{{about||the British businessman and philanthropist|John Quiller Rowett}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Rowett''' {{post-nominals| country=GB|OBE}} is a British historian, academic, and academic administrator.
==Career== John S. Rowett started his career at University College Wales in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK.<ref name=2006address>{{cite web| url=https://www.cedol.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/85-88-2007.pdf| title=Facing the challenges of tertiary education in a changing world |date=9 April 2006|quote=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}}</ref>
He was fellow and tutor in history at Brasenose College, Oxford,<ref name=warden/><ref name=2006address/> and was active in the creation of the Rothermere American Institute in the University of Oxford in the late 1990s.<ref>''Commonwealth Education Partnerships'', Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007.</ref><ref name=2006address/>
He served as warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, from 1999 to 2004.<ref name=warden>{{cite web |url=http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/rhodes-trust/the-warden |title=The Warden of Rhodes House - the Rhodes Scholarships |accessdate=2016-03-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316102640/http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/rhodes-trust/the-warden |archivedate=2016-03-16 }} {{cite web |url=https://www.acu.ac.uk/about-us/centenary/history |title=History |accessdate=2015-08-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924065935/https://www.acu.ac.uk/about-us/centenary/history |archivedate=2015-09-24 }}</ref> 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<ref name=nyt2003/> and Jakes Gerwel, chancellor of Rhodes University in South Africa,<ref name=story>{{cite web | title=Our Story | website=The Mandela Rhodes Foundation | date=11 February 1990 | url=https://www.mandelarhodes.org/about/story/ | access-date=8 June 2024}}</ref> 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.<ref name=nyt2003>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/world/rhodes-scholars-are-split-on-a-new-foundation-for-south-african-awards.html|title = Rhodes Scholars Are Split on a New Foundation for South African Awards|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 6 July 2003|last1 = Cowell|first1 = Alan}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=The Rhodes scholarship, its birthday and an academic row | website=The Age | date=2 July 2003 | url=https://www.theage.com.au/world/the-rhodes-scholarship-its-birthday-and-an-academic-row-20030702-gdvz3x.html | access-date=8 June 2024}}</ref>
From 2005 to 2007 he served as secretary-general of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.<ref name=warden/>
==Other roles== Rowett co-founded and edited the journal ''Twentieth Century British History'', and co-edited the ''English Historical Review''.<ref name=2006address/>
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.<ref name=2006address/>
==Honours and recognition== In 2005, he received an OBE for his contribution to relations between Britain and South Africa.<ref name=2006address/>
Critical assessments of Rowett's leadership of the Rhodes Trust have been made by writers such as R.W. Johnson.<ref>R.W. Johnson, ''Look Back in Laughter: Oxford's Postwar Golden Age'', Threshold Press, 2015, ch. 13.</ref>
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==Further reading== *{{cite web | last=McCray | first=Suzanne | title=Reconnection, Responsibility, And Renewal: The Rhodes Trust And The Mandela Rhodes Foundation | website=Project MUSE | date=8 June 2024 | url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/189/edited_volume/chapter/2293753 }} (excerpt from the book ''Beyond Winning'')
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