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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-weight: normal;">Sir</div><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Leslie Rowan</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath">KCB</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Royal Victorian Order">CVO</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Thomas_Leslie_Rowan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Sir_Thomas_Leslie_Rowan.jpg/220px-Sir_Thomas_Leslie_Rowan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Sir_Thomas_Leslie_Rowan.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="267" data-file-height="373" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Sir Thomas Leslie Rowan in 1949</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Principal_Private_Secretary_to_the_Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister">Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1945–1947</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Churchill_war_ministry" title="Churchill war ministry">Winston Churchill</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Attlee_ministry" title="Attlee ministry">Clement Attlee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Martin_(civil_servant)" title="John Martin (civil servant)">John Martin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Helsby" title="Laurence Helsby">Laurence Helsby</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Thomas Leslie Rowan</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1908-02-22</span>)</span>22 February 1908<br /><a href="/wiki/Dunlavin" title="Dunlavin">Dunlavin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">29 April 1972<span style="display:none">(1972-04-29)</span> (aged 64)<br /><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Catherine Patricia Love</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1944)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tonbridge_School" title="Tonbridge School">Tonbridge School</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Queens%27_College,_Cambridge" title="Queens' College, Cambridge">Queens' College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath" title="Order of the Bath">CB</a> <a href="/wiki/1946_New_Year_Honours_(Order_of_the_Bath)" title="1946 New Year Honours (Order of the Bath)">(1946)</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Victorian_Order" title="Royal Victorian Order">CVO</a> (1947) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath" title="Order of the Bath">KCB</a> <a href="/wiki/1949_Birthday_Honours" title="1949 Birthday Honours">(1949)</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Sir" title="Sir">Sir</a> <b>Thomas Leslie Rowan</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath">KCB</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Royal Victorian Order">CVO</a></span></span> (22 February 1908 – 29 April 1972) was a British <a href="/wiki/Civil_servant" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil servant">civil servant</a> and industrialist. </p><p>He served in the Colonial Office and HM Treasury, and was Principal Private Secretary to <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a>, before joining the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., as economic minister. After some years heading the Overseas Finance Section of the Treasury, in 1966 he moved into the private sector as head of <a href="/wiki/Vickers" title="Vickers">Vickers</a>, and from 1971 until his sudden death was chairman of the <a href="/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council">British Council</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leslie_Rowan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cambridge_Queens%27_Gatehouse.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Cambridge_Queens%27_Gatehouse.JPG/180px-Cambridge_Queens%27_Gatehouse.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Cambridge_Queens%27_Gatehouse.JPG/270px-Cambridge_Queens%27_Gatehouse.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Cambridge_Queens%27_Gatehouse.JPG/360px-Cambridge_Queens%27_Gatehouse.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1595" data-file-height="1217" /></a><figcaption>Queens' College, Cambridge</figcaption></figure> <p>Rowan was born at <a href="/wiki/Dunlavin" title="Dunlavin">Dunlavin</a>, in <a href="/wiki/County_Wicklow" title="County Wicklow">County Wicklow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>, then part of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland</a>. He was a younger son of Thomas Rowan of <a href="/wiki/Dromore_West" title="Dromore West">Dromore West</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Sligo" title="County Sligo">County Sligo</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a> clergyman and headmaster who became a missionary in British India, where Rowan spent most of his early childhood.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1920 to 1926, Rowan was educated as a day boy at <a href="/wiki/Tonbridge_School" title="Tonbridge School">Tonbridge School</a>, serving as School Captain in his final year. He was in the school's First XI (<a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a>), First XI (<a href="/wiki/Field_hockey" title="Field hockey">hockey</a>), and First XV (<a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was then an Exhibitioner at <a href="/wiki/Queens%27_College,_Cambridge" title="Queens' College, Cambridge">Queens' College, Cambridge</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Fforde_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fforde-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also went on to captain the <a href="/wiki/England_men%27s_national_field_hockey_team" title="England men's national field hockey team">England men's national field hockey team</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Dalton" title="Hugh Dalton">Hugh Dalton</a> later described Rowan as "A bit too pi for me. School prefect type."<sup id="cite_ref-HD_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HD-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leslie_Rowan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Government_Offices_Great_George_Street.