Born in 1879 the son of Gomer Rowlands, an accountant at Llangollen, and his wife Martha, he was educated at the University of Liverpool, where he was Thelwall Thomas Fellow in Surgical Pathology and Gee Fellow. He was surgical registrar at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women in London. He practised at Swindon, where he was visiting consultant surgeon and gynaecologist to the Victoria Hospital, and later at Rhyl, North Wales, where he was surgeon to the Prince Edward War Memorial Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital. He died at his home, Plas Gwyn, Russell Road, Rhyl on 24 October 1954 aged 75, survived by his only daughter who died on 2 August 1956. Publication: Circumcision clamp. *Brit med J* 1937, 1, 223, with illustration.