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	From 1941 to 1945, Rowley served with [[10th Baluch Regiment\|5/10th Baluch Regiment]] of the [[British Indian Army]] in India and Burma.<ref name="IWM">{{cite web \|title=Rowley, Frederick Allan (Oral history) \|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80019118 \|website=Imperial War Museum \|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>		From 1941 to 1945, Rowley served with [[10th Baluch Regiment\|5/10th Baluch Regiment]] of the [[British Indian Army]] in India and Burma.<ref name="IWM">{{cite web \|title=Rowley, Frederick Allan (Oral history) \|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80019118 \|website=Imperial War Museum \|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>

	Rowley "developed notable leadership qualities", fighting in Burma and southeast Asia, and was "just the sort of man the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), or MI6, was looking for", according to his obituary in ''[[The Times]]''.<ref name="Times obit">{{cite news \|title=Allan Rowley \|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/allan-rowley-x3x3h3mz6x0 \|access-date=22 July 2021 \|work=The Times \|date=12 October ~~2022~~}}</ref>		Rowley "developed notable leadership qualities", fighting in Burma and southeast Asia, and was "just the sort of man the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), or MI6, was looking for", according to his obituary in ''[[The Times]]''.<ref name="Times obit">{{cite news \|title=Allan Rowley \|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/allan-rowley-x3x3h3mz6x0 \|access-date=22 July 2021 \|work=The Times \|date=12 October 2014}}</ref>

	Rowley joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in 1948.<ref name="West2016">{{cite book\|author=Nigel West\|title=At Her Majestys Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britains Intelligence Service, MI6\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VealDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT62\|date=30 June 2016\|publisher=Pen & Sword Books\|isbn=978-1-84832-895-2\|page=62}}</ref>		Rowley joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in 1948.<ref name="West2016">{{cite book\|author=Nigel West\|title=At Her Majestys Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britains Intelligence Service, MI6\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VealDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT62\|date=30 June 2016\|publisher=Pen & Sword Books\|isbn=978-1-84832-895-2\|page=62}}</ref>

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{{Short description|(Frederick) Allan (1922–2014), army officer and intelligence officer}}
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'''Frederick Allan Rowley''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|OBE|MC}} (27 July 1922 – 28 July 2014) was a British Army officer, Foreign Office diplomat, and Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) controller.

==Early life==
He was born on 27 July in 1922 [[Rajputana]], British India, the son of RQMS Rowley, [[Worcestershire Regiment]].{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} He was educated at Haig School, [[Aldershot]].<ref name="Times obit"/>

==Career==
From 1941 to 1945, Rowley served with [[10th Baluch Regiment|5/10th Baluch Regiment]] of the [[British Indian Army]] in India and Burma.<ref name="IWM">{{cite web |title=Rowley, Frederick Allan (Oral history) |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80019118 |website=Imperial War Museum |access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>

Rowley "developed notable leadership qualities", fighting in Burma and southeast Asia, and was "just the sort of man the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), or MI6, was looking for", according to his obituary in ''[[The Times]]''.<ref name="Times obit">{{cite news |title=Allan Rowley |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/allan-rowley-x3x3h3mz6x0 |access-date=22 July 2021 |work=The Times |date=12 October 2022}}</ref>

Rowley joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in 1948.<ref name="West2016">{{cite book|author=Nigel West|title=At Her Majestys Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britains Intelligence Service, MI6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VealDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT62|date=30 June 2016|publisher=Pen & Sword Books|isbn=978-1-84832-895-2|page=62}}</ref>

In 1963, Rowley completed a three-year secondment with the [[Australian Secret Intelligence Service]] (ASIS), and became responsible for intelligence gathering in Rhodesia, under [[John Debenham Taylor]].<ref name="West2016"/>

Rowley was an MI6 Controller, and the first head of the Northern Ireland Assessment Staff, a joint MI5/MI6 operation, based on the top floor of [[Stormont Castle]], until he was succeeded in 1974 by MI5's Denis Payne.<ref name="Pearce2016">{{cite book|author=Martin Pearce|title=Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fl8yCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA263|date=1 September 2016|publisher=Transworld|isbn=978-1-4735-2535-1|pages=263–}}</ref>

==Honours==
Rowley was awarded the Military Cross for his exploits in the Burmese jungle.<ref name="Times obit"/>

In the [[1959 Birthday Honours]] Rowley, then listed as "First Secretary, Foreign Office", was awarded an OBE.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/41727/supplement/3697|title=Page 3697 | Supplement 41727, 5 June 1959 | London Gazette | The Gazette|website=www.thegazette.co.uk}}</ref> In the [[1978 New Year Honours]], then listed as "Counsellor, Foreign & Commonwealth Office", he was awarded a CMG.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/47418/supplement/1|title=Page 1 | Supplement 47418, 30 December 1977 | London Gazette | The Gazette|website=www.thegazette.co.uk}}</ref>

==Personal life==
He met his future wife, the "vivacious" Anne Cresswell, an SIS secretary, at a roof party in Cairo in 1945.<ref name="Times obit"/> They had four children: Charlotte, Sarah, Joanna and Nicholas.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} His daughter Sarah married the art dealer [[Johnny Van Haeften]].<ref name="Times obit"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80019118 IWM 2000 four-part oral history interview with Rowley about his Second World War service]

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[[Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Military Cross]]
[[Category:Secret Intelligence Service personnel]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:People from Rajasthan]]
[[Category:British diplomats]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:Baloch Regiment officers]]
[[Category:British expatriates in Rhodesia]]

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