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Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (1886-1971) was a Welsh biographer and historian. He was educated privately and studied art under Stanhope Forbes. He entered the Army in WW1 and served in France, Macedonia and Turkey. After the war he wrote mainly biographies and humour, but also produced several inverted mystery novels.
He married Eileen Hynes in 1916 and had two children. She died in 1943. Their son, John Sebastian, an architect, married Shirley Hughes.
His best-known book is The Vicar's Experiments (1932), written under the pseudonym Anthony Rolls.