Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PYRKE, JOHN (1755 - 1834), japanners in 1817 and 1824) was an active public man, a Liberal in politics, and a great supporter of the Lancastrian schools. He sold his factory, in 1826, to Evan Jones (1790 - 1860). He died 1 November 1834, and was buried at Twyn.
REES, DANIEL (1855 - 1931), journalist the Board of Trade. He retired about 1922. While at Caernarvon as editor of The Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald and Yr Herald Cymraeg he made his mark as a Liberal publicist with an independent outlook and a trenchant pen. His papers supported the quarrymen during the protracted Penrhyn strike and opposed the South African War. He was an accomplished linguist and had made a special study of Dante's
REES, DOROTHY MARY (1898 - 1987), Labour politician and alderman especially prominent role in local government circles over many years. She became an alderman of the council and was its chairman in 1964-65 (only the second woman to occupy that position). She served as the Labour MP for the highly marginal Barry constituency for one single parliament from 1950 until 1951, serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Shirley Summerskill, the Minister of National
REES, JAMES (1803 - 1880), printer and publisher both newspapers until 1871, when they were taken over by John Evans, Caellenor, Caernarvon. An alderman and mayor on more than one occasion, he also acted as high bailiff of the County Court at Caernarvon. In politics he was a staunch Liberal. He died 21 June 1880 at Castle Street, Caernarvon.
REES, MERLYN (1920 - 2006), politician was as much about emphasising the cultural side of the wider labour movement, and included sports, shows, and parades and was attended by 150,000 Labour supporters over the 16-17 June 1962 at sites in London and Manchester. Less that a year later, after a brief period as a lecturer in Economics at Luton Polytechnic, he was Labour's candidate to replace its late Leader, Hugh Gaitskell,, as MP for
REES, THOMAS (1869 - 1926), principal of Bala-Bangor Independent College Uchaf, near Brecon. He threw himself into the public life of Brecknock as a whole-hearted Liberal, and was co-opted a member of the county education committee, of which he subsequently became chairman. He was appointed principal of the Bala-Bangor College, 14 April 1909, which appointment he held until his death. He had set his heart on raising the standard of theological studies in Wales and so
RENDEL, STUART (1st baron Rendel), (1834 - 1913), industrialist, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist Born at Plymouth, 2 July 1834, third son of James Meadows Rendel and Catherine his wife. Educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1856, he was called to the Bar, and later interested himself in engineering and ultimately became London manager of the Armstrong gunnery company. In 1880 he entered Parliament as Liberal member for Montgomeryshire, breaking the Conservative
RHYDDERCH HAEL (or HEN), king of Alclyde (Dumbarton, near Glasgow) Arfderydd, which was fought, according to Harl. MS. 3859 (Cymm., ix, 155) in 573. In the triads he is named as one of the 'three liberal ones of the Island of Britain' (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 389), his court is said to have been devastated by Aidan, king of the Scots, 574-606 (ibid., 391), and 'Drudlwyd' is given as the name of his steed (Black Book of Carmarthen, 28. 5). According to the
RHŶS, ELIZABETH (1841 - 1911), teacher, hostess and campaigner for women's rights her safety, she moved to Vienna, sending a letter from there, dated 27 September 1870, to the liberal Welsh Calvinistic Methodist weekly, Y Goleuad. This was the first in a series of letters to the paper from the continent, with two subsequent letters, on 4 January and 25 March 1871, written from Berlin. Elspeth expressed her distrust of the views of the British press regarding the war, described
RHYS-WILLIAMS, BRANDON MEREDITH (1927 - 1988), Conservative politician He was born on 14 November 1927, the son of Sir Rhys Rhys Williams, Bart., (1865-1955) DSO, QC, who had served as the Liberal MP for the Banbury division from the general election of 1918 until the general election of 1922. He inherited his father's estate Miskin Manor in Glamorgan, which ran to some 800 acres, after which the baronetcy was named. His mother, Juliet Rhys-Williams (1898-1964), was
RHYS-WILLIAMS, Sir RHYS (1865 - 1955), first Baronet created 1918, and a judge 1915 and a medal of the Order of St. Vladimir by Russia in 1916 for his gallantry. He spent the latter half of 1917 in the War Office, followed by a year in the Admiralty Office. He served as a Coalition Liberal M.P. for Banbury (1918-22), and during his brief period as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport, Sir Eric Geddes, he drafted a bill unifying the railways into five main groups
RICHARD, HENRY (1812 - 1888), politician such conferences and the oversight of some of the Society's publications. He sought, too, to interpret Wales to the English; he wrote to the English press to explain the Rebecca Riots, and in 1866 published a series of letters upon the social and political condition of Wales. In 1865 he had come out as a Liberal candidate for Cardiganshire, but withdrew; in 1868 he was elected, by a large majority

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