Welsh Journals

graph he gives a few reminiscences of the Ladies, together with an inventory of the contents of Plas Newydd. From the inventory it appears that he had in his library copies of the two Royal British Bowmen prints these he lists as follows Ditto [i.e. Coloured Print] of A Bow Meeting at Erddig in 1823," General Yorke sitting on the same bench with the artist, Mr. John Townshend, of Tre- valyn Hall. Tinted Print of an Archery Club held at Gwersyllt in 1790," Warden New- come of Ruthin, scoring for the Ladies, who are shooting for the Royal Prize of 25 Guineas, given by George IV, when Prince of Wales. In 1823 General Yorke would be nine years old, so that he is clearly the little boy shown seated on the bench in the Erddig print. John Townshend would be the young man, also on the bench, in a green suit and with a plume in his hat. (This plume, repre- senting the feathers of the Prince of Wales, who was the patron of the Society, was worn by all members). The date of 1790 given by General Yorke for the Gwersyllt meeting (even though the print was not published until 1794) appears to be confirmed in the following entry in the diary, of the Honourable Eleanor Butler, the elder of the Ladies of Llangollen. Tuesday, October 26th [1790] — Mr. Lloydde of Aston came for an hour. Showed us the Beautiful Prize sent by the Prince of Wales as a prize to be shot for by the Ladies of the Royal British Bowmen. Won by Lady Cunliffe.2 H. N. JERMAN. ROBERT OWEN, SOCIAL REFORMER. Robert Owen (1771-1858; D.N.B. xlii, 444) was described by Leslie Stephen as one of those intolerable bores who are the salt of the earth.' There have been at least five social reforms which can be traced directly to Robert Owen's advocacy :-Factory reform (Act of 1819), Abolition of child labour (New Lanark), Town planning (New Lanark), Unemployment relief, and the Co-operative movement. Because Robert Owen was a Welshman, it has been the policy of the National Library to record and, if possible, to collect everything by, and relating to him. The Library published a bibliography of Robert Owen in 1914, with a second and enlarged edition in 1925.4 A short statistical account of the growth of the collection at the Library may be of interest to readers of this Journal. 1914 1925 1941 Robert Owen's writings 149 175 251 Periodicals edited by Robert Owen 11 12 14 Books and pamphlets on Robert Owen 269 378 642 Articles in Periodicals on Robert Owen 28 4 124 457 629 1,031 I See The Hamwood Papers edited by Mrs. G. H. Bell (London, 1930), p. 265. 2 It was Sir Foster Cunliffe of Acton Park, near Wrexham, who first introduced into the Welsh borderland the Archery Meetings which afterwards became so popular. See My Life and Times by Nimrod [C. J. Apperley], 1927 ed., pp. 92 and 100. 3 The National Library of Wales. A Bibliography of Robert Owen, the Socialist, 1771- 1858 (Aberystwyth, 1914). 4 ¿ Bibliography of Robert Owen, the Socialist, 1771-1858. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged (Aberystwyth, 1925).