Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, ROBERT ALUN (1894 - 1969), Professor of Agricultural Botany at University College, Bangor, and a naturalist promoted independent lecturer and head of the college's Agricultural Botany department. Between 1941 and 1944 he was seconded from his college post to become an administrative officer with the Ministry of Agriculture in Caernarfonshire. For a short period in 1944-45 he was one of His Majesty's Inspectors for rural schools, and this experience enabled him to contribute to the 1944 Education Act. In July
ROWLAND, Sir JOHN (1877 - 1941), civil servant of his private secretaries from 1905 to 1912 he was appointed a member of the Welsh Insurance Commission in 1911. He became Chairman of the Welsh Board of Health in 1930, retiring in 1940. He died on 2 January 1941, in Cardiff, and was buried there. Rowland married, 1902, Mair, daughter of David Lewis of Llanafan, Cardiganshire; they had three sons. He received the M.V.O. in 1911, C.B.E. in 1918
ROWLANDS, Sir ARCHIBALD (1892 - 1953), administrator September 1941 he was on the Beaverbrook and Harriman mission to Moscow. In 1943 he was chosen to advise the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, on military arrangements in India faced with war against Japan. Following the famine in Bengal he was appointed chairman of the enquiry into the administration of the province. He won the admiration of the Indians. In 1945 he was appointed a financial member of the Governor's
SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician objectors' tribunal for some years. He was exceptionally competent and courageous, and had a great gift of friendship with people in all walks of life. His wife died in Swansea, 19 August 1939, and he married (2) in Llandrindod Wells, 24 April 1941, Lady Annie Gwladys, widow of Sir Henry Gregg and daughter of David Morlais Samuel, Swansea. As ' Morlaisa ' she was a member of the Gorsedd. He died 5 April
SANKEY, JOHN (BARON SANKEY, VISCOUNT SANKEY of Moreton), (1866 - 1948), lawyer the Coal Commission (1919) and a member of the Indian Round Table Conference, and his services were in great demand on many commissions and committees, legal, educational, and ecclesiastical (see the list in Www, 1941-50). He was a loyal and devoted churchman, and was largely responsible for the framing of the constitution of the (disestablished) Church in Wales. He was an honorary Fellow of Jesus
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author (1866-1928), Edward (1867-69), John Humphreys Davies (1871-1926) who became Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Walter Ernest Llewelyn (1874-1941), and George (1877-1877). On her father's side S.M.S. was a great-great-granddaughter of David Charles, brother of Thomas Charles of Bala, and on her mother's side a great-great-granddaughter of the Biblical commentator Peter Williams
SEYLER, CLARENCE ARTHUR (1866 - 1959), chemist and public analyst and calorific values could readily be extracted. For this highly specialised work the South Wales Institute of Engineers awarded him its Gold Medal in 1931 and in 1937 the Bar to it. In 1941 he was awarded the Melchett Gold Medal of the Institute of Fuel. After much heart searching he left Swansea, the true town of his adoption over a period of 50 unbroken years, at the end of 1942, in order to
SHAND, FRANCES BATTY (c.1815 - 1885), charity worker : at a small workshop in the Canton area of Cardiff; at Byron Street, Roath; and, in 1868, at Longcross Street off Newport Road (where it remained until the street was destroyed during a German air raid in 1941). Frequenters of the institute were taught to read and write but an even greater need identified was that of providing them with the means of securing a livelihood which would remove their
SKAIFE, Sir ERIC OMMANNEY (1884 - 1956), brigadier and patron of Welsh culture before returning to the Welch Fusiliers as lieutenant colonel in 1929. From 1934 to 1937 he was military attaché in Moscow, and subsequently commander of the Welch Territorial Brigade, before joining the research department of the Foreign Office, 1941-44. He was author of A Short history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (1924). He retired to Crogen mansion in Merionethshire, later residing at Dolserau
SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher . Vaughan Thomas). He also published books of cerdd dant settings by Haydn Morris and Llyfni and Mallt Huws. He lost a large proportion of his stock during the air raids over Swansea in 1941, but he continued to publish after the war. Unlike some of his predecessors in the field, Snell was a publisher only, and never printed any works. He was regarded as one of the keenest of businessmen, and was known as
SOULSBY, Sir LLEWELLYN THOMAS GORDON (1885 - 1966), naval architect shipbuilding and repairs in the Bristol Channel and the north-west of England, 1941-47, and in recognition of his services he was knighted in 1944. He died at his home, 77 Roath Court Road, Cardiff, 9 January 1966.
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist tour in Australia and New Zealand: Grassland and other studies (1928); The hill lands of Britain: development or decay? (1937); The plough-up: policy and ley farming (1941); Make fruitful the land: a policy for agriculture (1941); The way of the land (1943); Disraeli and the new age (1943). But, without doubt, his masterpiece was his book The land now and tomorrow (1935). He married Doris Wood Bourne

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