Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RHYL of HOLYWELL, Baron - see BIRCH, EVELYN NIGEL CHETWODE
RHYS, WALTER FITZURYAN (1873 - 1956), nobleman and politician Born at Dursley, Gloucestershire, 17 August 1873, son of Arthur de Cardonnel, 6th Baron, and Selina Lascelles (of the Earls of Harewood). He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He returned to Dynevor Castle in 1898 on marrying Lady Margaret Child-Villiers, eldest daughter of the Earl of Jersey. Involvement in running the estate did not prevent his serving the Government as private
RICE family Newton, Dynevor, Newcastle in 1761, he held the post under successive ministries until April 1770, when lord North appointed him treasurer of the king's chamber. He died in office in 1779. He had married, in 1756, Cecil, only child of William, 1st earl Talbot, lord steward of the Royal Household, who, in 1780, was created earl Talbot and baron Dynevor, with special remainder to his daughter. Their son, GEORGE TALBOT RICE
RICHARDS family Coed, Caerynwch, ) JOHN HUMPHREYS. Grace's great-grandchild, CATHERINE, only child of ROBERT VAUGHAN HUMPHREYS (sheriff of Merioneth, 1760), became the wife of Sir RICHARD RICHARDS (1752 - 1823), judge, baron of the exchequer and thereafter often called ' baron Richards '; born 5 November 1752, he was the son of Thomas Richards of Coed, near Dolgelley, by his wife Catherine, sister of William Parry, warden of Ruthin
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician February 1974, he was at once created by Harold Wilson Baron Goronwy-Roberts of Caernarfon and Ogwen in the county of Caernarfon (life peerage), and assumed the surname of Goronwy-Roberts in lieu of Roberts. He was also re-appointed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by Harold Wilson in March 1974, serving until December 1975 under George Brown. He was then Minister of State at the Foreign Office
ROBERTS, JOHN HERBERT (BARON CLWYD of ABERGELE), (1863 - 1955), politician on voluntary hospitals in Wales. He was created a baronet in 1908 and elevated Baron Clwyd of Abergele in 1919. He journeyed regularly from Abergele to the House of Lords until he was over ninety years old. He did great service in public life of which the public was largely unaware. He married in Clapham chapel (Congl.), on 1 August 1893, Hanna Rushton, daughter of William Sproston Caine, M.P. who
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics buy the Herbert lands, sharing them between them. Thus was formed the estate of Castellior (Llechylched), on which Gabriel Roberts's descendants were to live for generations. His descendants are shown in J. E. Griffith's table (loc. cit.). The elder line of them ran out with an heiress, who married James Bulkeley (1717 - 1752) of Baron Hill. ROBE-LEW-1596 LEWIS ROBERTS (1596 - 1640), merchant and
ROBINSON family Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, estate was found to be so encumbered that it had to be sold to meet the accumulated debts. From a younger grandson of the royalist colonel, who adopted the surname Lytton after a cousin under whose will he inherited the Hertfordshire estate of Knebworth, was descended Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st baron Lytton of Knebworth (1803 - 1873), the novelist.
ROCH, WALTER FRANCIS (1880 - 1965), politician and landowner rather than Lloyd George, a decision which put an end to his political career. Roch was the author of Mr. Lloyd George and the War (1920). In 1934 he was appointed J.P. for Monmouthshire. He married in 1911 the Hon. Fflorens Mary Ursula Herbert, the only daughter of Sir Ivor Herbert, M.P. for South Monmouthshire, 1906-17, and the first and last Baron Treowen. Roch and his wife spent the last 25 yrs of
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, estate passed to his younger brother, Griffith Howel Vaughan. When Griffith died in 1848 it was inherited by his nephew, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau and Ystumcolwyn, from whom it passed to Charles Henry Wynn (1847 - 1911) of Glynllifon, third son of Spencer Bulkeley Wynn, 3rd baron Newborough (see Glyn of Glynllifon family, and Wynn family of Rug). CHARLES SALUSBURY, second surviving son of
SANKEY, Baron - see SANKEY, JOHN
SANKEY, JOHN (BARON SANKEY, VISCOUNT SANKEY of Moreton), (1866 - 1948), lawyer

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