Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, LEIGHTON THOMAS (1940 - 2003), world champion darts player Leighton Rees was born 17 January 1940 in Mountain Ash hospital, Glamorganshire, the only son of Thomas Rees, a lorry driver and his wife Olwen Rees (née Holt). He was educated at Trerobert Primary School in Ynys-y-bŵl where his parents lived and where he spent most of his life. From this primary school he entered Mill Street Secondary Modern school and he began to play darts as a schoolboy. His
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator 1948: Margaret Jane ('Jenny'), Rees's biographer (1942), Lucy (1943), the twins Thomas and Daniel (1948); to be followed by Matthew (1954-2016). The students took to the new principal, to his 'versatility of achievement and cosmopolitan range' - something he quickly demonstrated in Conversations with Kafka (his translation of Gustav Janouch, 1953) and The Answers of Ernst von Salomon (1954), with its
REES, OWEN (1717 - 1768), Independent minister Born in 1717 in the Cefn-arthen district, near Llandovery. When Cefn-arthen congregation was rent by theological differences, the Calvinistic party formed a church (incorporated by Edmund Jones in 1740) at Clun-pentan; Owen Rees was one of its members. He went to school at Pen-twyn under Samuel Jones (fl. 1715-64) - in his last months there he was joined by Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799). It is
REES, RICHARD (1707 - 1749), Arminian Independent minister Born in 1707 on his family freehold, Gwernllwyn Uchaf, Dowlais, Glamorganshire, and educated at Carmarthen under Thomas Perrott. At the end of his course there (1732) he was ordained co- pastor with James Davies (died 1760) of the Independent church at Cwm-y-glo, Merthyr Tydfil; the congregation was a mixture of Calvinists and Arminians, Davies (the senior pastor) being a Calvinist. Concord
REES, RICHARD JENKIN (1868 - 1963), minister (Presb.) published a handbook (in English and Welsh) on 2 Samuel (1899), and a commentary on the letters of St. Paul to the Philippians and Colossians (1909).
REES, ROBERT OLIVER (1819 - 1881), apothecary, publisher, and author wrote on Mary Jones, the young Merioneth Welshwoman whose long walk to Bala in order to procure from Thomas Charles a copy of the Welsh Bible led, indirectly, to the foundation of the British and Foreign Bible Society, proved exceedingly popular; it was translated into the language of the Khassis, Assam. R. O. Rees was also largely instrumental in arranging for the erecting of the statue of Thomas
REES, SARAH JANE (Cranogwen; 1839 - 1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate June 1916. There is a 'Cranogwen Scholarship' tenable at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in commemoration of her. Editorial note 2020: Cranogwen lived for the last twenty years of her life with her partner, Jane Thomas, in Llangrannog.
REES, THOMAS (Twm Carnábwth; 1806? - 1876), pugilist
REES, THOMAS (1825 - 1908), minister (CM)
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 Born 13 December 1815 at Penpontbren, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, son of Thomas Rees and his wife Hannah (Williams), but reared by his mother and her family, on the holding of Banc-y-fer, Llangathen. He had only three months' schooling, and was of little use on the farm - 'slow, clumsy, and lazy,' so it was said; yet he was good at basket-making. He became a member of Capel Isaac church, and in
REES, THOMAS (1869 - 1926), principal of Bala-Bangor Independent College Ebenezer chapel, Trecynon, where he began to preach, 19 October 1890. He had, by this time, started to attend Whitland school, which was then kept by the Rev. Lewis Evans, and when the latter gave it up Rees went to the Old College School at Carmarthen, which was kept by Evan Jones. In June 1891 he was admitted at the top of the list to the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and the following year passed

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