George Rowley

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George Rowley, Dean of University College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.

George Rowley was the Dean of University College, Oxford University in the early 19th century, at the time of Percy Bysshe Shelley's expulsion for writing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. He was educated at Abingdon School and became Master of University College from 1821 to 1836 and later Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1832 to 1836. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society