Identifier: unitedirishmenth02madd_0 (find matches)
Title: The United Irishmen : their lives and times, with several additional memoirs, and authentic documents, heretofore unpublished, the whole matter newly arranged and revised
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886
Subjects: United Irishmen
Publisher: Dublin : James Duffy Baltimore : J. Murphy
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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Rowan was Gawen Hamiltonof Killyleagh. His mother was the only daughter of WilliamRowan, and widow of Tichborne Aston, Esq., of Beaulieu, nearDrogheda, in the county of Louth—a lady also of Scotch descent,whose family had settled in Ireland in the reign of James I.Gawen Hamilton and his lady having removed to London, theireldest child, A. H. Rowan, was born there the 12th of May,1757. He spent some time at a preparatory school in London, andwas then sent to Westminster School, and in due time to Cam-bridge, where he became intimately acquainted with the Rev.John Jebb, a fellow of Peterhouse College, whose religious andpolitical sentiments interfering with his profession in the churchand position in the university, he resigned his living and aban-doned his college, rather than act a lie weekly in the presence ofthe God of truth. In the winter succeeding his matriculation,A. H. Rowan made a tour into Holland, accompanied by hisfellow-students, Sir John Borlase Warren and Mr. Newcomb.
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ROWANS EARLY CAREER. 175 On his return he was prevailed on to accompany to America,Lord Charles Montague, who had been appointed Governor ofSouth Carolina, invested with the character of his Lordships pri-vate secretary. He arrived there during the bickerings that weregoing on between England and her colonies. After three monthssojourn in Charleston, he returned to England, being then twenty-four years of age. A fellow-student, Mr. Topham, who at thistime edited a paper called the World, gave a series of charactersof young men about town who had figured at Westminster orEton, and amongst them is to be found a very graphic portrai-ture of the subject of this memoir. About this time (says Rowan in his autobiography), Mr.Topham, who had been my contemporary at Cambridge, and whowas then the editor of the World, a new and fashionable paper,gave a series of characters of the young men who then figuredabout London, and who had been educated at Westminster orEton schools. The following appea

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