Colwyn Edward ('Anthony Rolls', 'Twm Teg') Vulliamy

Colwyn Edward ('Anthony Rolls', 'Twm Teg') Vulliamy
Born	1886
Died	1971
Residence	Elm Tree Cottage, Hillingdon, Middlesex Ferney, Hedgerley Lane, Beaconsfield, Bucks [1931] 4 Chalcot Crescent, Regent's Park Road, NW1 [1937] Glasbury House, Glasbury, Hereford [1949]
Occupation	literary historian
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1928.01.17

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House Notes

1927.12.20 nominated

Notes From Elsewhere

Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (1886-1971) was a Welsh biographer and historian. He was educated privately and studied art under Stanhope Forbes. He entered the Army in WW1 and served in France, Macedonia and Turkey. After the war he wrote mainly biographies and humour, but also produced several inverted mystery novels. He married Eileen Hynes in 1916 and had two children. She died in 1943. His best-known book is The Vicar's Experiments (1932), written under the pseudonym Anthony Rolls.

Born June 20, 1886 in Radnorshire, Wales, UK
Died September 4, 1971 in Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Birth Name Colwyn Edward Vulliamy
Spouse Eileen Hynes (1916 - 1943) ( her death) ( 2 children)
His novels gently satirize British society and at times the conventions of detective fiction.
Best known for his novels and biographies of the era of Samuel Johnson, he also managed a military career during World War I, was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Royal Anthropological Society, and was interested in field archaeology.
Also uses the pen name "Anthony Holls".

Publications

External Publications

Fusilier Bluff (1918)
Clerical Error (1932) (as by Anthony Rolls)
aka The Vicar's Experiments
Lobelia Grove (1932) (as by Anthony Rolls)
Family Matters (1933) (as by Anthony Rolls)
Judas Maccabaeus (1934)
Scarweather (1934) (as by Anthony Rolls)
The Polderoy Papers (1943)
Doctor Philligo (1944)
Don Among the Dead Men (1952)
The Proud Walkers (1955)
Body in the Boudoir (1956)
Cakes for Your Birthday (1959)
Justice For Judy (1960)
Little Arthur's Guide to Humbug (1960)
Tea At The Abbey (1961)
Floral Tribute (1963)
Calico Pie (1905)
English Letter Writers (1905)
A Short History of the Montagu-puffins (1905)
Charles Kingsley & Christian Socialism (1914)
Red Archives (1915)
Prehistoric Remains in West Penwith (1921)
Our Prehistoric Forerunners (1925)
Immortality (1926)
aka Immortal Man
The Letters of the Tsar to the Tsaritsa, 1914-1917 (1929)
The Archaeology of Middlesex and London, (1930)
Voltaire (1930)
John Welsey (1931)
Rousseau (1931)
James Boswell (1932)
William Penn (1933)
Aspasia (1935)
Mrs. Thrale Of Streatham (1936)
Royal George (1937)
Outlanders (1938)
Crimea (1939)
Edwin & Eleanor (1943)
Ursa Major (1946)
Man and the Atom (1947)
Byron (1948)
Prodwit's Guide to Writing (1949)
The Antomy of Satire (1950)
Henry Plumdew (1950)
Rocking Horse Journey (1952)
The Onslow Family, 1528-1874 (1953)