigua and Barbuda sprinter
• Githa Sowerby (1876–1970), English playwright
• John George Sowerby (1850–1914), English painter and illustrator
• Leo Sowerby (1895–1968), twentieth-century American composer
• Millicent Sowerby (1878–1967), English painter and illustrator

Kenneth John Sowerby (1953-) Australian architect