Hercules Rowley

He was the only son of Sir John Rowley who was knighted for his services at the time of the Restoration and the former Mary Langford eldest daughter and heiress of Sir Hercules Langford, 1st Baronet. His sister was Lettice Rowley wife of Arthur Loftus, 3rd Viscount Loftus. (Anne Rowley wife of Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet, and Mary Rowley wife of John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene were daughters of the John Rowley who was the great-grandfather of Hercules Rowley.)

In 1661, his grandfather Hercules Langford bought Lynch's Castle (located on the Summerhill Demesne in County Meath) and many other townlands from The Rt Rev. Dr. Henry Jones, the Lord Bishop of Meath.{{cite book |last1=Kimber |first1=Edward |title=The Peerage of Ireland: A Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom Etc |date=1768 |publisher=Almon |page=139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sWhUAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA139 |accessdate=30 April 2020 |language=en}}

Rowley was a Member of Parliament for County Londonderry in the Irish House of Commons between 1703 and his death in 1742.{{cite book |last=Johnston-Liik |first=E. M. |author-link= |date=2006 |title=MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jitdluWSybIC |location= |publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation |page=119 |isbn=1903688604}} He was the uncle, by marriage, of the politician Henry Maxwell, with whom he clashed over proposals in 1721 to establish the Bank of Ireland.{{cite web |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/maxwell-henry-a5531 |title=Maxwell, Henry |last=McGrath |first=C. Ivar |date=October 2009 |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography |access-date=7 March 2023 }}{{cite book |last1=Hayton |first1=David |title=The Anglo-Irish Experience, 1680-1730: Religion, Identity and Patriotism |date=2012 |publisher=Boydell Press |isbn=978-1-84383-746-6 |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfYA6gNCL3gC&pg=PA120 |access-date=8 March 2023 |language=en}}

On 3 January 1705, Rowley was married to Frances Upton,{{cite book |last1=Debrett |first1=John |title=Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [Another] |date=1839 |publisher=J.G. & F. Rivington |page=[https://archive.org/details/debrettspeerage02debrgoog/page/n670 697] |url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeerage02debrgoog |accessdate=30 April 2020 |language=en}} the sixth daughter of Arthur Upton of Castle Upton in County Antrium. Together, they were the parents of:

• Dorothy Beresford Rowley, who married Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, the son of Edward Wingfield and Eleanor ({{nee}} Gore) Wingfield (daughter of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet), in 1727.{{cite book |last1=Debrett |first1=John |title=Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland ... |date=1838 |publisher=J. G. & F. Rivington |pages=629–630 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ru4UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA629 |access-date=8 March 2023 |language=en}}
• Hercules Langford Rowley ({{circa|714}}–1794), who married Elizabeth Ormsby Upton, the only daughter of Clotworthy Upton (MP for the borough of Newton and County Antrim) and Jane Ormsby (daughter of John Ormsby MP for Kilmallock), in 1732.

Rowley died on 19 September 1742.

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| title = Member of Parliament for County Londonderry

| with = William Conolly (1703–1729)
Arthur Dawson (1729–1742)
Edward Cary (1742)

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| before = Sir Tristram Beresford, Bt
William Jackson

| after = Edward Cary
Hercules Langford Rowley

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