Background
ROWLAND, John was born on February 10, 1925 in Armidale, N.S.W. Son of L. C. and E. J. Rowland.
ROWLAND, John was born on February 10, 1925 in Armidale, N.S.W. Son of L. C. and E. J. Rowland.
Cranbrook School, Sydney, and University of Sydney.
Served Moscow 1946-1948, Saigon 1952, 1954-1955, Washington 1955-1956, London 1957-1959. Assistant Secretary, Department, of External Affairs 1961-1965. Ambassador to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1965-1968, First Assistant Secretary Department, of External Affairs 1969.
High Commissioner in Malaysia 1969-1972, Ambassador to Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Switzerland 1973-1974, to France 1978-1982.
Deputy Secretary, Department, of Foreign Affairs 1975-1978. Visiting Fellow, A.N.U. 1983-1984.
Married Moira Enid Armstrong in 1956.