David Howell, born 1940 near Tenby in West Wales; studied history at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the London School of Economics; 1970 he joined the History Department of Swansea University College where he now holds the post of Senior Lecturer in History; he is a member of the Executive Committee of the British Agricultural History Scoiety; he is a member of the Executive Committee of the British Agricultural History Society; his publications include: "Land and People in NIneteenth-Century Wales"(London, 1978) and "Patriarchs and Parasites: the Gentry of South-West Wales in the Eighteenth Century"(Cardiff, 1986).