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

1. The London Gazette: no. 26729. p. 2201. 10 April 1896.
2. "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Saturday, 3 May 1902. (36758), p. 14.
3. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 28505. p. 4596. 16 June 1911.
4. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29886. p. 12. 29 December 1916.
5. The London Gazette: no. 34167. p. 3620. 4 June 1935.

External links

• Bodrhyddan Hall website