Scholarship is not the preserve of universities and academics alone. Given the opportunity, incentive and will, we all could add to human knowledge and understanding. W. Arvon Roberts exemplifies this possibility. Retired postman become historian and writer, for over 30 years he has researched the little known story of Welsh emigrants to the United States of America and of their descendants. His indexed archive of over 1,200 biographical notes on distinguished Welsh Americans now graces the National Library of Wales (NLW) at Aberystwyth.rnFrom this pioneering collection W. Arvon Roberts has selected 150 biographies which he considers to be of wide interest - presidents, millionaires, Hollywood stars, architects, soldiers, gangsters. There are many, many surprises. Presidents and Vice Presidents of Welsh ancestry include John Adams, Jefferson Finis Davis (Confederate States of America), James Abram Garfield, William Henry Harrison, Hubert Horatio Humphrey (Vice-President), Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James Monroe, Richard Millhouse Nixon.
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机译：奖学金并非仅是大学和学者的保护。有了机会，动机和意志，我们所有人都可以增加人类的知识和理解。 W. Arvon Roberts证明了这种可能性。退休的邮递员成为历史学家和作家，在30多年的时间里，他研究了鲜为人知的威尔士移民到美利坚合众国及其后代的故事。他为索引的1200多个威尔士美国人传记记录编入索引，现在位于阿伯里斯特威斯（Aberystwyth）的威尔士国家图书馆（NLW）。恩·W·雅芳·罗伯茨（W. Arvon Roberts）从他的开创性收藏集中挑选了150幅他认为引起广泛关注的传记-总统，百万富翁，好莱坞明星，建筑师，士兵，徒。有很多很多惊喜。威尔士血统的总统和副总统包括约翰·亚当斯，杰斐逊·菲尼斯·戴维斯（美利坚合众国），詹姆斯·艾布拉姆·加菲尔德，威廉·亨利·哈里森，休伯特·霍拉肖·汉弗莱（副总统），托马斯·杰斐逊，亚伯拉罕·林肯，詹姆斯·门罗，理查德·米尔豪斯·尼克松。
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