Hercules Rowley

Hercules Rowley (1679 – 19 September 1742) was an Anglo-Irish politician.

Early life He was the only son of Sir John Rowley who was knighted for his services at the time of the Restoration and the former Mary Langford eldest daughter and heiress of Sir Hercules Langford, 1st Baronet. His sister was Lettice Rowley wife of Arthur Loftus, 3rd Viscount Loftus. (Anne Rowley wife of Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet, and Mary Rowley wife of John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene

Career Rowley was a Member of Parliament for County Londonderry in the Irish House of Commons between 1703 and his death in 1742. He was the uncle, by marriage, of the politician Henry Maxwell, with whom he clashed over proposals in 1721 to establish the Bank of Ireland.

Personal life On 3 January 1705, Rowley was married to Frances Upton, the sixth daughter of Arthur Upton of Castle Upton in County Antrium. Hercules Langford Rowley (–1794), who married Elizabeth Ormsby Upton, the only daughter of Clotworthy Upton (MP for the borough of Newton and County Antrim) and Jane Ormsby (daughter of John Ormsby MP for Kilmallock), in 1732.

Rowley died on 19 September 1742.