Rowan Quentin Smith (8 August 1943 – 23 May 2018) was a Dean of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.
[2] Under the prevailing race laws of the Apartheid regime in South Africa, he was accorded the status of a Coloured person.
He became a professed member of the community in 1980 and was then appointed as chaplain to St. Martin’s School, in the city and diocese of Johannesburg.
Released from his vows, he left the Community of the Resurrection in 1987, becoming Anglican chaplain at the University of Cape Town (1988-1989);[5] and examining (1989-1990), and domestic (1990-1991) chaplain to the archbishop, the Most Reverend Desmond Mpilo Tutu, all in the Diocese of Cape Town.
In 1996 he was appointed canon pastor (1996) and fourteenth dean and rector of the Cathedral Church of St. George the Martyr (installed by the archbishop, the Most Reverend Winston Hugh Njongonkulu Ndungane, 13 October 1996), all in the Diocese of Cape Town.