Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTSON, EDWARD (1880 - 1964), professor, linguist, and librarian Librarian of the John Rylands Library (1949-62). He gained a D.Litt. degree of St. Andrew's in 1913, and received a number of honours: he was Gunning lecturer at Edinburgh University (1929-32), had an hon. D.D. degree of the universities of Wales and St. Andrew, and LL.D. of the University of Manchester, and was made president of the Society for Old Testament Study. His field was manuscripts in the
ROBERTSON, HENRY (1816 - 1888), civil engineer and railway pioneer by his report that they gave him support and so, in company with Robert Roy and other Scotsmen, he revived the Brymbo Iron Works and pits of John Wilkinson and gave new life to a decaying industrial area in Denbighshire. Robertson realised that if the iron-works and collieries were to be run successfully, a railway to the district was essential. He and his friends, therefore, promoted the North
ROBINSON, THEODORE HENRY (1881 - 1964), professor, scholar and author Aberdeen and Wales and D. Theol. of the University of Halle-Wittemberg, and receiving the British Academy's Burkitt medal for Biblical Studies. He made his name as the author of a number of standard books which were greatly needed in the field of Old Testament studies; among them were Prophecy and the prophets in the Old Testament (1923), The decline and fall of the Hebrew kingdoms (1926), Hebrew
ROWLAND, HENRY (1551 - 1616), bishop of Bangor Born at Mellteyrn, Llŷn, Caernarfonshire, the son of Rolant ap Robert and Elizabeth, daughter of Gruffydd ap Robert Vaughan of Talhenbont. He was educated at a school in the parish of Penllech and at New College, Oxford (B.A. 1574, M.A. 1577, B.D. 1591, D.D. 1605). Ordained on 14 September 1572; he became rector of Mellteyrn, 1572-81; rector of Langton (Oxfordshire), 1581-1600; prebendary of
ROWLAND, ROBERT DAVID (Anthropos; ?1853 - 1944), minister (CM), poet and writer Born about 1853, the exact date and place not known. He was the adopted son of Robert and Beti Rowland, who lived in the village of Tyn-y-cefn, near Corwen. After some schooling he was for a time a stable-boy at Aber Artro, near Llanbedr, Meironnydd, and afterwards apprenticed to a tailor. Not much is known about this period in his life; he seems to have worked at his trade in Shrewsbury and
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, CEINWEN (1905 - 1983), singer studied singing for nine years with Robert (Wilfred) Jones and after winning two first prizes for singing at the national eisteddfod in Mold (1923) and Pwllheli (1925) she received many invitations to sing in celebrity concerts and oratorio throughout Wales. She went to London in January 1930 and after further study there with Plunket Greene and Mabel Kelly she became one of the chief sopranos of her
ROWLANDS, EURYS IONOR (1926 - 2006), Welsh scholar articles and notes in this field as well as a new edition of Awdlau Cadeiriol Detholedig y Ganrif Hon, 1900-25 (1959) and Llywarch Hen a'i Feibion (Aberystwyth, 1984). He was an able student of linguistics and his published notes on Welsh grammar and syntax reveal how knowledgeable he was in contemporary linguistic theory. He was a poet of merit though he published little of his poetry. He married Nina
ROWLANDS, JANE HELEN (Helen o Fôn; 1891 - 1955), linguist, teacher and missionary (with the CM) School in Newtown. This change was fateful as she threw herself into missionary activity, and gradually found herself becoming increasingly involved in church work. In 1915 she decided to dedicate herself to the missionary field. She was accepted as a missionary in the General Assembly in London in June 1915. She took a training course at St. Colm's College, Edinburgh, and on 23 October 1916 sailed
ROWLANDS, ROBERT JOHN (Meuryn; 1880 - 1967), journalist, writer, poet, lecturer, preacher preached in Welsh Methodist churches and on week-nights he was a W.E.A. lecturer. He was the author of numerous books varying in content from adventure stories to poems and plays. (For a list of his works see David Jenkins, Y Genhinen, Winter 1967-68, the memorial issue to Meuryn.) Both as a journalist and an individual he was at all times a man of strong views and one who had a very great interest in
ROWLANDS, ROBERT PUGH (1874 - 1933), chief surgeon of Guy's Hospital . ' When and how to operate for appendicitis ', British Medical Journal, 1910; ' Time in Surgery ', 1916; ' Cancer of the colon ', 1927; ' The surgery of the gall bladder and bile ducts ', 1929; and ' Cancer of the stomach ', 1933. According to his contemporaries, Robert Pugh Rowlands was born a Welshman and died a Welshman, because he himself confessed to thinking in Welsh while speaking English. He
SALESBURY, WILLIAM (1520? - 1584?), scholar and chief translator of the first Welsh New Testament He was a gentleman by birth, the second son of Ffwg ap Robert ap Thomas Salbri Hen, and Annes, daughter of Wiliam ap Gruffydd ap Robin of Cochwillan. He was born at Llansannan but spent the greater part of his life at Plas Isa, Llanrwst. He was educated at Oxford and, in all probability, it was while he was there that he left the Roman Catholic Church and became a Protestant. He married Catrin

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