Mr Harrowell founded his original practice in York over 100 years ago. Since then Harrowells has grown into a major regional law firm.
Herbert Harrowell set up his original practice in 1908 – the same year that Henry Ford’s first model T automobile was produced. In 1926 Mr Harrowell was joined by Norris M Brown and over the next four decades the partnership steadily expanded with Kenneth Bloor, Raymond Fox, Dick Stanley and John Yeomans successively becoming partners.
Following the firm’s move from Parliament Street to the St Saviourgate office in 1974, the expansion of the practice began in earnest. Over the ensuing thirty years, Harrowells broadened its expertise beyond its property and private client focus to include advice on commercial law and different aspects of litigation.
The merger, in 1985, of Harrowells with Shaftoes (itself founded in the 1860s) and the more recent merger of Harrowell Shaftoe with Ashworth Tetlow were important steps towards the creation of what is now a major regional practice. 2008 saw the modernisation of the firm’s overall corporate structure and its conversion from a traditional partnership to a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and the renaming of the firm, for the second time in its long history, as Harrowells.
