Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICE, JOHN ARTHUR (1861 - 1942), barrister and journalist ; she predeceased him. He died 3 June 1942.
PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904 - 1980), novelist and poet English at Cardiff University College; he graduated in 1933. During the same summer he married Mattie Adele Gwynne Evans (1908-1994), a Cardiff schoolteacher who hailed from Gilfach-goch. In 1934 they moved to London where Caradog pursued his career as a journalist. He worked as a sub-editor on the News Chronicle for eight years before receiving his call-up in 1942; his military training is vividly and
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales War and in 1939 he was employed as a Social Officer dealing with evacuees from English cities who were being sent to west Wales. By this time he had been elected as a councillor on the Neath Urban District Council as well as acting as unpaid agent to the Labour Member of Parliament for Neath, Sir William Jenkins. In 1942 he applied for the post of a Labour Party agent for the Eastern District of
REES, FLORENCE GWENDOLEN (1906 - 1994), helminthologist (one who studies worms, particularly parasitic ones), Professor of Zoology strategies of certain parasitic worms, which threw new light on the relationships of parasites to non-vertebrate hosts. A selection of her numerous published research papers, mainly in the Journal of Parasitology, earned her a DSc degree of the University of Wales in 1942 and promotion as Senior Lecturer (1946) and Reader (1966). In 1971 she was appointed Professor of Zoology following her election as a
REES, Sir JAMES FREDERICK (1883 - 1967), Principal of the University College at Cardiff became a member of many industrial and constitutional committees. He was chairman of the Consultative Committee on the Welsh Problems of Reconstruction, 1942-46, and was a member of the commission on Reforming the Constitution of Sri Lanka, 1944-45 and of the Local Government Boundary Commission, 1946-49. He received honorary LL.D. degrees of the Universities of Wales, Birmingham and Edinburgh, and was
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator removed from the London-Oxford axis, his true social and intellectual province? Yet Rees had moved in academic circles, had views on university teaching and research, and genuinely identified with Wales. The salary also enticed - the Reeses' lavish lifestyle always left them stretched - and the house that went with the job seemed big enough for the four young children born to the couple between 1942 and
REES, THOMAS IFOR (1890 - 1977), HM Ambassador Chapel for many years as well as being an inspirational Sunday School teacher. He was a well-known figure in the village and supported every activity in the community. T. Ifor Rees was a handsome man, tall of stature and strong in personality and principle. He was made CMG in 1942 and he was awarded an honorary LlD (University of Wales) in 1950. He died 11 February 1977 and was buried in the family
REES, THOMAS JAMES (1875 - 1957), director of education School Broadcasting, the council of the University of Wales, the Welsh National Council of Music, and the Welsh National School of Medicine. He was a J.P. and served as treasurer of the University College at Swansea. He was one of the founder members of Swansea Rotary Club, having been president of Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland, 1942-44. In 1943 he was appointed C.B.E. Among his published work is
REES, THOMAS WYNFORD (Dagger; 1898 - 1959), major-general where, in 1940, he was twice wounded and awarded a bar to his D.S.O. and promoted colonel. He commanded the 10th Indian Division in Iraq and North Africa, 1942, and the 19th. Indian (Dagger) Division in Burma, 1944-45, being made C.B. in 1945 and promoted major-general in 1947. He was head of the Military Emergency Staff to the Emergency Committee of Cabinet, Delhi, September-December 1947. Retiring
RICHARDS, DAVID WILLIAM (1893 - 1949), preacher and philosopher Bergson and Pragatism'. He gained his PhD (London) in 1942. He taught mathematics for three years in Pwllheli Intermediate School but in 1917 he accepted an invitation to the Congregational ministry. He served the Welsh churches Saron (Bedwas) and Peniel (Trethomas), 1917-20, the English churches in Griffithstown, Pontypool, 1920-24, returning to the Welsh ministry at Seion, Abercanaid (1924-27) before
RICHARDS, GRAFTON MELVILLE (1910 - 1973), Welsh scholar meaning and significance in a comprehensive Welsh onomasticon. The research took him to a range of fields of study - the history of governance and administration, of legal custom and structures, settlement patterns and demography, toponyms as well as the more strictly linguistic area. He published The Laws of Hywel Dda (1954), a translation of Llyfr Blegywryd (Williams and Powell, 1942), a medieval
RICHARDS, WILLIAM LESLIE (1916 - 1989), Scholar, teacher, poet and author complexion, with a round countenance, like many of his family. In 1942 he married Elizabeth Mair Pamela Jones (1920-2002), Ffosyresgob, Capel Isaac, and they had four children. He died in Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen, on 27 December 1989, after a short illness. On 30 December, after a public funeral service at Y Capel Newydd, Llandeilo, his remains were buried with his forefathers in Siloam Cemetery

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