Joshua Rowe

For the 19th-century antiquarian and naturalist, see Joshua Brooking Rowe.

Sir Joshua Rowe (1799 – 30 October 1874) was an English barrister and judge, Chief Justice of Jamaica from 1832 to c. 1856.[1][2][3]

Rowe was the son of Joshua Rowe of Torpoint.[3] He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1818, and called to the bar in 1824.[4] He was a plantation owner in Jamaica, from 1839, after the abolition of slavery there.[5]

Family

Rowe married in 1823 Frances Ann Bate, daughter of James Bate of Exeter.[3]

References

  1. ^ Cundall, Frank. (1915) Historic Jamaica. London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii-xix.
  2. ^ "Chapter 6. The east windows".
  3. ^ a b c Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. p. 846.
  4. ^ "Rowe, Joshua". Inner Temple Collections.
  5. ^ "The Pinnacle, Jamaica, St Catherine, Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk.
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