Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, DANIEL (1725? - 1806), poet
PROTHEROE, DANIEL (1866 - 1934), musician Born 5 November 1866 at Ystradgynlais, Brecknock, the son of Daniel and Eleanor Protheroe. His first instructors in music were Philip Thomas, J. T. Rees, and D. M. Lewis. A good vocalist, he won prizes when he was quite young at national eisteddfodau held in Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil, 1880-1. When he was only 16 he conducted the Ystradgynlais choir which won the prize at the Llandeilo eisteddfod
ROBERTS, THOMAS ROWLAND (Asaph; 1857? - 1940), biographer
THOMAS, ROWLAND (c. 1887 - 1959), newspaper proprietor
LAUGHARNE, ROWLAND (d. 1676?), Parliamentary major-general Poyer, and at this juncture Rowland Laugharne and Rice Powell seem to have joined him. Laugharne was no doubt influenced by the fact that the earl of Essex was now commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary forces. Essex, it should also be added, was a local landowner with an estate at Lamphey, near Pembroke. With the assistance of Parliamentary ships which were driven into Milford Haven by stress of
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817 - 1870), cleric and scholar Born at Halkyn, Flintshire, 16 August 1817, second son of Rowland Williams (1779 - 1854) and Jane his wife. Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he became Fellow of his college in 1839, B.A. in 1841, and M.A. in 1844. He spent a short time as assistant master at Eton, and was ordained deacon in 1842 and priest in 1843 by bishop Kaye of Lincoln. For eight years (1842-50) he was
ROWLAND, THOMAS (1824 - 1884), cleric and grammarian Born in Llanfor parish, Meironnydd, 5 June 1824, son of a workman on the Rhiwlas estate. His promise attracted the notice of Cleaver, the sinecure rector of the parish, who took him away from the shop at Bala in which he was serving, and sent him to John Williams, vicar of Rhos-y-gwaliau, to be educated for school-teaching. But after a short period at Chelsea Training College, Rowland showed a
ROWLAND, HENRY (1551 - 1616), bishop of Bangor
LEWIS family Llwyn-du, Llangelynnin ; he had married, (1), 21 February (?) 1641/2, Margaret, daughter of Rowland Ellis of Gwanas and grand-daughter of Ellis Lewis, the eldest of the four brothers named above; she died at the age of 42 c. 1663-4, having borne six children. The widower then married, (2), c. 1675-6, Catherine Puw of Gyfannedd (Llangelynnin - another Quaker family), and by her had five children; after his death she and her
CADWALADR, HUW (fl. 17th century), poet Several of his poems are preserved, most of them in free metre, among them a carol on the death of Rowland Vaughan of Caer-gai and an elegy on the death of Edward Morris.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717 - 1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer progress in the world and of the various experiences which befall it. He wrote about twenty-eight elegies, some of them very ordinary, while others - such as those upon Lewis Lewis, Grace Price, Howel Harris, and Daniel Rowland - occasionally reached a high standard. He published a number of prose books: Llythyr Martha Philopur, 1762, and Atteb Philo-Evangelius, 1763; Crocodil Afon yr Aipht, 1767; Tri
WILLIAMS, DANIEL POWELL (Pastor Dan; 1882 - 1947), founder and first president of the Apostolic Church The only Welshman to establish a world-wide church; born 5 May 1882 at Garn-foel, a smallholding near Pen-y-groes in the Amman valley, Carmarthenshire, one of twelve children of William and Esther Williams. As the father lost his sight when Daniel was only ten years old, he had to leave school a few months later in order to increase the family's income in some way, but the lad's weekly wage as a

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