Anthony Rowse

{{Short description|First colonial Governor of Suriname}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|office1 = Governor of Surinam

|term_start1 = 1650

|term_end1 = 1654

|predecessor1 = Office established

|successor1 = William Byam

}}

Anthony Rowse was the first Colonial Governor of Suriname during English suzerainty. Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet mentions his starting an English settlement on the Suriname River.{{cite book|author=Michiel van Groesen|title=The Legacy of Dutch Brazil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTiNAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|date=9 June 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-06117-0|page=50}} In 1650 reportedly landed in Suriname with around 300 people. That said as the effort had been initiated by Baron Francis Willoughby it would later be known as Willoughby-Land.{{cite book|author=Jonathan D. Hill|title=History, Power, and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_IBDiceEY8UC&pg=PA28|date=1 June 1996|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-58729-110-4|page=28}} Once there Rowse is said to have negotiated with two "Carib kings or princes."{{cite book|author=Ellen-Rose Kambel|title=The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Maroons in Suriname|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DP7wFoSr6LsC&pg=PA23|date=1 January 1999|publisher=IWGIA|isbn=978-87-90730-17-8|page=23}}