Rear-Admiral Rafe Grenville Rowley-Conwy, CMG (11 September 1875 – 4 April 1951), was a Royal Navy officer and Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire.

Biography

Personal life

Rowley-Conwy was the second son of Captain Conwy Granville Hercules Rowley (1841-1900), by his wife Marian Harford. His father, who later took the surname Rowley-Conwy, was a son of Colonel the Hon. Richard Rowley (1812-1887), an MP for Harwich and a younger son of the 1st Baron Langford.

Rowley-Conwy owned the Bodrhyddan estate in Rhuddlan. He never married, and the estate was inherited by his nephew Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, who later succeeded a second cousin as Baron Langford.

Military Career

He was confirmed as a second lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 14 December 1894,^[1] and later promoted to Lieutenant. On 13 May 1902 he was appointed to the cruiser HMS Medusa, as First and Gunnery lieutenant.^[2] He was promoted to Commander on 22 July 1911,^[3] and to Captain on 31 December 1916.^[4] In November 1914 he was appointed in command of the destroyer HMS Mentor. He was in command of the 15th Destroyer Flotilla from November, 1917 to 1 March 1919. Appointed Captain (D), 3rd Destroyer Flotilla from 7 July 1919 to 7 July 1921. During the latter part of the First World War, and was appointed captain of the light cruiser HMS Curacoa in 1921. He retired as Rear-Admiral.

Later life

Rowley-Conwy was High Sheriff of Flintshire in 1929, and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire on 3 July 1935,^[5] serving as such until his death in April 1951.