ROWLAND (or ROULAND)
,
DAVID
, ‘of
Anglesey
’ (
fl.
16th cent.
),
translator
, etc.
Anthony
Wood
(
Athen. Oxon.
) says that he was a native of
Anglesey
, who, after reading for some time at
S. Mary's Hall
,
Oxford
, and leaving without a degree, became tutor to the son of the
earl of Lennox
, travelled, and obtained some
knowledge of modern languages
. After his return he became a
tutor
of
Greek
and
Latin
and wrote for the use of his pupils
A Comfortable Aid for Scholars, full of variety of Sentences, gathered out of an Italian author
(
London
,
1578
). He is better known to posterity as the person who ‘drew out of
Spanish
’
The Pleasaunt Historie of Lazarillo de Tormes, a Spaniarde, wherein is contained his maruelous deedes and life. With the straunge aduentures happened to him in the
seruice of sundrie Masters
(
London
,
1586
; and subsequent editions). The
1586
edition is dedicated ‘
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
.
Bibliography:
-
J. E. V. Crofts
(ed.),
The Pleausant Historie of Lazarillo de
Tormes, Drawen out of Spanish by David Rouland of Anglesey,
1586
, Oxford, 1924
,
1586
(Oxford,
1924
); no. vii of ‘The Percy Reprints’).
Author:
Sir William Llewelyn Davies, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A. (1887-1952),
Aberystwyth
