Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBIN DDU (fl. c. 1450), poet About ninety of his compositions are preserved in manuscript, many of them being vaticinatory. In one of these he converses with his book of prophecies, a type of vaticination also attributed to Meredudd ap Rhys and Llywelyn ap Cynfrig Ddu. He was an adherent of the Tudors during the Wars of the Roses, and wrote an elegy on the death of Owain Tudor. Among the more notable of his poems are his
ROSS, JOHN (1729? - 1807), printer and publisher Very few biographical details concerning John Ross are available. He had learnt his trade in London, began to print books, etc., in Carmarthen in 1763 (for a year or two with Rhys Thomas), and continued to do so until 1807, the year of his death. A few books printed at the end of the 18th century were produced jointly by Ross and John Daniel. During the half-century of his working life Ross
ROWLAND(S), WILLIAM (1887 - 1979), schoolmaster and author Swansea grammar school (1920-24), founded by Bishop Hugh Gore in 1682. In 1924 he was appointed successor to Rhys Evans as headmaster of Porthmadog county school; he remained in post until his retirement in December 1949. William Rowland was a dedicated and diligent educationalist. Besides teaching children daily and holding evening classes for adults in Welsh language and literature whilst in the south
ROWLANDS, EURYS IONOR (1926 - 2006), Welsh scholar especially their metrical skills and artistry. He edited Gwaith Lewys Môn (Cardiff, 1975) and Gwaith Owain ap Llywelyn ab y Moel (Cardiff, 1984), he revised and completed editions of Gwaith Iorwerth Fynglwyd (Cardiff, 1975) and of Gwaith Rhys Brydydd a Rhisiart ap Rhys (Cardiff, 1976) and he also prepared a useful selection of poems, Poems of the Cywyddwyr (Dublin, 1976). He published a host of innovative
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, This family was founded at Bachymbyd, between Ruthin and Denbigh, at the close of the 15th century by JOHN SALUSBURY, fourth son of Thomas Salusbury of Lleweni (died 1471). It acquired Rug by the marriage of John's eldest son PIERS SALUSBURY to Margaret Wen, daughter and heiress of Ieuan ap Hywel ap Rhys, lord of Rug, near Corwen, Meironnydd. Rug became the more important of the two seats, though
SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician recommenced work in Garn-goch pit 3, where David Rhys Grenfell (later a Member of Parliament for Gower) was one of his workmates. He took an interest in socialist activities and was one of the secretaries of Swansea Labour Society. In a Socialist holiday school in Caister-on-sea he met Harriott Sawyer Polkinghorne, a London schoolmistress. They were married in 1911 and she strongly urged him to devote
SEEBOHM, FREDERIC (1833 - 1912), historian and banker The Tribal System in Wales (1895). However, he was not included in the corresponding English volume edited by Jenkins, The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (1959). He was a member of the Welsh land commission of 1893-6, and chapter 9 of The Welsh People by John Rhys and David Brynmor Jones (1906) is mostly his work based on the findings of the commission. He died on 6 February 1912 in
SEISYLL BRYFFWRCH (1155 - 1175), poet identified with the ' Culfardd hardd hen' mentioned by Iolo Goch (I.G.E., xvii, 36). Seisyll sang elegiac odes on the death of Owain Gwynedd, and of Iorwerth Drwyndwn, a son of that prince, and father of Llywelyn the Great. This second elegy is a main source of our scanty knowledge of Iorwerth (see Lloyd, A History of Wales, 549-50). This poet also sang the praises of the 'lord' Rhys in a poem where he
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian of his being lost in the world of birds, insects, molluscs, and fishes. Perhaps the great turning point of his life was his visit (October 1900) to the old home of Joshua Thomas the historian at Leominster, and examining the manuscripts that still remained there. But before that, in 1898-9, four articles of his had appeared in Seren Cymru on Morgan John Rhys; then came three articles in Cymru for
SIANCYN FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1470), poet A native, presumably, of South Wales. Nothing is known of his life, but a few of his poems remain in manuscript. These include two cywyddau to Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dynevor when he was a young man (Peniarth MS 83 (70), Llanstephan MS 30 (435)). His son, Dafydd Fynglwyd, was also a poet.
SIMWNT FYCHAN (c. 1530 - 1606), poet containing his genealogical collections is in the Cardiff Public Library, and there are several other manuscripts containing his work in the various libraries. Some of his cywyddau have been published, his 'pattern' awdl to Piers Mostyn, which he showed at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568, is printed in the grammar, (1592), of Siôn Dafydd Rhys. In 1571 was printed a page showing an epigram by the Latin poet
SION CAIN (c. 1575 - c. 1650), herald bard Son of Rhys Cain, and born probably before the family settled at Oswestry about 1578. He succeeded his father in his profession, and he was regarded, in his day, as the last of the herald bards. He left some notes which suggest that he was also engaged in husbandry. He travelled widely in North Wales in the course of his occupation. The record of his public career begins with a visit to Lleweni

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