Robert Rowan

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The Venerable
Robert Rowan
Dean of Ardfert
Church Church of Ireland
Diocese Diocese of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe
In office 1924 to 1946
Orders
Ordination 1897
Personal details
Birth name Robert Philip Rowan
Born (1870-09-10)10 September 1870
Died 19 June 1946(1946-06-19) (aged 75)
Denomination Anglicism
Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin

Robert Philip Rowan (10 September 1870 – 19 June 1946) was an Irish Anglican priest. He was Dean of Ardfert from 1924 until 1946.[1]

Rowan was educated at Trinity College, Dublin[2] and ordained in 1897. He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies at Tralee and Wexford.[3] He was a chaplain to the forces at Curragh and Shorncliffe then senior curate at St John's Lowestoft. After incumbencies in Castleisland, Kenmare and Killarney he was elevated to the Deanery. He was Archdeacon of Ardfert and Aghadoe and Canon of Effin from 1938 to 1943.

References

  1. 'ROWAN, Ven. Robert Philip', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 31 July 2013
  2. 'DUBLIN UNIVERSITY' The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Thursday, October 29, 1891; Issue 23812
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
Religious titles
Preceded by
George Edmund Power
Dean of Ardfert
1924–1946
Succeeded by
Charles Loftus Haines
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