• Name: Rowan, Archibald Hamilton
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 1  May  1751
• Death Date: 1  November  1834
• Occupation: Irish nationalist
• Occupation: landowner

According both to Locke and to St Clair, Rowan had been on friendly terms with Wollstonecraft in Paris. See also, from the Abinger papers, the letter from Wollstonecraft to Rowan (12 September 1796) and from Rowan to Wollstonecraft (15 September 1797). Godwin first mentions him 24 March 1793: 'Dine at H. Tooke’s , with Zenobio, Sempil, Gawler, Knight, Harwood, Hamilton Rowan, Thelwal{,} Sharpe and Dyson'. In Gentleman Radical, Bewley notes: '[At Horne Tooke's] Godwin also encountered Archibald Hamilton Rowan, a huge, vain, flamboyant Anglo-Irish landowner who had joined the United Irishmen and was making a great noise in Dublin over their campaign for electoral reform'. (p. 120) Rowan is in prison or exile from 1794 until 1803.

Later entries, which have been abbreviated to H Rowan then simply Rowan, refer to the same person. For example 'write to Rowan' on 21 May 1827 matches the letter in the Abinger papers, which is addressed to A H Rowan, Esq.

A note from Rowan to Godwin of 27 September 1803 talks of poor Emmet. There is a long letter to Godwin (currently attributed to Blackwood but from Rowan), written 5 November 1806, describing settling back in Ireland in 1806, when he was permitted to return to ireland after his father's death.

Godwin records his death.

• MS. Abinger c. 52, fols. 3r-v: April 1795.
• MS. Abinger c. 52, fols. 4v: 26 January 1796.
• MS. Abinger c. 41, fols. 7-8: 15 September 1797.
• MS. Abinger c. 52, fols. 3v-4r: 12 September 1796.
• MS. Abinger c. 8, fols. 40-1: 27 September 1803.
• MS. Abinger b. 4, fols. 102-3: 8 March 1805.
• MS Abinger c. 10 fols 13-14: 5 Nov. 1806
• MS. Abinger c. 20, fol. 6: 21 May 1827.
• DNB.
• St Clair.
• Locke.
• David and Christina Bewley, Gentleman radical: a life of John Horne Tooke, 1736–1812 (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1998), pp. 120-1.

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