George Rowley

Who was George Rowley?

George Rowley was Dean and Master of University College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

Rowley was educated at Abingdon School in Abingdon, south of Oxford.

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. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society on 14 November 1811.