Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROWLANDS, GRIFFITH (1761 - 1828), surgeon house surgeon in the hospital in London for two years before establishing himself as a surgeon in Chester. In 1785 he was appointed surgeon to the city hospital, a post he occupied for 43 years. Griffith Rowlands was one of the first in Europe to treat a broken hip by sawing away both ends of the bone each side of the fracture in order to seek a better bond - and that over fifty years before the time
ROWLANDS, Sir HUGH (1828 - 1909), general, and the first Welshman to be awarded the Victoria Cross a handsome Sword of Honour in the castle. He served afterwards in the West Indies, England, Scotland and Ireland before embarking for India where, in 1865, he took command of the Welch Regiment. Two years later he married Isabella Jane Barrow, the grand-daughter of William Glynne Griffith of Rhosfawr and Bodegroes, Pwllheli and they had two children. In 1875 he returned to Britain and had command
ROWLANDS, JOHN (Giraldus; 1824 - 1891), antiquary reporter for the Carmarthen Journal, being dubbed 'Brutus bach' since his style resembled that of David Owen, 'Brutus'. In 1848 he entered the new teachers' training college at Carmarthen, where he came to the notice of Harry Longueville Jones. His first school was at Llangynnwr, in 1850. He moved to Llandybïe in 1851, and thence to Llanelli and Dinas Powys. Towards the end of 1864 he became Welsh
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
ROWLANDS, WILLIAM (1807 - 1866), author, editor, minister, and principal founder of the Calvinistic Methodist connexion in the U.S.A. Born 10 October 1807, in Calico Building, London, the son of parents who were natives of Tregaron, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Ystradmeurig school, at a school at Tregaron, and at the grammar school kept by John Jones (Llanbadarn) at Llangeitho. In 1824 he went to the Merthyr Tydfil district to teach in a school; he also taught at Nant-y-glo, Monmouth. He began to preach with the
RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist Merioneth, and also had a house in Aberdyfi. Her mother, who came from Llanbryn-mair, traced her family back to the fifteenth-century poet Dafydd Llwyd o Fathafarn and to John Jones of Maes-y-garnedd, Merioneth, in the seventeenth century. In 1886, after a brief period serving with the Liverpool Volunteers, Colonel Ruck was appointed Chief Constable of Caernarfonshire and the family moved to Llwyn-y-brain
SALISBURY, ENOCH ROBERT GIBBON (1819 - 1890), lawyer and bibliophile a short period (1857-9) he was Liberal Member of Parliament for Chester. He collected a very large library of books on Wales and the Marches; today, the bulk of this collection forms the ' Salisbury Library ' at Cardiff University College, but the University College at Bangor also has a good many books of Salisbury 's. His wife was a daughter of the Independent minister, Arthur Jones of Bangor
SALISBURY, THOMAS (1567? - 1620), publisher ' Registers in 1597 was a Welsh version of A godly meditation of the soule concerninge a love towards Christ our Lord, but there is no evidence that this was ever published. In a letter written to Sir John Wynn of Gwydir c. 1610 (Ballinger and Jones, The Bible in Wales and Calendar of the Wynn of Gwydir Papers) Salisbury refers to several books in Welsh lost through the untimely death of Edward Kyffin, the
SALUSBURY, JOHN (1575 - 1625), Jesuit and scholar Born in Merionethshire, 1575, a member possibly of the Salusbury of Rug family. He went to the Jesuit College at Valladolid, 22 June 1595, was ordained priest 21 November 1600, and was sent in May 1603 to England where, in 1605, he joined the Society of Jesus. When Fr. Robert Jones died in 1615, Salusbury succeeded him as Superior of the North and South Wales District and went to live at Raglan
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, estate passed to his younger brother, Griffith Howel Vaughan. When Griffith died in 1848 it was inherited by his nephew, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau and Ystumcolwyn, from whom it passed to Charles Henry Wynn (1847 - 1911) of Glynllifon, third son of Spencer Bulkeley Wynn, 3rd baron Newborough (see Glyn of Glynllifon family, and Wynn family of Rug). CHARLES SALUSBURY, second surviving son of
SALUSBURY, THOMAS (1561 - 1586), conspirator Scots. Early in 1586 Salusbury and another Welshman, Edward Jones of Plas Cadwgan near Wrexham, came under the influence of Anthony Babington who was plotting to murder Elizabeth, release Mary, and set her on the throne. The plot was disclosed to the authorities and Babington was arrested at the end of August; Salusbury succeeded in escaping to Cheshire where, however, he, too, was arrested a few days
SAMUEL, CHRISTMAS (1674 - 1764), Independent minister social life of the district and in the church. He was a strong advocate of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror's Circulating Schools; he was also one of the main patrons of the men who were associated with the literary renaissance that came about in the district between the rivers Towy and Tivy at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th. His name is associated with Isaac Carter's printing

Search results

1657 - 1668 of 1927 for "Griffith Hartwell Jones"