Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, WILLIAM RHYS (1858 - 1929), professor of Greek Born 11 July 1858 at Wimbledon, son of the Rev. J. Gwilym Roberts. He was educated at the City of London School and King's College, Cambridge, where he won some of the principal university prizes in classics, and where he was a Fellow, 1882-8. He was professor of Greek at University College, Bangor, 1884-1904, and professor of classics in the University of Leeds, 1904-22. He was considered an
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
RODERICK, JOHN (1673 - 1735), grammarian, printer and publisher of almanacks and books, poet, and eisteddfodwr published a paper on arithmetic c. 1716. This may have been the first discussion of arithmetic in Welsh but there is no copy extant. It is mentioned in John William Thomas (1805 - 1840), Elfennau Rhifyddiaeth (Caerfyrddin, 1832), 6, and John Roberts (1731 - 1806), Rhyfyddeg neu Arithmetic (Dublin, 1768), iii. Some of the various printed books for which his press was responsible (from 1715 to c. 1728) are
ROOS, WILLIAM (1808 - 1878), portrait painter and engraver (Talhaiarn), and R. W. Price (Rhiwlas), in addition to several mezzotints and lithograph portraits by him. He offered his portrait of Christmas Evans to William Roberts (Nefydd) in 1870 for £2, unframed. He died at Amlwch 4 July 1878.
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, JANE HELEN (Helen o Fôn; 1891 - 1955), linguist, teacher and missionary (with the CM) Menai Bridge, Thomas Charles Williams, rested heavily upon Helen. She attended all the services and won prizes in the county scriptural examination. From Beaumaris grammar school she won a scholarship to the University College of North Wales and registered there in October 1908. Dr. Kate Roberts, her contemporary, refered to her 'unusual ability'. She won a second-class honours degree in French in
ROWLANDS, ROBERT JOHN (Meuryn; 1880 - 1967), journalist, writer, poet, lecturer, preacher
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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