Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, THOMAS (1825 - 1908), minister (CM) biographies: Cofiant y diweddar Barch. Ebenezer Williams, Aberhonddu (1882) and (with D.M. Phillips) Cofiant a phregethau y diweddar David James, Llaneurwg (1895). Several volumes of his sermons were published and he was a contributor to Y Traethodydd, Y Drysorfa, Y Cylchgrawn, The Treasury and The British Quarterly Review. Dr. R. Tudur Jones said of him that ' he was a man of considerable learning and a
REES, THOMAS IFOR (1890 - 1977), HM Ambassador Germany. His orders were to remain in Venezuela for the duration of the war. After the war, in 1919, he married Elizabeth Phillips of Trefaes Uchaf, Llangwyrfon, Ceredigion, and between 1920 and 1930 they had four children - Morfudd, Ceredig, Nest and Geraint. Despite travelling a great deal, his Welshness remained very important to Ifor Rees and he ensured his children were taught Welsh wherever the
RHYS ap THOMAS Sir (1449 - 1525), chief Welsh supporter of Henry VII , daughter of Henri ap Gwilym of Cwrt Henri, and (2) Janet, daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, who was widow of Thomas Stradling of S. Donats. He died in 1525 and was buried in Greyfriars church, Carmarthen. His body was later removed to S. Peters church; the tomb there was restored in 1865. His widow died at Picton castle in 1535 and was also buried in Greyfriars church. His estates, though not his
RICE family Newton, Dynevor, of Cwmgwili), engaged in a violent struggle with the Tories of west Wales, led by Sir John Philipps of Picton (see Philipps of Picton) to control the borough of Carmarthen between 1738 and 1764. He was Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire, 1754-79. During the long Whig monopoly of power, which ended with the death of George II in 1760, he was a follower of the Pelhams. Appointed lord-lieutenant
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor of a Methodist minister from Arfon and a former pupil of the Salop School. It was not unexpected that the company, in addition to its London clients, had developed a professional link with the Calvinistic Methodist Church and its ministers, with Roberts giving advice, in 1908, to the Reverend R. Silyn Roberts on an accusation of libel made against him by another minister, (D. M. Phillips
ROBERTS, EVAN JOHN (Y Diwygiwr, the Revivalist; 1878 - 1951), revivalist preacher prayed for thirteen years for a religious revival in Wales. At the close of 1903 he began to preach in Moriah, Loughor, and he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry by the Presbyterian Church of Wales. At the end of September 1904 he entered the school kept by John Phillips, Newcastle Emlyn, to prepare himself for the ministry. Religious life was being awoken in south Cardiganshire at the time
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist to study Philosophy and Theology. After graduating BA at Aberystwyth, he followed BD courses at the United Theological College and trained as a Calvinistic Methodist minister at Bala College where he came under the influence of Professor David Phillips, an early admirer of Freudian ideas who made practical use of psychoanalysis on Roberts amongst others (See his article on Phillips 'Yr Athro
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet contain theology, … theology that had been through the furnace of experience.' Their experiental, trustful sympathy with the human condition is what made his hymns such useful favourites with the fragile congregations of these late times. His most famous hymn is probably “Gweddi Heddiw” ('O, tyred i'n gwaredu, Iesu da') for which Haydn Phillips composed the prize-winning tune “Bro Aber” at the 1983
ROBERTS, ROBERT MEIRION (1906 - 1967), minister (Presb. C. of Wales and Presb. C. of Scotland), philosopher and poet company in the person of Principal David Phillips - he contributed a memoir of him to the volume Deg o enwogion (1959). He contributed articles fairly regularly on philosophical and theological topics to Yr Efrydydd, Efrydiau Athronyddol, Y Drysorfa, Y Llenor and Y Drysorfa. He was a member of the British Institute of Philosophy from 1929 onwards. He was also highly regarded as a poet, and much of his
ROWLANDS, Sir ARCHIBALD (1892 - 1953), administrator taking unfair advantage; he was an interesting and humorous companion. His colleagues saw a poetic streak in him and an eloquence, they thought, that related to his Welsh background. He was made president of the Welsh Society in New Delhi. He was made K.C.B. in 1941 and G.C.B. in 1947. He was married in Swansea on 15 September 1920 to Constance May Phillips, one of his college contemporaries and
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer Morgan and Mary Evans; and his niece Elinor Lloyd. Saunders is best remembered for his literary work. His exercises and notes in NLW MS 3260B indicate that he was versed in Welsh strict metres, and much of his poetry was published, e.g. Ychydig a Bennillion Profiadol yn cynnwys Griddfaniad Hiraethlawn Dafydd Saunders, 1815; Dwy Awdl: y gyntaf or Elusengarwch, … yr ail, ar Farwolaeth Syr Thomas Picton
SAUNDERS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1724), divine Born in the parish of Clydey, north Pembrokeshire, the son of Tobias Saunders of Cilrhedyn, Pembrokeshire, and Lettice Phillips of Penboyr, Carmarthenshire. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 20 March 1690 (graduated B.A. 1693, M.A. 1696, B.D. 1705, and D.D. 1712. As a student he aided Edward Lhuyd in the collection of archaeological information regarding Pembrokeshire and

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