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ROCH, WALTER FRANCIS (1880 - 1965), politician and landowner rather than Lloyd George, a decision which put an end to his political career. Roch was the author of Mr. Lloyd George and the War (1920). In 1934 he was appointed J.P. for Monmouthshire. He married in 1911 the Hon. Fflorens Mary Ursula Herbert, the only daughter of Sir Ivor Herbert, M.P. for South Monmouthshire, 1906-17, and the first and last Baron Treowen. Roch and his wife spent the last 25 yrs of
ROWLAND (or ROULAND), DAVID (fl. 16th century), translator ' To the right Worshipful Sir Thomas Gressam - Knight.' Rowland wrote ' an epytaphe of my Lorde of Pembroke '; he was also acquainted with the poet George Turbervile, author of The Noble Arte of Venerie or Hunting.
ROWLAND, Sir JOHN (1877 - 1941), civil servant Born 1 June 1877, at Penbont-fach, Tregaron, Cardiganshire, son of John Rowland and Margaret, his wife. He was educated at the Technical College, Cardiff, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. On leaving college in 1904 he taught at Cardiff, and identified himself with Welsh religious and cultural movements there. He attracted the notice of David Lloyd George and after serving as one
ROWLANDS, JANE HELEN (Helen o Fôn; 1891 - 1955), linguist, teacher and missionary (with the CM) 1911 and was awarded the George Osborne Morgan Scholarship which enabled her to proceed to Newnham College, Cambridge, but she stayed there for a term only. In a dilemma she returned home to discuss matters with her minister. Between September 1912 and June 1913 she taught French at her old school, spending the summer in France. In September 1913 she was appointed a teacher at the girls' Central
RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist illustrations to magazines such as The Idler, supplementing her income with German-English translation work. Soon, however, she discovered a facility for fiction writing and from 1905 her short stories and serials began to appear in Home Chat and other periodicals. In 1909 she married the novelist George Oliver Onions (1873-1961), whom she had first met in London in 1902; he changed his name to George Oliver
SAUNDERS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1724), divine vicar (13 August). Five months later (18 January 1706) he was instituted rector of Helmdon, Northamptonshire (not north Hampshire, as in D.N.B.) by the bishop of Peterborough, and held this living as an absentee pluralist until 1721. (He was not rector of Moreton-in-the-Marsh, as stated in D.N.B.). In 1709 he was further preferred by bishop George Bull of S. Davids to a prebendary stall in the
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
SAYCE, GEORGE ETHELBERT (1875 - 1953), journalist and newspaper proprietor Born in Llangua, Monmouthshire, Christmas Day 1875, son of George Sayce and his wife Athel (née Miles). He was trained in journalism and pursued literary and commercial studies at King's College, London, gaining experience as a journalist between 1898 and 1914 chiefly in Yorkshire, where he became editor of The York Observer, The Thirsk and District News, and also The Yorkshire Chronicle for a
SCARROTT, JOHN (1870 - 1947), boxing promoter returned to Tonypandy and leased the Pavilion Rink, which could hold up to 4,000 spectators and was located across the road from the Hippodrome. A match between Young (George) Dando of Merthyr and Charlie Yeomans of Pontypridd drew an estimated crowd of 3,000 spectators. Having established a second large permanent venue for boxing, Scarrott sold his interests in the Pavilion Rink and continued promoting
SCOTT-ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN (8th BARON HOWARD DE WALDEN, 4th BARON SEAFORD), (1880 - 1946), landowner and sportsman, writer, and patron of the arts Born 9 May 1880, only son of Frederick George Ellis, 7th baron, and Blanche, eldest daughter and co-heir of William Holden, of Palace House, co. Lancaster. Educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he served in the Boer War, and afterwards in World War I. He succeeded, as 8th baron, in 1899. His descent from John Ellis, who was descended from a family of that name seated at
SEABORNE-DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1904 - 1984), lawyer and politician May 1945, following the elevation of the sitting Liberal MP David Lloyd George to a hereditary peerage the previous January, he held the Caernarfon Boroughs for the Liberals in a by-election, polling 27,754 votes against his sole opponent Professor J. E. Daniel for Plaid Cymru. The operation of the political truce for the duration of the war meant that neither the Conservatives nor the Labour Party
SEAGER, GEORGE LEIGHTON (BARON LEIGHTON of St. Mellons), (1896 - 1963), merchant and shipowner

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