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Ronald Welch was the pen name of British writer Ronald Oliver Felton TD. He took the name from his wartime service in the Welch Regiment. Welch is best known for children's historical fiction. He won the 1956 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author, for Knight Crusader, the first novel in the so-called Carey Family series.
Welch was born in Aberavon, West Glamorgan, Wales. He was teaching at Bedford Modern School when the Second World War broke out and was a lieutenant in its Officers' Training Corps contingent. In 1940 he was commissioned lieutenant in the Welch Regiment. He reached the rank of major and remained in the Territorial Army after the war.
He was for many years headmaster of Okehampton Grammar School in Devon.
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