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For the British businessman and philanthropist, see John Quiller Rowett.

John Rowett OBE is a British historian, academic, and academic administrator.


Career

John S. Rowett started his career at University College Wales in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK.

He was fellow and tutor in history at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was active in the creation of the Rothermere American Institute in the University of Oxford in the late 1990s.

He served as warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, from 1999 to 2004. As warden of Rhodes House at the time of the centenary of the Rhodes Trust in 2003, Rowett was active, alongside Rhodes Trust chair Lord Waldegrave of North Hill and Jakes Gerwel, chancellor of Rhodes University in South Africa, in the creation of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, bringing together Nelson Mandela and the Rhodes Trust in a foundation providing scholarships to promote good leadership in Africa.

From 2005 to 2007 he served as secretary-general of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Other roles

Rowett co-founded and edited the journal Twentieth Century British History, and co-edited the English Historical Review.

Apart from being a trustee of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, Howett was also a trustee of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Foundation in Windsor, and of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies as of 2006.

Honours and recognition

In 2005, he received an OBE for his contribution to relations between Britain and South Africa.

Critical assessments of Rowett's leadership of the Rhodes Trust have been made by writers such as R.W. Johnson.

References

  1. ^ "Facing the challenges of tertiary education in a changing world" (PDF). 9 April 2006. This article is based on Dr Rowett's opening address to the Conference of Executive Heads of Commonwealth Universities, University of Adelaide, 9 April 2006
  2. ^ "The Warden of Rhodes House - the Rhodes Scholarships". Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2016. "History". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  3. Commonwealth Education Partnerships, Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007.
  4. ^ Cowell, Alan (6 July 2003). "Rhodes Scholars Are Split on a New Foundation for South African Awards". The New York Times.
  5. "Our Story". The Mandela Rhodes Foundation. 11 February 1990. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
  6. "The Rhodes scholarship, its birthday and an academic row". The Age. 2 July 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
  7. R.W. Johnson, Look Back in Laughter: Oxford's Postwar Golden Age, Threshold Press, 2015, ch. 13.

Further reading

Academic offices
Preceded bySir Anthony Kenny Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
1999-2004 		Succeeded bySir Colin Lucas


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