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ROGERS, JOHN (bu farw 1738), bookseller and printer Son of Reynold Rogers, grocer, London, and possibly a nephew of Gabriel Rogers (died 1705), to whose bookselling business at Shrewsbury John Rogers may have succeeded. He began to print c. 1706, and it is possible that his first book was A Sermon preach'd at the Funeral of … James Owen, Minister of the Gospel in Shrewsbury. April the 11th, 1706. By Matthew Henry, 1706? In 1707 he printed two
ROWLAND(S), ELLIS (1621 - 1691), early nonconformist .' In 1666 we find Philip Henry sending him copies of Baxter's Call to be distributed. His house was licensed under the 1672 Act of Indulgence, yet, strangely, we find no mention of him in Henry Maurice's report of 1665 nor in Dr. Daniel Williams's report to the Fund Board in 1690. John Pinney (another ejected minister) stayed with Rowland at Caernarvon in January 1688 (Letters of John Pinney, 1929
ROWLAND, HENRY (1551 - 1616), bishop of Bangor
ROWLAND(S), WILLIAM (1887 - 1979), schoolmaster and author district. He lost his mother in May 1889 before attaining his second birthday. He was educated initially at Rhiw board school (1891-1901) and at the old school Botwnnog (1901-05) founded according to the will of Bishop Henry Rowland in 1616. He spent the two years (1905-07) as an uncertificated teacher at nearby Llaniestyn before entering the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in October 1907. He
ROWLANDS, CEINWEN (1905 - 1983), singer Born 15 January 1905 in Holyhead, Anglesey, the only child of William Rowlands and his wife Kate (Jones). Her father, who was a native of Holyhead, kept the Anglesey Emporium, a men's outfitters shop, until his retirement in 1929; her mother, who came from Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, was a well known singer. Educated at Morgan Jones's school, Holyhead and Bangor County School for Girls, Ceinwen
ROWLANDS, HENRY (1655 - 1723), antiquary important work was Mona Antiqua Restaurata, which was published in Dublin in 1723, a second impression being issued in 1766 under the editorship of Dr. Henry Owen (1716 - 1795). In this work the principal relics of the past are listed and an effort is made to prove that Anglesey was the chief seat of the druids. He was not successful in his attempt to trace the derivation of Welsh words. He corresponded
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, 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
ROWLANDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Lleyn; 1802 - 1865), Wesleyan minister, and bibliographer Geiriadur Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru (Liverpool, 1870), and referred to it there as the ' Lleyn MSS. ' A memoir of Rowlands, by his son-in-law, R. Morgan, appeared in the twelve issues of Yr Eurgrawn Wesleaidd for 1868; see also D. Silvan Evans's preface to Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry.
ROWLEY, HAROLD HENRY (1890 - 1969), professor, scholar and author
RUSSON, Sir WILLIAM CLAYTON (1895 - 1968), industrialist Phostrogen company in Corwen. From 1960 onwards he served as an officer of the Order of St. John, becoming Commander in 1962 and Knight in 1968. He was also a Freeman of the City of London. In 1931 he married Gwladys Nellie, the daughter of Henry Markham of Dulwich and they made their home at Glanymawddach near Barmouth. He died on 16 April 1968 and was buried at Caerdeon church cemetery.
SALESBURY, HENRY (1561 - 1637?), grammarian work, a Welsh-Latin dictionary called ' Geirva Tavod Cymraec.' There are Welsh and Latin lines written by him in the form of a cywydd at the beginning of Egluryn Phraethineb, 1595, by Henry Perri - see the edition of that book published by the University of Wales Press, 1930. He is believed to have been the Henry Salesbury who died at Chester, 6 October 1637.

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