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ROWLANDS, JANE HELEN (Helen o Fôn; 1891 - 1955), linguist, teacher and missionary (with the CM) Born 3 April 1891 in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, the youngest child of Captain Jabez Rowlands, and his wife Martha. The father travelled the world on sailing ships. He was a man of wide interests and had an astute mind. The mother was a devotional and puritanical lady who ran a sewing business in the home, 1 Fair View Terrace. William, the eldest child, went into the ministry and became minister of
ROWLANDS, JOHN (Giraldus; 1824 - 1891), antiquary with the Powell family of Nanteos. His mother re-married. Her second husband, David James of Llanddewibrefi, was a carpenter and builder. The family later moved to Pontlotyn. David James's family were staunch Anglicans in Cardiganshire and Glamorganshire. The boy was for 3 years apprenticed as a carpenter by his step-father. By this time he had taken to reading and at the age of 15 he was a local
ROWLANDS, ROBERT JOHN (Meuryn; 1880 - 1967), journalist, writer, poet, lecturer, preacher 1950 Meuryn became co-editor with S.B. Jones (1894 - 1964) see JONES (Family) until his death 2 November 1967. At the time of his death he was a widower; he left 2 sons and 3 daughters. He was buried in Caernarfon cemetery. He was a man of wide interests - a naturalist with a particular enthusiasm for medicinal herbs, a photographer, a chess player and in his youth, a billiards player. On Sundays he
ROWLANDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Lleyn; 1802 - 1865), Wesleyan minister, and bibliographer examine and collect books. The first fruits of his researches appeared in Y Traethodydd for 1852-3, under the title of ' Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry ' ('Bibliography of the Welsh'). He proposed to issue the work, when completed, as a fifteen-shilling volume. The work was not published, however, until 1869, four years after his death, when it was prepared for the press and edited by Daniel Silvan Evans and
SALISBURY, THOMAS (1567? - 1620), publisher translator of the (incomplete) Rhann o Psalmae …, during the plague sickness of 1603, and adds that the printing of the Basilikon was not completed. William Middleton's Psalmae is dedicated to Sir Thomas Myddelton, kinsman of the translator and patron of the publisher. As has been shown by E. D. Jones (N.L.W. Jnl., i, 52-3), Sir Thomas Myddelton, on 5 January 1593/4, advanced £10 to ' Thomas Salisbury
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
SAMUEL, EDWARD (1674 - 1748), cleric, poet, and author Ddyledswydd Dyn (Shrewsbury, 1718); (c) Prif ddledswyddau Christion : sef angenrhaid a mawrlles gweddi gyffredin a mynych gymmuno (Shrewsbury, John Rhydderch, 1722/3; 1793 ed. printed at Chester) - from the original by William Beveridge, bishop of St Asaph; the first of the two works, published together, was dedicated to judge Robert Price, Giler, Denbighshire, and the second to Watkin Williams Wynne [sic
SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician recommenced work in Garn-goch pit 3, where David Rhys Grenfell (later a Member of Parliament for Gower) was one of his workmates. He took an interest in socialist activities and was one of the secretaries of Swansea Labour Society. In a Socialist holiday school in Caister-on-sea he met Harriott Sawyer Polkinghorne, a London schoolmistress. They were married in 1911 and she strongly urged him to devote
SANDBROOK, JOHN ARTHUR (1876 - 1942), journalist Born at Swansea, 3 May 1876, second son of Thomas Sandbrook and his wife Harriet Sarah (née Lotherington). He was educated at Swansea grammar school and became an outstanding personality in British journalism. He began his journalistic career at Swansea in 1892, becoming chief assistant editor of The Western Mail after serving in the Boer War (1899-1902) when he was awarded the Queen's Medal with
SCOURFIELD, Sir JOHN HENRY (1808 - 1876), author sons. In 1862 on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle William Henry Scourfield, of Moat and Robeston Hall, he assumed the name and arms of Scourfield. He was cr. a baronet by Disraeli on 18 February 1876 but he died on 3 June of the same year. The titles of five publications by Scourfield, all of which are scarce, are given in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, iii, 37-8. The
SHADRACH, AZARIAH (1774 - 1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author large number of popular books of a homiletic nature bearing long and allegorical titles - (1) Allwedd Myfyrdod, 1801; (2) Breuddwyd … un o drigolion Bethsemes, 1802-3?; (3) Drws i'r Meddwl Segur, 1804; (4) A Looking-glass, 1807; (5) Perlau Calfaria, 1808; (6) Clorianau Aur, 1809; (7) Blodau Paradwys, 1810; (8) Trysorau'r Groes, 1811; (9) Goleuni Caersalem, 1812; (10) Rhosyn Saron, 1816; (11) Udgorn y
SIBLY, Sir THOMAS FRANKLIN (1883 - 1948), geologist and university administrator Born 25 October 1883 in Bristol, son of Thomas Dix Sibly and his wife Virginia (née Tonkin). He was educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, and at St. Dunstan's, Burnham-on-sea, and gained a 1st-class hons. degree in experimental physics (University of London) at the University College of Bristol in 1903. He turned to geology at Birmingham University and he was Exhibition Research Scholar at

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