Robert Rowan (priest)

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
Born	Robert Philip Rowan (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[4] he was elevated to the Deanery. He was Archdeacon of Ardfert and Aghadoe and Canon of Effin from 1938 to 1943.^[citation needed]

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, 29 October 1891; Issue 23812
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
4. "The Church of Ireland in County Kerry" Murphy, J.A. p243: Cork, Lulu, 2016 ISBN 9781471080258

Religious titles
Preceded by George Edmund Power	Dean of Ardfert 1924–1946	Succeeded by Charles Loftus Haines