Robert Rowan (priest)

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

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

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]}