Robert Philip Rowan (10 September 1870 – 19 June 1946) was an Irish Anglican priest. He was Dean of Ardfert from 1924 until 1946.'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
Rowan was educated at Trinity College, Dublin'DUBLIN UNIVERSITY' The Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Thursday, 29 October 1891; Issue 23812 and ordained in 1897. He began his ecclesiastical career with curacies at Tralee and Wexford.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 London: Oxford University Press, 1929 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"The Church of Ireland in County Kerry" Murphy, J.A. p243: Cork, Lulu, 2016 he was elevated to the Deanery. He was Archdeacon of Ardfert and Aghadoe and Canon of Effin from 1938 to 1943.
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