abstract:Dr Thomas Rowley (24 Aug 1796 – 11 November 1877) was a successful headmaster of Bridgnorth Grammar School between 1821 and 1850. He was a member of the Canterbury Association, was Dean-designate for the yet to be built ChristChurch Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, but he never emigrated.
The most famous was Thomas Chatterton, an 18th-century writer who forged poems that he said were written by one ThomasRowley, a medieval monk, and which continue to be much admired.