Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, WILLIAM THOMAS (Alaw Ddu; 1838 - 1904), musician Born 29 September 1838 in the village of Pwll-y-glaw, near Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Glamorganshire, the son of Thomas and Mary Rees, natives of Laleston, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire. The family moved to Aberdare in 1851 where, after the death of his father, the son began to work, when still young, in a coal-mine. He came under the influence of John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) and other musicians who lived
REICHEL, Sir HENRY RUDOLF (1856 - 1931), principal of University College, Bangor College of North Wales, Bangor, and held that office until his retirement in 1927. He gathered around him a band of young scholars of high distinction, among whom were Henry Jones and W. Rhys Roberts and continued to build well on sure foundations. The developments which he most prized were the schools of agriculture and forestry, the department of music, and the school of theology, which united in a
RHISIART ap ROBERT Nantlle, Plas Newydd - see GLYN
RHYS CAIN (d. 1614), herald bard book, in which he entered his genealogical poems, was lost in the Wynnstay fire, 1859, but a considerable body of his work for the period 1574-90 survives in holograph (Peniarth MS 68 and Peniarth MS 69), and a collection of his elegies in (NLW MS 433B). Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt regarded him as his mentor in genealogy. Ten letters written to him are preserved in Peniarth MS 327 and in Peniarth MS
RHYS, ERNEST (PERCIVAL) (1859 - 1946), poet, author, and editor Born 17 July 1859 in Islington, London, son of John Rhys, a native of Carmarthen, who was a publisher's assistant in London, and Emma, daughter of Robert Percival, Hockerell, Hertfordshire. Soon after the birth of their son the parents went to live in Nott Square, Carmarthen, from where Ernest Rhys went to his first school; they afterwards proceeded to Newcastle-on-Tyne. It was from Newcastle-on
RHYS, JOHN DAVID (1534 - 1609?), physician and grammarian discussion of Welsh prosody. As a work of scholarship it has very little merit, because the author, who had none of the gifts of Gruffydd Robert or Dr. John Davies for analysing the structure of language, adopted the grammatical framework of Latin and forced the Welsh language into that. In the section on prosody, whole passages have been taken word for word from the bardic treatises, and time and again it
RICE family Newton, Dynevor, Pembrokeshire in 1594 (rental £47 19s. 9½d.), and his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Mansell of Margam, probably gave him the influential support of his brother-in-law, admiral Sir Robert Mansell. Lewys Dwnn, whose pedigree of the family was signed by Walter Rice, described him as 'one of James I pensioners.' He was knighted in 1603. In the next generation, HENRY RICE (c. 1590 - c. 1651
RICHARD ap JOHN (fl. 1578-1611) Scorlegan, Llangynhafal, gentleman, poet, patron of bards, and copyist He traced his pedigree through Edwin ap Grono to Hywel Dda and Rhodri Mawr. His father, John Wyn ap Robert ap Griffith, was a waiter in the queen's ewry, but he died of the plague before the children, Richard, John Wyn, and Catherine, had reached their majority. Lewis ab Edward and Gruffudd Hiraethog wrote elegies on his death. The children and their mother, Margaret, daughter of Griffith ab
RICHARDS family Coed, Caerynwch, The families of Richards of Coed and Humphreys of Caerynwch were united when, on 7 October 1785, Sir Richard Richards (below) of Coed, married Catherine, daughter and heiress of Robert Vaughan Humphreys, of Caerynwch, a marriage which meant also the union of the two respective estates. Later, in 1863, Richard Meredyth Richards married Louisa Janette Anne, daughter and heiress of Edward Lloyd
RICHARDS, ROBERT (1884 - 1954), historian and politician
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1878 - 1962), librarian and historian 1958 and an hon. LL.D. degree of the University of Wales in 1959. In 1912 he married Mary Roberts of Nantlle; they had two daughters. He died 24 June 1962 and was buried in Bangor City Cemetery.
RICHARDSON, EVAN (1759 - 1824), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster , and was at Ystradmeurig under Edward Richard, but came under the spell of Daniel Rowland, parted with his Anglican career (and, in consequence, with his own family), and opened a school near Llanddewi-brefi. While accompanying an itinerant exhorter to North Wales, he himself began preaching, in 1781. On the advice of Robert Jones of Rhoslan (1745 - 1829), he opened a school at Brynengan (1782

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