ROWELL, ---; b.; adm.; left 1656 (School Lists 1656, first two quarters).
ROWE, NICHOLAS, son of John Rowe, Lanerton, Devon, Serjeant at Law, and Elizabeth, dau. of Jasper Edwards (qv); bapt. 30 Jun 1674; adm.; KS 1688; left 1691; adm. Middle Temple 4 Aug 1691, called to bar 22 May 1696; abandoned law for writing for the stage; his play Ambitious Stepmother was performed at Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1700, Tamerlane in 1702 and The Fair Penitent in 1703; edited Shakespeare’s works, 1709; Under-Secretary to Secretary of State for Scotland Feb 1709 – Jul 1711; Poet Laureate from 1 Aug 1715; Secretary of Presentations, Chancery, from 5 May 1718; his verse translation of Lucan’s Pharsalia was published just after his death; a collected edition of his plays and occasional poems appeared in 1727; m. 1st, Antonia, dau. of Anthony Parsons, Auditor of the Revenue; m. 2nd, 1717 Anne, dau. of Joseph Devenish, Buckham, Dorset; d. 6 Dec 1718. Buried Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
ROWE, JACOB, son of Isaac Rowe, Fowey, Cornwall; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1741/2; KS 1746; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Apr 1748, scholar 14 Apr 1749; BA 1752; MA 1755; ordained deacon (Ely) 9 Jun 1753, priest (London) 23 Dec 1754; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1756; Curate, Norton and Luddenham, Kent 1762-4, when dismissed as being “drunken and mad”. [Rev. Jacob Rowe, Topsham, Devon, will PCC 28 Jun 1765, 235]
ROW, CHEYNEY; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1641; KS in 1644 (Chapter Muniments 43114); m. 28 Jul 1664 Elizabeth Stone (IGI); d. 1699 (will proved PCC 12 Dec 1699, he of Higham Hill, Essex, name spelled Cheyney Rowe).
ROUSE, JAMES, son of John Rouse, Wokingham, Berkshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Cleighorne, Westminster, patentee in reversion of office of Warden of Court of High Commission; b.; at school (aged 14) in 1655 (Chapter Muniments 43112); of Wokingham, Berks.; m.
ROUSE, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715, 1716.
ROUS, HON. WILLIAM RUFUS, son of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke (qv), and his second wife; b. 1 Aug 1796; adm.; left 1809; RMC Great Marlow; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 17 Dec 1812; Lieut. and Capt., 18 Nov 1819; Capt., 55th Foot 19 Feb 1823; half-pay, 24 Apr 1823; DL JP [check county]; m. 27 Dec 1822 Louisa, youngest dau. of James Hatch, Claybury Hall, Essex; d. 2 Mar 1875.
ROUS, JOHN, 1ST EARL OF STRADBROKE, only son of Sir John Rous, Bart., MP, and Judith, dau. of John Bedingfield, Beeston, Norfolk; b. 30 May 1750; in school lists 1764; lerft 1767; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 May 1768; MA 1771; succ. father as 6th baronet 31 Oct 1771; Grand Tour (Italy) 1772-3; MP Suffolk 1780-96; created Baron Rous 14 Jun 1796 and Earl of Stradbroke 18 Jul 1821; DL Suffolk 1787; m. 1st, Jan 1788 Frances Juliana, dau. of Edward Warter Wilson, Bilboa, co. Limerick; m. 2nd, 23 Feb 1792 Charlotte Maria, dau. of Abraham Whittaker, Stratford, Essex; d. 17 Aug 1827.
ROUS, JOHN EDWARD CORNWALLIS, 2ND EARL OF STRADBROKE, eldest son of John Rous, 1st Earl of Stadbroke (qv), and his second wife; b. 13 Feb 1794; adm.; left 1808; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 28 Jun 1810; Lieut. and Capt., 4 May 1814; Capt., 93rd Foot 6 Nov 1817; half-pay, Nova Scotia Fencibles 15 Jan 1818; retd. 1821; served in Peninsular War; styled Viscount Dunwich 1821-7; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Stradbroke 17 Aug 1827; took Conservative whip, House of Lords; Lord Lieut., Suffolk, from 19 Jan 1844; Vice-Adm., Coast of Suffolk, from 1846; m. 26 May 1857 Augusta, widow of Col. Henry Frederick Bonham, 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars), and second dau. of Rev. Sir Christopher Musgrave, Bart.; d. 27 Jan 1886.