William Carpenter Rowe

Sir William Carpenter Rowe

10th Chief Justice of Ceylon
In office 1857–1859
Appointed by	Henry George Ward
Preceded by	William Ogle Carr
Succeeded by	Edward Shepherd Creasy
Personal details
Died	9 January 1860

Sir William Carpenter Rowe (died 9 January 1860) was the tenth Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was appointed in 1857 succeeding William Ogle Carr and was Chief Justice until 1859. He was succeeded by Edward Shepherd Creasy.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "Overview". Judicial Service Commission Secretariat. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
↑ John Ferguson (1996) [1887]. Ceylon in the Jubilee Year (Repr. ed.). Asian Educational Services. p. 254. ISBN 978-81-206-0963-1. Retrieved 7 January 2013.

Legal offices
Preceded by William Ogle Carr	Chief Justice of Ceylon 1857-1859	Succeeded by Edward Shepherd Creasy

Chief Justices of Sri Lanka

Carrington Lushington Johnston Giffard Ottley Marshall Norris Oliphant Carr Rowe Creasy Hackett Phear Cayley de Wet Burnside Bonser Layard Hutchinson Lascelles Renton Bertram Branch Fisher Macdonell Abrahams Howard Wijewardena Jayetileke Rose Basnayake Sansoni Fernando Silva Tennekoon Samarakoon Sharvananda Ranasinghe Thambiah de Silva Silva de Silva Bandaranayake Peiris Sripavan

The Rowe court (1856–1859)

1856–1858	Sterling Temple*

1858–1859	Sterling Temple

Acting Chief justice, *Acting Puisne Judge

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