Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RICHARDS, JOHN (fl. 1778-1808), Baptist minister
RICHARDS, JOHN (1711 - 1789), harp-maker - see GWYNNE, SACKVILLE
RICHARDS, JOHN LLOYD (1790 - 1854), vicar - see RICHARDS, THOMAS
RICHARDS, ROBERT (1884 - 1954), historian and politician Born at Tan-y-ffordd, Llangynog, Montgomeryshire, 7 May 1884, the son of John Richards, slate quarryman, and his wife Ellen. He was educated at Llangynog elementary school, Llanfyllin county school and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Between 1903 and 1906 he pursued degree courses in political science, Latin, French and philosophy obtaining a first-class honours in political science
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1754 - 1837), cleric degree. He began to keep school at Berriw, Montgomeryshire, March 1813, and also served as curate of Montgomery. He was in touch with many literary Welshmen of his age, and John Blackwell (Alun) and Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) were pupils of his. He was local secretary of the Bible Society and a promoter of the publication of Welsh magazines. When his father declined the benefice of Llangynyw
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1710 - 1790), cleric and lexicographer lexicon (1632) of Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd into Welsh, adding to them words which he had seen in the work of Edward Lhuyd, in Wotton's edition (1730) of the Laws of Hywel Dda, and in old vocabularies, besides many Glamorgan dialect words heard by him. This work was published in 1753, another edition appearing in 1759. Thereafter, he added to this dictionary and a prospectus was issued in 1790, a few
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1687? - 1760), cleric and author of the death of lady Pryce, wife of Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall (1732). A letter by him on the fire in Harlech Marsh, 1694, appeared in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. He was in 1759 a corresponding member of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Richard's best-known work is his satire in reply to Holdsworth's Muscipula, 1709, with the title of Χοιροχωρογραφία sive
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1878 - 1962), librarian and historian of North Wales, Bangor (1899-1903) where he graduated with honours in history under the well-known historian Sir John Edward Lloyd. He was appointed a school-teacher at Towyn (1903-05), Bootle (1905-11), and Maesteg (1912-26). Thomas Shankland urged him to research the history of Puritanism in Wales in Lambeth Palace Library, the British Museum, the Public Record Office, and the Bodleian Library
RICHARDSON, EVAN (1759 - 1824), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster John Elias and Sir Hugh Owen, Richardson gave up the school when in 1817 his health began to fail, and was succeeded by William Lloyd (1771 - 1841). Evan Richardson was also practically the founder of the Calvinistic Methodist cause at Caernarvon; the first Calvinistic Methodist sermon there had been delivered in 1786 by David Jones of Llangan, and in 1787 (while still living at Llangybi) Richardson
RIGBY, THOMAS (c. 1783 - 1841), publican and barber , Grenada and Jamaica. In 1817, Thomas Rigby arrived in Kidwelly in the company of the Rev John Norcross. On 19 January 1819, Thomas Rigby married Mary Richards (1801-1854), a local young woman who had grown up on a farm near Llanelli. Presumably neither one of them could write, leaving their mark instead of a signature on their marriage certificate. Mary's younger sister, Elizabeth Richards (1806-1886
ROBERT (fl. 1099-1147), earl of Gloucester William's children, the son, ROBERT, predeceased him in 1166. The eldest daughter, ISABEL (also called ' Hawise ') was married to prince (afterwards king) John; and although the marriage was dissolved, John clung to her lands till 1214. They finally passed to Isabel's sister AMICIA; her marriage to Roger de Clare ultimately brought Gloucester and Glamorgan into the hands of the Clare family.
ROBERT ap HARRY (fl. c. 1580), poet Five of his poems are preserved in manuscript, viz. a cywydd to pride, an elegy to Siôn Eutyn, a laudatory cywydd on John Salusbury of Lleweni, a poem to the Sacrament, and an englyn. There is also one other poem attributed to him in Cardiff MS. 6 (123), but in Cardiff MS. 63 (278) it is attributed to Siôn Phylip.

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