Ronald Welch, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ronald Welch

British children's writer

Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1909

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1982

Profession: writer, children's writer, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ronald Welch (14 December 1909 – 5 February 1982) was the pseudonym of Welsh writer Ronald Oliver Felton TD, who wrote in English.
He is best known for children's historical fiction.
He won the 1956 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British author, for Knight Crusader, the first in his so-called Carey Family series of novels.
He was born in Aberavon, West Glamorgan.
He was teaching at Bedford Modern School when the Second World War broke out.
In 1940 he was commissioned lieutenant in the Welch Regiment, to which his pen name refers.
He reached the rank of major and stayed in the Territorial Army after the war.
He was for many years headmaster of Okehampton Grammar School in Devon. Welch's final work, The Road to Waterloo, not strictly speaking part of the Carey family saga but closely connected to it in terms of subject matter, remained unpublished at the time of his death.
It was not until 2018 that it was discovered among his papers and published in a special edition by Smith Settle.