Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1828 - 1872), Congregational college tutor Born 1 July 1828 at Dowlais, son of Daniel Roberts, minister of Bryn Seion Congregational church (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, ii, 280-1). From Ffrŵd-y-fâl Academy he went in 1845 to Coward College in London, but almost immediately removed to Carmarthen Presbyterian College. With a Dr. Williams scholarship (1850) he went up to Glasgow University, where he remained for three years; but though
ROBINSON, GILBERT WOODING (1888 - 1950), professor of Agricultural Chemistry, world authority on soils Wales from 1939. He was vice-principal of University College Bangor in 1947-48 and Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1948. In 1913 he married (1) Winifred Annie Rushworth of Louth, Lincolnshire, and they had one son and three daughters. In 1949 he married (2) Mary Isabel, daughter of H.L. James, Dean of Bangor. He died in Bangor on 6 May 1950.
ROWLAND(S), DAVID (Dewi Brefi; 1782 - 1820), cleric Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, Cardiganshire; he received priest's orders 20 September 1806. On 1 June 1808 he was licensed to the curacies of Llanwnnog and Carno, Montgomeryshire, but after two years, on the recommendation of John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), he was chosen to go as a missionary to S. John's, Newfoundland, under the auspices of the S.P.G., sailing in June 1810. He remained there till 1816, when, owing to
ROWLAND, ELLIS (c. 1650 - c. 1730) Harlech, bard englynion and poems in free metre - cerddi and carolau plygain. Examples of his work are found in Cardiff MSS. 47, 48, and 64, and in the following MSS. in N.L.W. - Cwrtmawr MS 12B, Cwrtmawr MS 69C, Cwrtmawr MS 128A, Cwrtmawr MS 230B, Glyn Davies 1, Plas Nantglyn 3, Brogyntyn 3, Wynnstay 7, NLW MS 593E, NLW MS 673D, NLW MS 783B, NLW MS 836D, NLW MS 1238B, NLW MS 1244D, NLW MS 1485A, NLW MS 1578B, NLW MS
ROWLAND, Sir JOHN (1877 - 1941), civil servant Born 1 June 1877, at Penbont-fach, Tregaron, Cardiganshire, son of John Rowland and Margaret, his wife. He was educated at the Technical College, Cardiff, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. On leaving college in 1904 he taught at Cardiff, and identified himself with Welsh religious and cultural movements there. He attracted the notice of David Lloyd George and after serving as one
ROWLAND(S), WILLIAM (1887 - 1979), schoolmaster and author ); Llawlyfr dysgu Cymraeg (1924 and 1927, two volumes); Bywyd ac Anturiaethau Robinson Crusoe (Rhan 1) (1928, a translation of 'the most well-known and popular of Defoe's work, i.e. chapters i-xxvii in Bohn's edition (1893), he [W.R.] summarized these and followed the example set by most of the English editors of the history, omitting many of the more tedious moral passages…'); Llyfr V, VI a VII (1928-30
ROWLANDS, GRIFFITH (1761 - 1828), surgeon born in the parish of Llanfair near Harlech, Meironnydd on 9 April 1761. Having spent his apprenticeship as a surgeon in Liverpool, he succeeded in obtaining a place at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Following completion of seven years of medical education, he was accepted, on 1 August 1782, as a member of the Company of Surgeons, the predecessor of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a
ROWLANDS, Sir HUGH (1828 - 1909), general, and the first Welshman to be awarded the Victoria Cross J.P. for the Transvaal). His only son, Hugh Barrow Rowlands, died of wounds received in Somaliland where he was serving as a major in the King's African Rifles in 1903. Sir Hugh Rowlands died on 1 August 1909 and was buried in the parish churchyard at Llanrug.
ROWLANDS, JANE HELEN (Helen o Fôn; 1891 - 1955), linguist, teacher and missionary (with the CM) Born 3 April 1891 in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, the youngest child of Captain Jabez Rowlands, and his wife Martha. The father travelled the world on sailing ships. He was a man of wide interests and had an astute mind. The mother was a devotional and puritanical lady who ran a sewing business in the home, 1 Fair View Terrace. William, the eldest child, went into the ministry and became minister of
SALESBURY, WILLIAM (1520? - 1584?), scholar and chief translator of the first Welsh New Testament Revelations, translated by Thomas Huet, precentor of S. Davids, and the following epistles translated by Richard Davies - 1 Timothy, Hebrews, James, and 1 and 2 Peter. It is probable that Salesbury and bishop Davies began to translate the Old Testament into Welsh, but for some reason - according to Sir John Wynn because they disagreed about the meaning and derivation of a word - the work was discontinued
SALUSBURY, THOMAS (1561 - 1586), conspirator Born 1561, elder son and heir of John Salusbury the younger and Katheryn of Berain. His year of birth is found in an englyn by William Cynwal, NLW MS 1553A. His brother (Sir) John was born in 1566 (englyn by William Cynwal in NLW MS 6495D, facing p. 1); in the same MS., englynion by various poets name five of his children. He was admitted to Trinity College, Oxford, 29 January 1579/80 at the age
SAMUEL, DAVID (Dewi o Geredigion; 1856 - 1921), schoolmaster and writer Born 1 March 1856 at Aberystwyth, the son of Edward Samuel. He was educated at Aberystwyth National school, Aberystwyth grammar school (Edward Jones), Llandovery College, University College, Aberystwyth (1873), and Clare College, Cambridge, which he entered with a mathematical scholarship in October 1875. He won several prizes and graduated in January 1879, being placed twentieth wrangler. He

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