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ROWLAND, ELLIS (c. 1650 - c. 1730) Harlech, bard englynion and poems in free metre - cerddi and carolau plygain. Examples of his work are found in Cardiff MSS. 47, 48, and 64, and in the following MSS. in N.L.W. - Cwrtmawr MS 12B, Cwrtmawr MS 69C, Cwrtmawr MS 128A, Cwrtmawr MS 230B, Glyn Davies 1, Plas Nantglyn 3, Brogyntyn 3, Wynnstay 7, NLW MS 593E, NLW MS 673D, NLW MS 783B, NLW MS 836D, NLW MS 1238B, NLW MS 1244D, NLW MS 1485A, NLW MS 1578B, NLW MS
ROWLAND, NATHANIEL (1749 - 1831), Methodist cleric Born in Llangeitho parsonage, son of Daniel Rowland. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1771, and M.A. 1774. He was ordained deacon at Oxford. 26 May 1771, and a priest in London 21 September 1773. He was curate of Stock (Essex) from 1771 until his marriage in 1776 to Margaret, daughter of Howel Davies and went to live at Parcau, Henllan Amgoed, on the borders of
ROWLANDS, JOHN (Giraldus; 1824 - 1891), antiquary information supplied by Rowland himself, he secured a post in the library of Llandaff House (the property of Colonel Bennett, better known as Major Richards) which was sold by Sotheby's, 20 and 21 April 1871 (Cardiff Times). According to John Davies (1860 - 1939) a catalogue by Rowland of the contents of this library was published in 1864. There is no known copy of this catalogue nor of the first catalogue
ROWLANDS, ROBERT JOHN (Meuryn; 1880 - 1967), journalist, writer, poet, lecturer, preacher Born at Ty'n Derw, a smallholding at Aber near Bangor, Caernarfonshire, May 22, 1880, son of William and Mary Rowlands. When he was three years of age he met with an accident; he dislocated his thigh and as a consequence of unsatisfactory treatment he was lame for the rest of his life. His father died when he was six years old. He was educated at Aber National school at a time when the ' Welsh
RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist Amy, Berta Ruck was related to the Darwin family, and through her mother to the Sackville-Wests. At the age of two Berta Ruck, fluent in Hindustani and English, was sent home to her Welsh-speaking paternal grandmother, Mary Ann Ruck (née Matthews, 1822-1905), who would be a dominant influence on the young Berta. She had inherited the Esgair and Pantlludw estates, overlooking the river Dyfi in
SALESBURY, HENRY (1561 - 1637?), grammarian Born in Henllan parish, Denbighshire, his family being a branch of the old Lleweni family. He graduated in Oxford University (S. Alban Hall), studied medicine, and followed the profession of a physician. Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd refers to him as ' medicus doctis annumerandus.' In 1593 he published his Welsh grammar, Grammatica Britannica (London). It is also recorded that he had begun another
SALESBURY, WILLIAM (1520? - 1584?), scholar and chief translator of the first Welsh New Testament their own language. His first attempt to render the Scriptures into Welsh was a translation of the lessons used in the Church Communion service, printed in 1551 under the title Kynniver llith a ban. His plans were upset for a time when the Roman Catholic faith was revived under queen Mary (1553-8), but in 1563, early in the reign of queen Elizabeth, a law was passed directing the translation of the
SALMON, DAVID (1852 - 1944), training college principal . He wrote many notes on matters of local historical interest in the Pembrokeshire weekly newspapers. In 1919 the University of Wales conferred on him the honorary degree of M.A. He married in 1876 Mary Wiedhofft of London (died 1925), and they had five children. He died on 14 December 1944 at Lampeter Velfrey in Pembrokeshire.
SALTER DAVIES, ERNEST (1872 - 1955), educationalist Born 25 October 1872, son of Thomas Davies, minister (B) and president of the Baptist College, and his wife Emma Rebecca, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. He attended Haverfordwest Grammar School and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and entered Jesus College, Oxford, as a classical scholar. He was for a long period a leading figure in educational administration and thought in England. He
teulu SALUSBURY Rug, Bachymbyd, another thirty years of hard work and frugal living he paid off his debts, restored his inheritance, and even added to it. Then, because of a violent quarrel with his eldest son, OWEN SALUSBURY, over the latter's marriage to Mary, daughter of Gabriel Goodman of Abenbury, prothonotary of North Wales, William split his estates into two parts, giving Rug and the Merionethshire lands to Owen, and Bachymbyd
SALUSBURY, THOMAS (1561 - 1586), conspirator of 16 (he is not the same as the Thomas Salusbury who is mentioned by Foster, Reg. of Adm. to Gray's Inn, under the year 1573; cf. also D.N.B.). After some time at Oxford, he joined the service of the earl of Leicester, his guardian and patron, and while in London appears to have become a Roman Catholic; about 1580 he joined a group of lively young courtiers who favoured the cause of Mary, queen of
SANDBROOK, JOHN ARTHUR (1876 - 1942), journalist ; and he was at Waziristan and on the north-west frontier during the 1921 troubles. The following year he resigned his editorship and returned to Wales as chief associate editor of The Western Mail, succeeding Sir William Davies as editor in 1931. A keen and sympathetic student of Welsh life he attended many national eisteddfodau and contributed reports daily of the proceedings. He took an active part

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