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ROBERTS, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer Poultry, and in 1805 in the firm of Thomas and R. J. Roberts of 40 Poultry. Later, however, he was in the service of another firm, and in 1820 he visited Jersey as its representative. On this occasion he visited Brittany at the expense of Richard Edmunds, treasurer of the Welsh School, London. In the next year he went as the firm's representative to Ghent, and stayed until the beginning of 1823. It is
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1735 - 1804), member of the 'Trevecka Family' .), extending to 1789, are of very great interest. He died, 1804 - ' Thomas Roberts, gent. ' - and was buried at Talgarth 23 January 1804. He was twice married. There is an account of him and of his family by Richard Bennett in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, x, 21-8. He has sometimes (e.g. in the footnote on p. 704 of Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry) been confused with Thomas Roberts (1760
ROGER 'of CONWAY' (bu farw 1360), Franciscan friar 'custody' of London. He is memorable in Franciscan history as the author of a tract entitled, in its printed versions, Defensio mendicantium, in answer to the tract Defensis curatorum by Richard FitzRalph, archbishop of Armagh. Roger probably wrote his tract in 1357, that is, two years after settling in London, and at a time when there was growing opposition to the Franciscan practice of poverty and
ROGERS, RICHARD SAMUEL (1882 - 1950), minister (B), editor and writer
ROWLAND(S), ELLIS (1621 - 1691), early nonconformist Born in 1621, son of Thomas Rowland, yeoman, of Beaumaris - another son, Richard, appears in Ellis's will. From Beaumaris grammar school he went up, in July 1639, 'aged 18,' to S. John's College, Cambridge (Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses), but did not graduate. He afterwards held the benefice of Llanelidan, Denbighshire, and was confined in his tenure of it (1653) by the Triers. In 1657 he removed
ROWLAND, JOHN (fl. 1760-1764), printer done, as indeed was most of John Rowland's work, that one is led to the conclusion that the printer was Rowland. Ifano Jones suggests, however, that the book was wrongly entered by Rowlands under 1741, instead of 1761, and so it was a Bala publication. Rowlands errs also in recording Pedwar o Gywyddau … (' Argraffwyd gan J. Rowland Bala Tros Richard Reinallt Siopwr ') under 1748; this could not have
ROWLANDS, HENRY (Harri Myllin; 1832 - 1903), writer and antiquary Born in the Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, district in 1832. The Rev. Richard Richards had intended making a clergyman of him but died before taking any action. In 1859 Henry Rowlands joined the Denbighshire constabulary. He was a policeman at Cefnmawr, Llanrhaedr-ym-Mochnant, Llansilin, and Llandegla. He retired in 1891 and went to live at Llangollen. In 1893 he was appointed official interpreter
ROWLANDS, WILLIAM (1807 - 1866), author, editor, minister, and principal founder of the Calvinistic Methodist connexion in the U.S.A. Calvinistic Methodists in 1826 and spent some time in missionary work on the borders of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire. On 20 March 1829 he bought the printing press of Richard Jones, Pontypool; the same year he began to edit and to publish Yr Athraw, a monthly Sunday schools journal. In 1832 he bought a share in a colliery at Blackwood; he also opened a shop there to serve the workmen. He was ordained to
ROWLEY, HAROLD HENRY (1890 - 1969), professor, scholar and author Born 24 March 1890 at Leicester, son of Richard and Emma Rowley. He went to Bristol Baptist College and Mansfield College, Oxford, graduating M.A. at Bristol, B.Litt. at Oxford and D.D. of London University. He won many prizes and scholarships, including the Houghton Syriac Prize. He was minister of the United Church (B and Congl.) at Wells, Somerset (1917-22) and a missionary in China (1922-30
RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist Berta Ruck was born on 2 August 1878 at Murree, Punjab, India, the eldest of eight children of an army officer, Arthur Ashley Ruck (1847-1939), and his wife, Elizabeth Eleanor (née D'Arcy, 1852-1928), also from an army family and of Irish and Norman-French descent. Four other daughters and three sons followed, among them the translator Richard Conyers Ruck (1887-1973). Through her father's sister
SALESBURY, WILLIAM (1520? - 1584?), scholar and chief translator of the first Welsh New Testament Bible and the Book of Common Prayer into Welsh, and he was invited to assist Richard Davies, bishop of S. Davids, in this work. The Prayer Book and the New Testament were finished by 1567 when both texts were published. Salesbury was responsible for the greater part of the work: as far as can be ascertained, he translated the Prayer Book and all the books of the New Testament except the Book of
SALUSBURY, Sir CHARLES JOHN (1792 - 1868), cleric and antiquary a man of letters and antiquary who took a particular interest in the history of Monmouthshire. There are letters to him from Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon'), John Montgomery Traherne, and others, in N.L.W. MS. B.R.A. 328.

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