REES, ROBERT OLIVER (1819 - 1881), apothecary, publisher, and author
Date of birth: 1819
Date of death: 1881
Parent: Ellis Rees
Parent: Catherine Rees (née Oliver)
Gender: Male
Occupation: apothecary, publisher, and author
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Medicine; Printing and Publishing; Science and Mathematics
Author: Daniel Williams
Born at Dolgelley - his mother (Catherine Rees) was a descendant of the family of Owen of Pantphylip, Llangelynnin, Merioneth. He knew Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd) and published a biography of that writer, 1876. He arranged for the publication of Cysondeb y Pedair Efengyl (E. Robinson), 1855, the works of David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) and poems by Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen). A small book which he wrote on Mary Jones, the young Merioneth Welshwoman whose long walk to Bala in order to procure from Thomas Charles a copy of the Welsh Bible led, indirectly, to the foundation of the British and Foreign Bible Society, proved exceedingly popular; it was translated into the language of the Khassis, Assam. R. O. Rees was also largely instrumental in arranging for the erecting of the statue of Thomas Charles at Bala. He died 12 February 1881.
Author
- Reverend Daniel Williams, (1878 - 1968)
- R. Prys Morris, Cantref Meirionydd ei chwedlau, ei hynafiaethau, a'i hanes (1890), 227-8
- D. E. Jenkins, Life of Thomas Charles (Denbigh 1908), ii, 518, iii, 598
- C. Tawelfryn Thomas, Cofiant darluniadol mewn rhyddiaeth a chan i'r diweddar Barch. Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), amddiffynydd merched Cymru
- Robert James (Trebor), Dolgellau yn hanesyddol gydag amryw ddarluniau, 1907
Sources
- 'Marwolaeth a Chladdedigaeth Mr R. O. Rees, Dolgellau,' Y Goleuad, 19 Chwefror 1881, t.4-5
- 'Y Diweddar Mr Robert Oliver Rees, Dolgellau,' Y Dydd, 18 Chwefror 1881, tt.8-9
Further Reading
- Robert Oliver Rees, Mary Jones, y Gymraes fechan heb yr un Beibl, a sefydliad y Feibl-Gymdeithas (Wrexham 1879)
Works
Published date: 1959
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