Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PUGH, ELLIS (1656 - 1718), Quaker London in 1782 and 1801. A translation into English was also published in 1727. This also was printed at Philadelphia, but by S. Keimer for W. Davies, bookbinder. The English translation was entitled A Salutation to the Britains … Translated from the British Language by Rowland Ellis, Revis'd and corrected by David Lloyd. (There were London editions in 1732, 1739, and 1793).
PUGH, LEWIS HENRY OWAIN (1907 - 1981), soldier Major-General Lewis Pugh, son of Major H.O. Pugh (1874-1954) and his wife Edith Mary née Smith, was born at the family home, Cymerau, Glandyfi, Ceredigion, 18 May 1907. He was educated at Wellington College and Woolwich Royal Military Academy and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1927. After a period with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine he was posted to India where he fulfilled a
PUGH, WILLIAM JOHN (1892 - 1974), Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain contributions to the advancement, teaching and organization of geological sciences he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1951, and knighted in 1956. He married in London during summer 1919 Manon Clayton Davies Bryan (died 1973), second daughter of Joseph Davies Bryan, Alexandria, Egypt; they had four sons. He died 18 March 1974 at 171 Oakwood Court, Kensington, London.
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, . The last of the Hafod-y-wern family was Frances, daughter of PHILIP PULESTON (died 1776); she married, in 1786, Bryan Cooke, of Ouston, Yorks (see Davies-Cooke, Gwysaney). (3) A cadet branch of the Puleston family of Hafod-y-wern flourished at Caernarvon for part of the 16th century, its founder being the son by his first marriage (to Elin, daughter of Robert Whitney), of John Puleston ('Hen'), Sir
PULESTON, Sir JOHN HENRY (1829 - 1908), banker and Member of Parliament was interested in every Welsh national movement. He had acted as vice-president of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion, treasurer of the National Eisteddfod Association, 1880-1907, and first chairman of the committee of the London Welsh club. He died 19 October 1908. His sister, Mary Ann Puleston (Mair Clwyd) was the mother of John Puleston Jones.
PUW family, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, that Robert Puw and his family, and William Davies, the martyr (died 1593), had been hiding in Rhiwledyn cave on the Little Orme for three quarters of a year and, while there, had been engaged in printing Y Drych Cristianogawl. From there, he fled to Lancashire and then to Cowdray, Sussex, the home of lord Montague. At the time of Sir William Stanley's plot he was regarded as one who could be relied
RANKIN, SUSANNAH JANE (1897 - 1989), minister (Cong.) and missionary in Papua contribution by conferring on her an Honorary M.A. degree in 1973. In presenting her for that degree, Alun Davies, professor of History at Swansea, referred to her 'not only as a preacher and religious educator, but … also a linguist and translator.' She retuned to Wales on numerous occasions over the years, visiting the different churches in turn, but it was sad to hear her say in 1973 that it was going to
RATHBONE, MARY FRANCES (d. 1937) - see RATHBONE, WILLIAM
RATHBONE, WILLIAM (1819 - 1902), philanthropist -niece (see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 134), MARY FRANCES RATHBONE (died 1937), did much for the University College at Bangor, and for the adult education movement; she received an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Wales in 1934.
RAVENSCROFT family Ravenscroft, ) in Hawarden church; he was Member of Parliament for his shire in 1563-7; his wife, Dorothy, was the heiress of John Davies, constable of Hawarden castle and owner of Broadlane hard by, which she brought into the family. (Elizabeth, sister of George Ravenscroft, married the lord chancellor Egerton whose romantic story is narrated in the D.N.B.) Of George's children, his daughter Katherine married
RECORDE, ROBERT (d. 1558) and queen Mary. In 1549 he was appointed comptroller of the Mint at Bristol and two years later, general surveyor of the mines and money in England and Ireland.He died in the King's Bench prison in Southwark, in 1558; probate of his will made there was granted on 18 June of that year. His family appears to have resided in the Maudlins, which had been a medieval foundation for lepers just outside the
RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1512 - 1558), mathematician and physician over some eleven editions, the last appearing in 1679 under the revised title The Judgement of Urines. Despite popular legend, Recorde was never physician to either Edward VI or Mary I, the confusion probably arising because he dedicated books to both these monarchs. Shortly after Recorde arrived in London, the antiquarian John Leland (c.1503-1552) related to him a curious story. Entrusted by Henry

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