Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Rowe, (Sir) William Carpenter
Rowe, (Sir) William Carpenter, 1s. Coryndon, of Launceston, Cornwall, doctor. Balliol Coll., matric. 24 June, 1819, aged 18, scholar 1820-6, B.A. 1823; Michel fellow Queen's Coll. 1827-38, M.A. 1827, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1830, recorder of Plymouth 1838, Q.C. 1850, chief justice of Ceylon 1856, knighted 30 Jan., 1856, died 9 Nov., 1859, father of the next named.