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]

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]}