Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, THOMAS (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at the Green, near Denbigh, 19 August 1835, son of John and Jane Powel Roberts. For a short time he attended the school kept by Jonah Lloyd, an Independent preacher; after which he went for a year as a farmer's boy to his uncle at Tŷ-draw, near Mold. After that, he went to the British School at Denbigh where Macaulay, the schoolmaster, was kind to him. He served his apprenticeship in the
ROBERTSON, HENRY (1816 - 1888), civil engineer and railway pioneer and designer of the railway from Chester to Shrewsbury with its viaducts over the Dee and the Ceiriog. Like George Stephenson in other areas, Robertson had to survey Welsh land for his railways by night owing to the hostility of the owners. Removing to Shrewsbury, he designed and made most of the railways radiating from the Shropshire capital, in addition to the line from Ruabon to Llan-gollen
ROCH, WALTER FRANCIS (1880 - 1965), politician and landowner rather than Lloyd George, a decision which put an end to his political career. Roch was the author of Mr. Lloyd George and the War (1920). In 1934 he was appointed J.P. for Monmouthshire. He married in 1911 the Hon. Fflorens Mary Ursula Herbert, the only daughter of Sir Ivor Herbert, M.P. for South Monmouthshire, 1906-17, and the first and last Baron Treowen. Roch and his wife spent the last 25 yrs of
ROWLAND (or ROULAND), DAVID (fl. 16th century), translator ' 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.
ROWLAND, ELLIS (c. 1650 - c. 1730) Harlech, bard Little of his history is known. He wrote poems to some persons connected with Ardudwy, Meironnydd, e.g. a cywydd of farewell to Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor, after he had become (1689) bishop of Hereford, an elegy on Edward Lloyd, Cwmbychan, 172(8), an elegy on Samuel Poole, Tyddynyfelin, near Talsarnau, and a cywydd welcoming lady Owen to Glyncywarch, also near Talsarnau. He also wrote
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
ROWLANDS, JANE HELEN (Helen o Fôn; 1891 - 1955), linguist, teacher and missionary (with the CM) 1911 and was awarded the George Osborne Morgan Scholarship which enabled her to proceed to Newnham College, Cambridge, but she stayed there for a term only. In a dilemma she returned home to discuss matters with her minister. Between September 1912 and June 1913 she taught French at her old school, spending the summer in France. In September 1913 she was appointed a teacher at the girls' Central
RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist illustrations to magazines such as The Idler, supplementing her income with German-English translation work. Soon, however, she discovered a facility for fiction writing and from 1905 her short stories and serials began to appear in Home Chat and other periodicals. In 1909 she married the novelist George Oliver Onions (1873-1961), whom she had first met in London in 1902; he changed his name to George Oliver
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, two daughters. The estate was inherited by the elder of the two, MARIA CHARLOTTE (1721 - 1780), who married firstly Thomas Pryce of Gogerddan (died 1745), and secondly, the Rev. John Lloyd. When she died on 26 August 1780 she left Rug by will to Edward William Vaughan, second son of Sir Robert Howel Vaughan of Nannau and Hengwrt (see the article on that family); he died in Sicily in 1807, and the
SALUSBURY family Lleweni, Bachygraig, abandoned when Sir John and his party had come within an ace of fighting a pitched battle at Wrexham with his enemies, Sir Richard Trevor of Trefalun, Sir John Lloyd of Llanrhaeadr, and captain John Salusbury of Rug. Sir John was something of a poet; he wrote in English, and in the manner of his time, a number of sonnets and love lyrics which have little literary merit but throw light on the works of
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer Morgan and Mary Evans; and his niece Elinor Lloyd. Saunders is best remembered for his literary work. His exercises and notes in NLW MS 3260B indicate that he was versed in Welsh strict metres, and much of his poetry was published, e.g. Ychydig a Bennillion Profiadol yn cynnwys Griddfaniad Hiraethlawn Dafydd Saunders, 1815; Dwy Awdl: y gyntaf or Elusengarwch, … yr ail, ar Farwolaeth Syr Thomas Picton
SAUNDERS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1724), divine Carmarthenshire. (Letters in Inv. Pembrokeshire, xxxvi and xxxvii, and Inv. Carmarthenshire, 266.) He was a protégé of bishop William Lloyd, one of the 'Seven Bishops,' who was translated to Worcester in 1700. From that year the bishop's son (also named William Lloyd) held the living of Blockley in the diocese of Worcester, but surrendered it in 1705, when Saunders, who had been his curate since 1702, became

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