David Rowlands (surgeon)

(1778–1846) was a Welsh naval surgeon, who became the Inspector of H.M. Hospital and Fleets for the Royal Navy.

[1] He had the distinction of being the Surgeon for the Royal Navy at Halifax when he treated the wounded of HMS Shannon, including Captain Philip Broke, after the renown Capture of USS Chesapeake during the War of 1812.

[7] He was the surgeon at Halifax when the wounded arrived from the capture of Chesapeake by HMS Shannon on 1 June 1813.

Philip Wodehouse and the care fell upon Dr. Rowland, the Surgeon, Royal Naval Hospital.

[16] She died five years later and he purchased a monument for his wife Esther in the St. Paul's Church (Halifax).