ROWLAND (or ROULAND), DAVID, 'of Anglesey ' (fl. 16th century), translator, etc.

Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses) says that he was a native of Anglesey, who, after reading for some time at S. Mary's Hall, Oxford, and leaving without a degree, became tutor to the son of the earl of Lennox, travelled, and obtained some knowledge of modern languages. After his return he became a tutor of Greek and Latin and wrote for the use of his pupils A Comfortable Aid for Scholars, full of variety of Sentences, gathered out of an Italian author (London, 1578). He is better known to posterity as the person who 'drew out of Spanish ' The Pleasaunt Historie of Lazarillo de Tormes, a Spaniarde, wherein is contained his maruelous deedes and life. With the straunge aduentures happened to him in the seruice of sundrie Masters (London, 1586; and subsequent editions). The 1586 edition is dedicated ' To the right Worshipful Sir Thomas Gressam - Knight.' Rowland wrote ' an epytaphe of my Lorde of Pembroke '; he was also acquainted with the poet George Turbervile, author of The Noble Arte of Venerie or Hunting.

Author

• Sir William Llewelyn Davies, (1887 - 1952)

Sources

• J. E. V. Crofts (ed.), The Pleausant Historie of Lazarillo de Tormes, Drawen out of Spanish by David Rouland of Anglesey, 1586 (Oxford 1924), 1586 (Oxford, 1924); no. vii of 'The Percy Reprints')

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: David Rowland

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q5800336

Published date: 1959

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