Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RANKIN, SUSANNAH JANE (1897 - 1989), minister (Cong.) and missionary in Papua taken place. The same year, she married the Reverend Robert Rankin and they continued the work together for 26 years establishing new churches and ministering to thousands. In 1957, when the Chalmers Memorial Theological College was opened, the husband and wife missionaries were appointed Principal and Professor at the new College, even though it was four to five hundred miles west of Saroa where they
RAVENSCROFT family Ravenscroft, Robert Davies of Gwysaney, and three of his sons must be recorded: (1) THOMAS RAVENSCROFT, the eldest son, sheriff Public and Social Service, Civil Administration in 1606-7, died in 1630. Two of his sons were ROBERT RAVENSCROFT (1589 - 1640; Member of Parliament in 1614) and THOMAS RAVENSCROFT, originator of the separate line of ' Ravenscroft of Pickhill ' in Denbighshire (but near Bangor-on-Dee - see
RECORDE, ROBERT (d. 1558)
RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1512 - 1558), mathematician and physician Robert Recorde was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the second of two sons of Thomas Recorde of Tenby and Ros Johns, daughter of Thomas ap John ap Sion, of Machynlleth. This was a second marriage for Thomas, the first to Joan Ysteven of Tenby being of short duration and childless. Thomas Recorde inherited a mercantile business founded in the town by the boys' paternal grandfather Roger Recorde. It
REES, GEORGE (1873 - 1950), poet and hymnwriter (CM), Williamstown, where his father was an elder. In 1900 he married Kate Ann, daughter of Thomas Roberts, chief accountant at the Oakeley Slate Quarries, Blaenau Ffestiniog and for a time lived at Pont Rhondda, where he was elected an elder of his church. He moved to London to work in the milk trade. Here a milkman with the surname Maycock covered the same round and to avoid confusion George
REES, HENRY (1798 - 1869), most famous minister among the Calvinistic Methodists in his day regularly with but few exceptions at Association meetings to the end of his life. He made an intense study of the work of Puritan divines, especially Dr. John Owen. He was ordained at Bala in June 1827. He married Mary Roberts, of Shrewsbury, 20 October 1830, and had four children of whom three died in infancy; the fourth, Ann, grew up and married Richard Davies (1818 - 1896). He moved to Liverpool at
REES, JOSIAH (1744 - 1804), Unitarian minister first Welsh magazine to find any sort of public. Whether Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) was also concerned in the venture is still not quite clear (see Gomer M. Roberts, Bywyd a Gwaith Peter Williams, 176-84), but modern opinion tends to the contrary. In theology, there is no doubt that Rees was an Arian from his early days; by the end of the century he was a declared Unitarian - his name stands first
REES, MERLYN (1920 - 2006), politician , attending the London School of Economics, where he studied history and economics under Prof. Harold Laski, before returning to Harrow Weald School to run the sixth form from 1949 to 1960. He also completed a master's degree in 1955. In 1949 he married Colleen Cleveley (b. 1927). They had three sons, Patrick Merlyn (b. 1954), Gareth David (b. 1956) and Glyn Robert (b. 1960). During the 1950s, Rees became
REES, ROBERT (Eos Morlais; 1841 - 1892), vocalist and musician
REES, ROBERT OLIVER (1819 - 1881), apothecary, publisher, and author
REES, WILLIAM (1808 - 1873), printer and publisher , too, that the publications of the Welsh MSS. Society, 1836, were issued, among which may be mentioned Lewis Dwnn's Heraldic Visitations, 1846; Llyfr Llandaf, 1850; Iolo MSS., 1852; Lives of the Cambro-British Saints, 1853; Dosparth Edeyrn Davod Aur, 1856; Meddygon Myddfai, 1856; and Barddas, 1862. Among a host of other books published by the Llandovery press we need only mention Robert Williams's
REES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Hiraethog; 1802 - 1883), Independent minister, writer editor, and political leader inherited Chwibren-isaf. The only education William Rees ever had was at the village school during the winter months, and he began to work on the farm and as a shepherd at an early age. However, he proceeded to educate himself, and under the direction of Robert ap Dafydd of Cilfach Lwyd, an old bachelor who lived in a near-by farm, learned the rules of Welsh prosody and in 1826 won the prize at Brecon

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