Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROWLAND, ROBERT DAVID (Anthropos; ?1853 - 1944), minister (CM), poet and writer
ROWLANDS, Sir ARCHIBALD (1892 - 1953), administrator Born 26 December 1892 at Twyn-yr-odyn, Lavernock, near Penarth, Glamorganshire, one of the three sons of David and Sarah (née Thomas) Rowlands, who kept a grocer's shop. He was educated at Penarth county school and from there proceeded in 1911 to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. At the end of his first year Professor Hermann Ethé foresaw a brilliant career for him in German, and he
ROWLANDS, DAVID (Dewi Môn; 1836 - 1907), Congregational minister and college principal
ROWLANDS, DAVID - see ROWLAND, DAVID
ROWLANDS, EDWARD DAVID (1880 - 1969), schoolmaster and author
ROWLANDS, JOHN (Giraldus; 1824 - 1891), antiquary with the Powell family of Nanteos. His mother re-married. Her second husband, David James of Llanddewibrefi, was a carpenter and builder. The family later moved to Pontlotyn. David James's family were staunch Anglicans in Cardiganshire and Glamorganshire. The boy was for 3 years apprenticed as a carpenter by his step-father. By this time he had taken to reading and at the age of 15 he was a local
ROWLANDS, ROBERT JOHN (Meuryn; 1880 - 1967), journalist, writer, poet, lecturer, preacher preached in Welsh Methodist churches and on week-nights he was a W.E.A. lecturer. He was the author of numerous books varying in content from adventure stories to poems and plays. (For a list of his works see David Jenkins, Y Genhinen, Winter 1967-68, the memorial issue to Meuryn.) Both as a journalist and an individual he was at all times a man of strong views and one who had a very great interest in
RUMSEY, WALTER (1584 - 1660), judge Born at Llanover, Monmouthshire, in 1584, son of John Rumsey and his wife Anne (David). In 1660 he went up to Gloucester Hall (now Worcester College), Oxford, and in 1603 to Gray's Inn (of which he became Bencher in 1631); he was called to the Bar in 1608, and had a very lucrative practice. In 1631 he became judge of the south-eastern circuit of the Great Sessions of Wales; he was Member of
SALMON, DAVID (1852 - 1944), training college principal
SALUSBURY family Lleweni, Bachygraig, latter's eldest surviving son, JOHN SALUSBURY, was made a Knight of the Carpet by Edward VI at his coronation, and married Jane, daughter of David Myddleton of Chester (a member of the Gwenynog family); he was sheriff of Denbighshire in 1542 and in 1575, chamberlain of North Wales, and Member of Parliament for his county 1547-52, in 1553, 1554, and in 1554-5. In the dispute between the earl of Leicester
SAMUEL, DAVID (Dewi o Geredigion; 1856 - 1921), schoolmaster and writer
SAMUEL, DAVID - see SAMWELL, DAVID

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