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Government_Offices_Great_George_Street.jpg/180px-Government_Offices_Great_George_Street.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Government_Offices_Great_George_Street.jpg/270px-Government_Offices_Great_George_Street.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Government_Offices_Great_George_Street.jpg/360px-Government_Offices_Great_George_Street.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1443" /></a><figcaption>HM Treasury</figcaption></figure> <p>Rowan served in the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Office" title="Colonial Office">Colonial Office</a> from 1930 to 1933, then was a civil servant in <a href="/wiki/HM_Treasury" title="HM Treasury">HM Treasury</a> until 1947, but with responsibilities outside of it.<sup id="cite_ref-Fforde_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fforde-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1941, Rowan became Assistant Private Secretary to <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> while he was British prime minister during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>, and then was promoted to be Churchill's <a href="/wiki/Principal_Private_Secretary_to_the_Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Principal Private Secretary</a>; he remained at <a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street">10 Downing Street</a> in this post when <a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a> took over as prime minister in 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Fforde_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fforde-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:10_Downing_Street_2010_entzerrt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/10_Downing_Street_2010_entzerrt.jpg/180px-10_Downing_Street_2010_entzerrt.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/10_Downing_Street_2010_entzerrt.jpg/270px-10_Downing_Street_2010_entzerrt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/10_Downing_Street_2010_entzerrt.jpg/360px-10_Downing_Street_2010_entzerrt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3934" data-file-height="2734" /></a><figcaption>10, Downing Street</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1947, Rowan was briefly Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Minister for Economic Affairs, then from 1947 to 1949 returned to HM Treasury as Second Secretary,<sup id="cite_ref-Fforde_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fforde-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> gaining a <a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath">knighthood</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1949_Birthday_Honours" title="1949 Birthday Honours">1949 Birthday Honours</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BP_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BP-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1949 to 1951, Rowan was economic minister at the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_Kingdom,_Washington,_D.C." title="Embassy of the United Kingdom, Washington, D.C.">British Embassy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and returned from there to head the Overseas Finance Section of HM Treasury.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1966, he succeeded Sir Charles Dunphie as head of the <a href="/wiki/Vickers" title="Vickers">Vickers Group</a>, with shipbuilding and armaments divisions.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1971, he became chairman of the British Council.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Private_life">Private life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leslie_Rowan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Private life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1939, Rowan was unmarried and living at <a href="/wiki/Sloane_House,_Chelsea" title="Sloane House, Chelsea">Sloane House, Chelsea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1944, in <a href="/wiki/Kensington" title="Kensington">Kensington</a>, Rowan married Catherine Patricia Love, an officer in the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Royal_Naval_Service" title="Women's Royal Naval Service">Women's Royal Naval Service</a> and a daughter of Brigadier R. H. A. D. Love, of <a href="/wiki/Mayford" title="Mayford">Mayford</a>, and they had four children, Sarah Josephine Rowan, Susannah V. Rowan, Charles Rowan and Mark D. R. Rowan.<sup id="cite_ref-BP_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BP-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their daughter Susannah married Johnson Tamlyn, and their granddaughter Joanna Tamlyn married <a href="/wiki/Beresford-Peirse_baronets" title="Beresford-Peirse baronets">Sir Henry de la Poer Beresford-Peirse, 7th Baronet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their son Mark married Katharine Julia Fraser, a great-granddaughter of <a href="/wiki/Simon_Fraser,_13th_Lord_Lovat" title="Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat">Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat</a>, and they have four children.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 13 October 1964, Rowan and his wife were the last dinner guests Winston Churchill entertained at <a href="/wiki/Chartwell" title="Chartwell">Chartwell</a> before his death. Lady Rowan later said of the occasion "It was sad to see such a great man become so frail".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time of his death on 29 April 1972, Rowan was living in <a href="/wiki/Brompton,_London" title="Brompton, London">Brompton, London</a> <a href="/wiki/SW_postcode_area" title="SW postcode area">SW3</a>. He left an estate valued for probate at £56,422,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> equivalent to £940,270 in 2023. