[1] He made his debut in first-class cricket for Lancashire against Yorkshire at Sheffield in July 1851, before playing in the return fixture at Manchester in August.
[5] Prior to his death, Rowley had invested heavily in mining in Colorado.
[6] Rowley was one of eight fatalities on 17 November 1870 in a railway accident at Harrow & Wealdstone station.
[7] The following year, his mother sued the London and North Western Railway for negligence.
His brothers, Alexander and Edmund, both played first-class cricket, as did his nephew Ernest Rowley.