Sir Joshua Rowe (1799 – 30 October 1874) was an English barrister and judge, Chief Justice of Jamaica from 1832 to c. 1856.Cundall, Frank. (1915) Historic Jamaica. London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii-xix.
Rowe was the son of Joshua Rowe of Torpoint. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1818, and called to the bar in 1824. He was a plantation owner in Jamaica, from 1839, after the abolition of slavery there.
Family Rowe married in 1823 Frances Ann Bate, daughter of James Bate of Exeter.
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