Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PROBERT, LEWIS (1837 - 1908), Independent minister and college principal membership of the church. He began to preach in 1862 and went to the Rev. Henry Oliver of Pontypridd's preliminary school. In the summer of 1863 he was admitted to Brecon Independent College. He made rapid progress in his studies and long before he had finished his course Bodringallt, formerly Gelligaled, chapel had taken him to its heart. In July 1867 he was ordained there as its first minister. At that
PRYSE family Gogerddan, 28 July 1866) of the present line. 'Plas Gogerddan' and much of the estate was acquired by Aberystwyth University College in August 1950. Sir PRYSE PRYSE, bart. (1838 - 1906) was succeeded by three of his sons: Edward (1862 - 1918); Lewes (1864 - 1946) who was primarily responsible for initiating the movement to found the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show; and George (1870 - 1948) who in turn was
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters , Greek, and Latin, but his main interest lay in the history and literature of Wales. The upshot was that, in 1857, the implements of his craft were laid aside and he went to Denbigh to work in Gee's office, mostly on the Gwyddoniadur and the dictionaries. Shortly after the death of his son, Golyddan (below), November 1862, he went to Bangor to try and earn a living by his pen. Sometimes he was in great
PUGHE, ELIZABETH ('Eliza') (1826 - 1847), deaf illustrator the translator of Meddygon Myddfai ('The Physicians of Myddfai'). He was a friend of the teacher and poet Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd). Eliza's other brother, David William Pughe (1821-1862), was a poet and antiquarian as well as being an accomplished surgeon. According to a biographical note in her pictorial bilingual English/Welsh dictionary, Eliza Pughe lived from 1831 to 1850 (sic) in Coch y Big
PUGHE, JOHN (Ioan ab Hu Feddyg; 1814 - 1874), physician and littérateur ; she died 14 September 1862, at Penhelyg, Aberdovey. Four of their sons were physicians, John Eliot Howard (died 1880), Rheinallt Navalaw, Taliesin William Owen (died 1893), who practised at Liverpool, and David Roberts (died 1885), who lived in Montgomeryshire. Their daughter was BUDDUG ANWYLINI PUGHE, the artist, who died in Liverpool, 2 March, 1939, at the age of 83. Buddug Pughe wrote a history
PURNELL, THOMAS (1834 - 1889), author Born at Tenby. He matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, 1852, and later went to London, where he became a journalist and writer. From 1862 until 1866 he was assistant secretary and librarian of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He wrote to the Athenaeum under the pseudonym ' Q '; he also founded a small club, the ' Decemviri,' with A. C. Swinburne, J. McN. Whistler
REES, THOMAS (1862 - 1951), breeder of Welsh cobs Born 31 January 1862 one of the 10 children, 3 girls and 7 boys, of James Rees and Mary, his wife, who lived at Sarnicol, the cottage in Capel Cynon, Cardiganshire, in which Thomas Jacob Thomas was born in 1873. The Rees family moved to Dolau Llethi, Llannarth where Thomas at the age of 8 was a shepherd in summer, working for a time alongside Evan Pan Jones, and attended school at Talgarreg in
REES, THOMAS (1815 - 1885), Independent minister, and historian should jointly undertake a history of Welsh Independency. They came to agreement in 1862; publication began in 1870; and the work was completed in 1875, in four volumes (Thomas added a fifth in 1891). The work had been planned in such a way as to leave the older and more historic congregations to Rees, and the more modern to Thomas; but Rees's eyesight began to suffer, and in the event Thomas had to
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 .' This volume was followed by Emmanuel, i, 1862, ii, 1867, a vast epic in blank verse; Twr Dafydd, sef Salmau Dafydd ar Gân, 1875; and Cathlau Henaint, 1878. His best known hymn is 'Dyma gariad fel y moroedd.' In prose we get Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr, 1877, of which there was another impression in 1940; Llythyrau'r Hen Ffarmwr, 1878, selected from the Amserau - another selection appeared in 1939
RICHARDS, DAVID (1822 - 1900), musician invitation of the Reverend C. Gwion he went as a schoolmaster to Cefn Cantref, near Brecon. In 1851 he was admitted to the Congregational College, Brecon, where he stayed four years, during which time he also became precentor at the Plough chapel. He was ordained in September 1855, as minister of Siloam Congregational church, Lanelli, Brecknock, which he left in 1862, to become minister of Bethel chapel
RICHARDS, HENRY BRINLEY (1819 - 1885), musician ; and 'Overture in F minor' (published at Paris in 1840 and performed at the Chester eisteddfod of 1860), a concerto for piano and orchestra, choral pieces ('Cenwch udgorn yn Seion,' 'Let the hills resound,' etc.). His best-remembered piece, as far as Welsh people are concerned, is 'God bless the prince of Wales' (1862). His Songs of Wales, first published in 1873, had a very wide circulation, in this

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