George Rowley (academic)

George Rowley (4 April 1782 – 5 October 1836) was Dean and Master of University College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.[1]

George Rowley
Stained glass by Charles Eamer Kempe in the Grundy Library at Abingdon School, containing the name of George Rowley
Born	4 April 1782
Died	5 October 1836 (aged 54)

Education

Rowley was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon-on-Thames (now Abingdon School).[2]

Career

George Rowley was the Dean of University College in the early 19th century, at the time of Percy Bysshe Shelley's expulsion for writing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism in 1811. He became Master of University College from 1821 to 1836 and later Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1832 to 1836.[2] He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society on 14 November 1811.[3]

See also

• List of Old Abingdonians

References

1. Darwall-Smith, Robin (2008). "George Rowley and Travers Twiss: 1821–1836". A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press. pp. 343–351. ISBN 978-0-19-928429-0.
2. Preston, Arthur Edwin (1929). St. Nicholas Abingdon and Other Papers. Oxford University Press. p. 369.
3. "List of Fellows of the Royal Society, 1660 – 2007: K – Z". Royal Society, Library and Information Services.