Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROWLAND, ELLIS (c. 1650 - c. 1730) Harlech, bard Little of his history is known. He wrote poems to some persons connected with Ardudwy, Meironnydd, e.g. a cywydd of farewell to Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor, after he had become (1689) bishop of Hereford, an elegy on Edward Lloyd, Cwmbychan, 172(8), an elegy on Samuel Poole, Tyddynyfelin, near Talsarnau, and a cywydd welcoming lady Owen to Glyncywarch, also near Talsarnau. He also wrote
ROWLAND, Sir JOHN (1877 - 1941), civil servant of his private secretaries from 1905 to 1912 he was appointed a member of the Welsh Insurance Commission in 1911. He became Chairman of the Welsh Board of Health in 1930, retiring in 1940. He died on 2 January 1941, in Cardiff, and was buried there. Rowland married, 1902, Mair, daughter of David Lewis of Llanafan, Cardiganshire; they had three sons. He received the M.V.O. in 1911, C.B.E. in 1918
ROWLAND, NATHANIEL (1749 - 1831), Methodist cleric the Association, and he played a leading part in the excommunication of Peter Williams. His chief failing was his pride, and he tended to arrogate authority over his brethren. In 1807, at the Newcastle Emlyn Association, he too was excommunicated, for drunkenness. He died 8 March 1831, and was buried at Henllan Amgoed. His will was published in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd
ROWLAND(S), WILLIAM (1887 - 1979), schoolmaster and author person. He died on 29 December 1979 at 92 years of age at Bron y Garth Hospital, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, and his remains were cremated at Bangor on 2 January 1980, following a public service held at Tabernacl chapel, Porthmadog. His ashes were interred at Minffordd cemetery, near Penrhyndeudraeth.
ROWLANDS, DAVID (Dewi Môn; 1836 - 1907), Congregational minister and college principal an assistant tutor at Bala Independent College, 1857-8, and then a student at Brecon College, 1858-61, graduating in the University of London at the end of his course at Brecon. He was minister of Yr Hen Gapel, Llanbrynmair, 1861-6, of the English Congregational church, Welshpool, 1866-70, and of the English Congregational church, Carmarthen, 1870-2. In 1872 he became tutor at the Brecon College
ROWLANDS, EDWARD DAVID (1880 - 1969), schoolmaster and author Eisteddfod, Colwyn Bay); Dyffryn Conwy a'r Creuddyn (1948) and Atgofion am Lanuwchllyn (1975; some inhabitants of his home area were responsible for publishing this volume). He also took an active part in the public life of the districts where he had lived and was Mayor of Conwy 1939-40. Some of his MSS. are in the library of University of Wales, Bangor (20,663-8). He married in 1906 Jennie Ellen Jones
ROWLANDS, HENRY (1655 - 1723), antiquary Born at Plas Gwyn, Llanedwen, Anglesey, son of William Rowlands and Magdaline, daughter of Edward Wynne of Penhesgyn Isa, Llansadwrn. There is no record of his having been to any school or college and the inference is that he was educated at home. He was ordained deacon 2 July 1682 and priest a fortnight later. In 1682 he was given the living of Llanfair-pwll and Llantysilio, and in 1696, that of
ROWLANDS, JOHN (Giraldus; 1824 - 1891), antiquary . Marchant Williams succeeded in persuading the government to grant Rowland a teacher's pension, though his length of service in schools did not strictly qualify for it. He died 4 July 1891, 'aged 67,' and was buried in Rumney (Cardiff) churchyard on 8 July. A short note in Y Llan, 10 July 1891, testifies that he had been 'a faithful and interesting reporter for Y Llan and other Welsh Church papers for
ROWLANDS, ROBERT JOHN (Meuryn; 1880 - 1967), journalist, writer, poet, lecturer, preacher 1950 Meuryn became co-editor with S.B. Jones (1894 - 1964) see JONES (Family) until his death 2 November 1967. At the time of his death he was a widower; he left 2 sons and 3 daughters. He was buried in Caernarfon cemetery. He was a man of wide interests - a naturalist with a particular enthusiasm for medicinal herbs, a photographer, a chess player and in his youth, a billiards player. On Sundays he
RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist Berta Ruck was born on 2 August 1878 at Murree, Punjab, India, the eldest of eight children of an army officer, Arthur Ashley Ruck (1847-1939), and his wife, Elizabeth Eleanor (née D'Arcy, 1852-1928), also from an army family and of Irish and Norman-French descent. Four other daughters and three sons followed, among them the translator Richard Conyers Ruck (1887-1973). Through her father's sister
SALESBURY, WILLIAM (1520? - 1584?), scholar and chief translator of the first Welsh New Testament their own language. His first attempt to render the Scriptures into Welsh was a translation of the lessons used in the Church Communion service, printed in 1551 under the title Kynniver llith a ban. His plans were upset for a time when the Roman Catholic faith was revived under queen Mary (1553-8), but in 1563, early in the reign of queen Elizabeth, a law was passed directing the translation of the
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, Mytton - and would do so then only after he had received the king's written command. William, whose wife was Dorothy, daughter of Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth, had been Member of Parliament for Merionethshire in 1620-22; he died in 1660. Owen Salusbury, the eldest son, followed a vacillating course during the Civil War; he was sheriff of Merioneth in 1647-8. He died 17 January 1657/8, transmitting the

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