title: Ernest Rowland
text: # Ernest Rowland
  
  Ernest Melville Rowlands (21 September 1864 – 7 April 1940) was a Welsh international rugby union player who played rugby for St David's College, Lampeter, and international rugby for Wales.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Rowland was born in Neath, 1864 to Evan Rowland and Jane Morris. After graduating from St David's College, Lampeter, Rowland emigrated to Canada. He was ordained Deacon of the Mission at Clarendon with Palmerston in the Diocese of Ontario in 1894. He married Hannah Lillian Gilbert on 18 June 1896.
  
  ## Rugby career
  
  Rowland was awarded his first and only cap for Wales while still at St David's College, Lampeter. Playing against England as part of the 1895 Home Nations Championship, Rowland was brought into the Welsh pack alongside fellow debutants Lewis Cobden Thomas and Evan Richards. This was the fourth time Wales had played England, and as in the three previous matches England were victorious over the Welsh team. Rowland was replaced for the next game, against Ireland, by Willie Thomas of Llandovery College, and never represented Wales again.
  
  ### International matches played
  
  Wales (rugby union)
  
  * England 1885
  