The Reverend Samuel Evans Rowe (1 September 1834 – 4 July 1897) was a minister who reached high rank in the Methodist church before a distinguished period as a missionary in South Africa, holding senior posts in the church, and founding an educational institution for girls.
[2] His father was a Methodist minister, the Reverend Samuel Rowe, and his mother was Mary Ann Evans.
[3] In 1857, he was accepted as a Candidate for the Ministry,[4] and entered Didsbury College, but had to leave almost immediately to take his first appointment.
In 1896 he was invited to be the Superintendent of the Cape Town Circuit, but declined this on health grounds, and requested a year's home leave in England.
[1] On his return to South Africa a year later, he died of a brain haemorrhage as his ship, the Tantallon Castle, was docking at Port Elizabeth.