Rafe Grenville Rowley-Conwy
Rear-Admiral Rafe Grenville Rowley-Conwy, CMG (11 September 1875 - 4 April 1951), was a Royal Navy officer and Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire.
Biography
Rowley-Conwy was the second son of Captain Conwy Granville Hercules Rowley (1841-1900), by his wife Marian Harford. His father, who later took the surname Rowley-Conwy, was a son of Colonel the Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley (1812-1887), an MP for Harwich and a younger son of the 1st Baron Langford.
He was confirmed as a second lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 14 December 1894,[1] and later promoted to Lieutenant. On 13 May 1902 he was appointed to the cruiser HMS Medusa, as First and Gunnery lieutenant.[2] He was promoted to Commander on 22 July 1911,[3] and to Captain on 31 December 1916.[4] In November 1914 he was appointed in command of the destroyer HMS Mentor. He was in command of a destroyer flotilla during the latter part of the First World War, and was appointed captain of the light cruiser HMS Curacoa in 1921. He retired as Rear-Admiral.
Rowley-Conwy was High Sheriff of Flintshire in 1929, and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire on 3 July 1935,[5] serving as such until his death in April 1951.
Rowley-Conwy owned the Bodrhyddan estate in Rhuddlan. He never married, and the estate was inherited by his nephew Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, who later succeeded a second cousin as Baron Langford.
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26729. p. 2201. 10 April 1896.
- ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36758). London. 3 May 1902. p. 14.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 28505. p. 4596. 16 June 1911.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29886. p. 12. 29 December 1916.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 34167. p. 3620. 4 June 1935.
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| Preceded by Henry Gladstone, Baron Gladstone of Hawarden |
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire 1935–1951 |
Succeeded by Hugh Salusbury Kynaston Mainwaring |