Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman idea of a wide-ranging weekly review. She contributed to Time and Tide's content via Leaders, Middles, editorial comments and signed articles. In the early years she penned book reviews and pseudonymous theatre reviews. Her six-part series (as 'Candida') on 'Women of the Leisured Classes' resulted in a public debate with G. K. Chesterton, chaired by her friend Bernard Shaw. She wrote long literary
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman . For the viscerally anti-modern and anti-urban poet, his creation seemed to embody 'the land's patience and a tree's/ Knotted endurance.' Iago, endlessly mutating to reflect his creator's kaleidoscopic moods and concerns, was by turns bestially mute and eloquent in the alternative green language of nature. The poetry was content with articulating his inalienable mysteriousness; it did not offer to
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1885 - 1970), writer Christian nationalist that D.J. took to writing. Basically he was a pastoral writer, the recorder of visual memories. He was in his middle age and early old-age when he produced the works which will be of lasting value. Like his hero, William Llewelyn Williams, he held a deep love for the rural life of Carmarthenshire, but he did not rest content with sentimentality. He saw the Wales that he found worth
WILLIAMS, ISAAC (1802 - 1865), cleric, poet, and theologian the subject 'Ars Geologica' He suffered a serious illness because of over-work and was obliged to content himself with a pass degree, which he obtained on 25 May 1826; proceeding M.A. in 1831, and B.D. in 1839. In December 1829 he was ordained deacon, and licensed to the curacy of Windrush-cum-Sherborne, Gloucestershire. On 30 May 1831 he obtained a Fellowship at Trinity College, and the following
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic (1946-1961), based in east Sussex. Informed by Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis's belief in the ways in which the close reading of literature could enhance individual lives and transform social values, Williams's first editorial initiatives and publications were on the ways in which literary texts embody - in their form and content - the often conflicting 'structures of feeling' that inform society and
WOTTON, WILLIAM (1666 - 1727), cleric and scholar He was not a Welshman, either by descent or, except for a comparatively short period, by residence; accordingly one must be content to refer to the article in the D.N.B. (by Norman Moore, the Celtic scholar) on the career of this astonishing man, who read Greek and Latin at the age of 5 and Hebrew at the age of 6, and who was to become the friend of Bentley, Locke, and Newton; he was born in

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