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leslie_Rowan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of the Order of the Bath">Companion of the Order of the Bath</a> (CB), <a href="/wiki/1946_New_Year_Honours_(Order_of_the_Bath)" title="1946 New Year Honours (Order of the Bath)">1946 New Year Honours</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Royal Victorian Order">Commander of the Royal Victorian Order</a> (CVO),<sup id="cite_ref-BP_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BP-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1947<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath">Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath</a> (KCB), <a href="/wiki/1949_Birthday_Honours" title="1949 Birthday Honours">The 1949 King's Birthday Honours</a><sup id="cite_ref-BP_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BP-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_publications">Major publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leslie_Rowan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Major publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Arms and Economics: The Changing Challenge</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1960)</li> <li><i>Investment and Development: The Role of Private Investment in Developing Countries</i> (<a href="/wiki/Overseas_Development_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas Development Institute">Overseas Development Institute</a>, 1965)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leslie_Rowan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/archival_objects/461271">Order of service for memorial service of Sir Thomas Leslie Rowan (1908-1972)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leslie_Rowan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ODNB_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Rowan, Sir (Thomas) Leslie (1908–1972), civil servant and industrialist", in <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (Oxford: OUP, 2004)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"ROWAN, Thomas Leslie, 1920–26" in Charles Harold Knott, <i>The Register for Tonbridge School from 1900 to 1965</i> (Tonbridge School, 1966), p. 116</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Fforde-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Fforde_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Fforde_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Fforde_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Fforde_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Fforde" title="John Fforde">John Fforde</a>, Richard Sidney Sayers, John Harold Clapham, <i>The Bank of England and Public Policy, 1941–1958</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1992), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mVh0o5DLfJ8C&pg=PA239">p. 239</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HD-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HD_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Dalton" title="Hugh Dalton">Hugh Dalton</a>, <i>The Political Diary of Hugh Dalton, 1918–40, 1945–60</i> (Cape, 1986), p. 485</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Randolph_Churchill" title="Randolph Churchill">Randolph Spencer Churchill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Gilbert" title="Martin Gilbert">Martin Gilbert</a>, <i>Winston S. Churchill</i>, Vol. 1, p. 1,289</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BP-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BP_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BP_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BP_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BP_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/Burke%27s_Peerage" title="Burke's Peerage">Burke's Peerage</a></i>, vol. 3 (2003), p. 3834; "LOVE Catherine P / Rowan / Kensington 1a 177" in <i>England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005</i> (1944, first quarter); <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2406/images/40565_625988_2619-00390">"Miss Catherine Patricia Love"</a> in <i>List of Officers on the Active List of the Royal Navy</i> (1942), p. 390</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Diane_Kunz" title="Diane Kunz">Diane B. Kunz</a>, <i>The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis</i> (University of North Carolina Press, 2000), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1D7qCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA221">p. 221</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hennessy" title="Peter Hennessy">Peter Hennessy</a>, <i>Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties</i> (2007), p. 134</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Achievement</i> Volumes 33-34 (1966), p. 4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"CHAIRMAN JULY 1971 - APRIL 1972" in <i>Annual Report</i> (British Council, 1972), p. 2: "There have been many tributes in the press to the late Sir Leslie Rowan who died suddenly on 29 April 1972. In the all too brief time he was the Council's Chairman he never spared himself..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/National_Registration_Act_1939" title="National Registration Act 1939">National Registration Act 1939</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61596/images/tna_r39_0107_0107b_008">Sloane House, Church Street, Chelsea</a>, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 7 February 2021 <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/beresfordpb1814.htm">Beresford-Peirse, of Bagnall, Waterford (UK Baronet, 1814)</a>, cracroftspeerage.co.uk, accessed 5 February 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Burke's Peerage</i>, vol. 2 (2003), p. 2,414</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Martin Gilbert, <i>Authorised biography of Winston S. Churchill, vol. VIII: Never Despair: Winston S. Churchill 1945–1965</i> (1988), p. 1,357</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"ROWAN sir Thomas Leslie of 16 The Vale London S.W.3 died 29 April 1972 Probate London 4 August. £56422." in <i>Probate Index for England and Wales</i> (1972), p. 297</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i>, Issue 37407, 28 December 1945, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37407/page/7/data.pdf">p. 7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38033/page/3619">"Page 3619 | Issue 38033, 1 August 1947 | London Gazette | The Gazette"</a>. <i>www.thegazette.co.uk</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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