<sod>'''John Rowlands''' ("Giraldus"; 1824-1891) was a Welsh [[antiquary]] and educator.<ref name="Jones">{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Evan David|title=ROWLAND(S), JOHN (Giraldus; 1824 - 1891)|url=http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-PHIL-THO-1792.html|publisher=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|accessdate=7 April 2016}}</ref> He received his pension from the Education Department, according to the code, for his services as a schoolmaster for nearly forty years. He was one of the first students who entered [[Carmarthen College]], and one of the first who went out as pioneers of education in [[South Wales]], when schoolmasters' salaries ranged from thirty pounds to forty pounds a year. He established ten new schools in localities where there were no schools before. He carried one school on for twelve months without receiving any salary. His other services were enumerated by the Rector of [[Merthyr]] and others, in the ''[[Western Mail (Wales) |Western Mail]]'' and other papers, when he had a paralytic seizure.{{sfn|Wilkins|Harris|1885|p=622}}<eod>
<sod>'''John Rowlands''' ("Giraldus"; 1824, Nanteos Arms, [[Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion]] - 1891) was a Welsh [[antiquary]] and educator.<ref name="Jones">{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Evan David|title=ROWLAND(S), JOHN (Giraldus; 1824 - 1891)|url=http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-PHIL-THO-1792.html|publisher=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|accessdate=7 April 2016}}</ref> He received his pension from the Education Department, according to the code, for his services as a schoolmaster for nearly forty years. He was one of the first students who entered [[Carmarthen College]], and one of the first who went out as pioneers of education in [[South Wales]], when schoolmasters' salaries ranged from thirty pounds to forty pounds a year. He established ten new schools in localities where there were no schools before. He carried one school on for twelve months without receiving any salary. His other services were enumerated by the Rector of [[Merthyr]] and others, in the ''[[Western Mail (Wales) |Western Mail]]'' and other papers, when he had a paralytic seizure.{{sfn|Wilkins|Harris|1885|p=622}}<eod>