Ronald Welch

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.

Books

 * The Black Car Mystery (1950)
 * The Clock Stood Still (1951)
 * The Gauntlet (1951)
 * Knight Crusader † (1954) —winner of the Carnegie Medal
 * Sker House (novel) (1955) (writing as Ronald Felton) (based on Sker House)
 * Ferdinand Magellan (1955)
 * Captain of Dragoons † (1956)
 * "The Long Bow" (1957, booklet consisting of the abridged first three chapters of Bowman of Crécy)
 * Mohawk Valley † (1958)
 * Captain of Foot † (1959)
 * Escape from France † (1960)
 * For the King † (1961)
 * Nicholas Carey † (1963)
 * Bowman of Crécy † (1966)
 * The Hawk † (1967)
 * Sun of York (1970)
 * The Galleon † (1971)
 * Tank Commander † (1972)
 * Zulu Warrior  (1974)
 * Ensign Carey † (1976)
 * The Road to Waterloo † (2018) (posthumous)

† indicates a book in the Carey family series

Short stories

 * "The Kings Hunt" (1963), Swift Annual 1963
 * "The Joust" (1968), Miscellany Five, edited by Edward Blishen
 * "The King's Hunt" (1970), Thrilling Stories of the Past for Boys, edited by Eric Duthie