Rowland H. Rash

DW 's husband, Rowland Rash , died at home of bronchopneumonia and other complaints.

During the 1970s DW 's husband, Rowland Rash , underwent a decline both in body and mind. He became frail and confused in a way that was immensely painful to his wife.

DW got married (from the house of a paternal uncle) at Helensburgh in Scotland to Suffolk farmer Rowland Harry Rash , whom she had known for a couple of years.

DW , in the midst of her own and her husband 's personal and practical struggle with the Tithe Laws, published with Victor Gollancz a controlled but furious polemic entitled The Tithe War.

Bailiffs arrived at Wortham Manor, where DW and her husband farmed, and impounded fifteen bullocks and 134 pigs, mostly ready for market. The animals, distrained for non-payment of tithes, were to be auctioned.

Twenty or more Blackshirts from the British Union of Fascists set up camp at the Wortham farm of DW and her husband (who were not Fascist sympathisers), claiming to protect the interests of the farmer...

The Siege of Wortham ended when the pigs and cattle legally distrained at the manor, home of DW and her husband , were roughly but efficiently removed, while police controlled the potentially hostile crowds.

She presented a copy of each of her books to her husband , inscribed: R. H. Rash, with love from the author. But he and most of her family never read her books, though...