Person record for Rowan, Archibald Hamilton and Rowan, Sarah Jane (née Dawson)

Rowan, Archibald Hamilton

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 143 times, but was not at home (N) 7 times, and was a venue (V) 77 times.

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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.

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name	Number of Meetings
Rowan, Sarah Jane (née Dawson)	78
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial)	55
Northcote, James	8
Holcroft, Thomas	5
Plunket,	5
Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier)	3
Curran, John Philpot	3
Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane (Claire)	2
Clairmont, Charles	2
Thelwall, John	2
Wolcot, Dr John (pseudonym Peter Pindar)	2
Harwood, Colonel William	2
Montagu, Basil	2
Knight, Robert	2
Gawler, Captain John Bellenden (Ker)	2
Sempill, Lord Hugh	2
Marshall, James	2
Wollstonecraft, Everina	1
Fenwick, John	1
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair)	1
Nicholson, William	1
Foulkes, John	1
Taylor, Richard	1
Bonnycastle, John	1
Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli)	1
Johnson, Joseph	1
Dawe, George	1
Holcroft, Fanny Margaretta	1
Scott, Thomas Hobbes	1
Blackwood, William	1
O'Bryen, Dennis (O'Brien)	1
Taylor, John	1
Hoare, Prince	1
Rickman, John	1
Wake,	1
Imlay, Fanny (Godwin)	1
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell	1
Lofft, Sarah (neé Watson)	1
Frost, John	1
Scott, Alexander	1
Wharton, John	1
Goring, Charles	1
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Wedgwood, Thomas	1
Burney, Dr Charles	1
	1
Banks, Thomas	1
Dyson, George	1
Sharp, William	1
Zenobio, Count Alvise	1
Gerrald, Joseph	1
Pigott, Charles	1
Lofft, Capel	1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	1
Horne Tooke, John	1
Tresham, Henry	1
Kearsley, Thomas	1
Vaughan, Felix	1
Muir, Thomas	1
Ritson, Joseph	1
Porson, Richard	1
Reveley, Maria (Gisborne) (née James)	1
Glenie, James	1
Merry, Robert	1
Turner, Thomas	1

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 101 times, and was a venue (V) 65 times.

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1803

8 September 1803 22 October 1803 (V) 25 October 1803 (V) 4 November 1803 7 November 1803 (V) 3 December 1803

1804

3 February 1804 (V) 12 February 1804 3 March 1804 (V) 8 April 1804 30 April 1804 22 May 1804 (V) 24 June 1804 24 June 1804 (V) 21 July 1804 2 September 1804 (V) 27 September 1804 (V) 8 October 1804 15 October 1804 (V) 22 October 1804 (V) 24 October 1804 (V) 6 November 1804 15 November 1804 (V) 1 December 1804 (V) 1 December 1804 10 December 1804 (V) 14 December 1804 (V) 24 December 1804 28 December 1804

1805

1 January 1805 (V) 2 January 1805 14 January 1805 (V) 26 January 1805 (V) 28 January 1805 (V) 30 January 1805 (V) 4 February 1805 (V) 8 February 1805 (V) 12 February 1805 (V) 12 February 1805 15 February 1805 (V) 16 February 1805 (V) 21 February 1805 (V) 26 February 1805 (V) 26 February 1805 5 March 1805 (V) 11 March 1805 19 March 1805 (V) 22 March 1805 (V) 21 April 1805 (V) 25 April 1805 3 May 1805 (V) 10 May 1805 (V) 19 May 1805 (V) 21 May 1805 (V) 30 May 1805 (V) 16 June 1805 20 June 1805 23 June 1805 (V) 27 June 1805 (V) 28 June 1805 4 July 1805 (V) 6 July 1805 7 July 1805 (V) 12 July 1805 (V) 14 July 1805 21 July 1805 (V) 25 July 1805 (V) 31 July 1805 (V) 4 August 1805 8 August 1805 (V) 11 August 1805 20 October 1805 23 October 1805 (V) 3 November 1805 (V) 20 November 1805 (V) 26 November 1805 (V) 27 November 1805 13 December 1805 (V) 30 December 1805 (V)

1806

7 January 1806 (V) 14 January 1806 17 January 1806 (V) 20 January 1806 (V) 12 February 1806 (V) 23 February 1806 24 February 1806 (V) 4 March 1806 (V) 15 March 1806 (V) 3 April 1806 9 April 1806 15 April 1806 (V) 23 April 1806 (V) 23 April 1806 4 May 1806 (V) 7 May 1806 13 May 1806 20 May 1806 (V) 23 May 1806 17 June 1806 19 June 1806 (V) 1 July 1806 (V)

Name: Rowan, Sarah Jane (née Dawson)
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 1764
Death Date: 1834

On 6 October 1781 Archibald Hamilton Rowan married Sarah Anne Dawson (c.1764–1834) in Paris. Rowan was in prison or exile from 1794-1803. The couple then see Godwin frequently, with there being an independent relationship with Mrs Hamilton, who often appears in company with Mary Jane. The couple had ten children.

Rowan's, Rowans, and Rowan and a number of other Rowans have all been taken to indicate Mrs Rowan's presence. We canot be sure of this but the pattern seems consistent and the calls often involve Mary Jane, who seems to have seen a lot of Mrs Rowan. There are also a number of calls on Mrs Rowan alone by Godwin and Mary Jane.

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This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name	Number of Meetings
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton	78
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial)	56
Northcote, James	8
Plunket,	4
Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier)	3
Holcroft, Thomas	3
Curran, John Philpot	3
Montagu, Basil	2
Taylor, John	1
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (née Godwin)	1
O'Bryen, Dennis (O'Brien)	1
Blackwood, William	1
Scott, Thomas Hobbes	1
Holcroft, Fanny Margaretta	1
Dawe, George	1
Perry, James (Pirie)	1
Perry, Anne (née Hull)	1
Trotter, John Bernard	1
Moore, James (Carrick-Moore)	1
Plowden, Dorothea (née Philipps)	1
Plowden, Francis Peter	1
Wake,	1
Lofft, Capel	1
Lofft, Sarah (neé Watson)	1
Wollstonecraft, Everina	1
Fenwick, John	1
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair)	1
Nicholson, William	1
Foulkes, John	1
Taylor, Richard	1
Marshall, James	1
Clairmont, Charles	1
Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane (Claire)	1
Imlay, Fanny (Godwin)	1
Boaden, James	1

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