Background
The son of Lemuel Ezra Prowse and Francis J. Stanley, he was born and educated in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
The son of Lemuel Ezra Prowse and Francis J. Stanley, he was born and educated in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
He was proprietor and president of Prowse Brothers Limited. in Charlottetown. Active in local politics, he was a councillor on Charlottetown City Council for eight years and served as the 26th mayor from 1930 to 1932. A Liberal, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island representing the Charlottetown Common and Royalty District in Queens County, first in the 1935 general election and again in 1943.
In 1950 he was appointed lieutenant governor of the island and served for eight years.