[3] Roger Boore was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1938, and was brought up in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, where he attended Warwick School.
He was awarded a degree in classics (“Literae Humaniores”) at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1961 and a PhD in history at University of Wales Swansea in 2005.
He was a life-long enthusiast of the Welsh language, which he began learning in his teens.
[4][6][8] Under Boore's management Dref Wen also produced bilingual and educational books for children (as it continues to do).
Boore translated many children's books into Welsh, from a variety of languages, for publication by Dref Wen.