Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROGERS, OWEN (c.1532 - c.1570), printer and bookseller Owen Rogers was made free of the Stationers' Company of London on 8 October 1555. His origins are unknown, but his wife Rose was the daughter of David Lloid of 'Biteffery' (Bodfari), he had two stepbrothers named Jones, a lodger named Lewis Evans who wrote a 'new year's gift' and at least one of the ballads he printed, and his last two apprentices were Humphrey Powell of 'llodrod' (Lledrod?) and
ROOS, WILLIAM (1808 - 1878), portrait painter and engraver The son of Thomas and Mary Roose, Bodgadfa, Amlwch, he was christened at Amlwch 30 April 1808. His paintings of 'The Death of Owen Glyndwr' and 'The Death of Captan [sic] Wynn at Alma' were awarded second place at the national eisteddfod held at Llangollen in 1858. He was a popular portrait painter and the N.L.W. holds his portraits in oils of Christmas Evans, John Cox, Thomas Charles, John Jones
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(S), WILLIAM (1887 - 1979), schoolmaster and author , in the Priffordd Llên series); Ymarferion Cymraeg (1934); Straeon y Cymry: Chwedlau Gwerin (1935); Gwyr Eifionydd (1953) and Tomos Prys of Plas Iolyn (1564?-1634) (1964, a bilingual booklet to celebrate St David's Day in the schools). (As stated in his preface to Straeon y Cymry, he received generous bibliographical assistance from his friend Robert (Bob) Owen, Croesor when he was researching the
ROWLANDS, HENRY (1655 - 1723), antiquary important work was Mona Antiqua Restaurata, which was published in Dublin in 1723, a second impression being issued in 1766 under the editorship of Dr. Henry Owen (1716 - 1795). In this work the principal relics of the past are listed and an effort is made to prove that Anglesey was the chief seat of the druids. He was not successful in his attempt to trace the derivation of Welsh words. He corresponded
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
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, Deputy. His brother, captain JOHN SALUSBURY, and a kinsman, captain Owen Salusbury of Holt (see also under Salusbury of Lleweni), fought as volunteers in the wars on the Continent; they had a hand in Sir William Stanley's treasonable plots of 1586 and 1587, and served for a time in the Spanish army. Later, about 1596, they came into close contact with the earl of Essex; they accompanied him in his
SALUSBURY family Lleweni, Bachygraig, Owen Salusbury of Holt (grandson of 'John of the Thumbs') and had to take to flight in order to avoid arrest. Siôn Tudur refers to this quarrel in a cywydd written on this occasion, in which he deplores the family differences between the Salusburies of Lleweni and of Rug (Llanstephan MS 124 (628)). Two years later, in March 1594/5, John entered the Middle Temple to study law, and for the next ten
SCOURFIELD, Sir JOHN HENRY (1808 - 1876), author Born 1808, son of Owen Philipps, Williamston, near Neyland, Pembrokeshire, and his wife Elizabeth Anne Scourfield, Moat, Pembrokeshire. He was educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford. He was sheriff of Pembrokeshire 1833, Member of Parliament for Haverfordwest 1852-68, and for the county of Pembroke 1868-76. He married, 1845, Augusta Lort Philipps, Lawrenny, Pembrokeshire, by whom he had two
SIDNEY, Sir HENRY (1529 - 1586) Penshurst, Kent, president of Wales Leicester and Sir Richard Bulkeley over the forest of Snowdon, in which Bulkeley was supported by several Caernarvonshire squires of popish sympathies, while Sidney himself was at this time censured for slackness in proceeding against recusants - which is perhaps why his rule was remembered with affection even by religious and political opponents like Hugh Owen of Plas-du. He was absent on diplomatic
SION BRWYNOG (d. 1567?), poet , daughter of Owen ap Ifan ap Madog of Ucheldre, Llanfflewyn, and they had a son, William Brwynog. Siôn Brwynog died in 1562, according to an elegy by Gruffudd Hiraethog (Bodleian MS. 31440, f. 4, 176-80), and was buried in Llanddeusant churchyard.
SMYTH, ROGER (1541 - 1625), Roman Catholic priest and Welsh translator students, against the English (see under Clynnog, Morys). The English won, and Smyth was dismissed from the college because he refused to express his readiness to be ordained priest, and to return to England as a missionary. After this, his history becomes obscure; perhaps he was assisted by his friends Gruffydd Robert and Owen Lewis. It is likely that there is some foundation for the statement made in Y

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