Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, JOHN SEYMOUR (1887 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and author contributed to the periodical press for over 50 years; see Glyn L. Jones, A bibliography of Cardiganshire 1600-1964 and the Supplement for a list of his articles in the Dysgedydd, Cymru, Genhinen, Ymofynnydd, etc. Other published work includes a one-act play, Y Canfasiwr, in Y Ford Gron, 5, no. 1, under the pseudonym J.C.M. Evans; and The history of Ynysgau Church, Merthyr Tydfil (c. 1958). He was a
REES, JOHN THOMAS (1857 - 1949), musician Born 14 November 1857 at Llwynbedw, near Cwmgïedd, Brecknockshire, son of Thomas and Hannah (née Morgan) Rees. He had little schooling and began work as a pit-boy at the age of nine. Whilst working as a miner in Ystradgynlais, Rhondda Valley, and Aberdare, he acquired a sound musical discipline. He began to give music lessons when he was 17 (Daniel Protheroe was one of his pupils) and he mastered
REES, JOSIAH (1744 - 1804), Unitarian minister Publishing The eldest son, who in 1794 became a partner in the famous publishing firm of Longman. He returned to Wales in 1837, and died at Gelli-gron on 5 September; he, too, was a Unitarian in 1803 (D.N.B., in the article on his brother Thomas, below). THOMAS REES (1777 - 1864), Unitarian minister, and historical writer History and Culture Religion Born at Gelli-gron, 14 September 1777. He was
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, LEWIS (1710 - 1800), Independent minister -ton, near Bridgend, and at the Maesgwyn Academy. He was received into church membership at Blaen-gwrach and began to preach there. He was persuaded by Edmund Jones and by his old schoolmaster, Vavasor Griffiths, to take charge of the small church at Tŷ Mawr, Llanbryn-mair. He worked assiduously there without, however, being ordained, from 1734 until 1738; he was ordained at Blaen-gwrach on 13 April
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, REES ARTHUR (Rhys Dyfed; 1837 - 1866), poet Born 1837 at Melin Brithdir, Penbryn, Cardiganshire, son of Rhys Rees. He did well at school, especially in mathematics. He became apprenticed to J. M. Jones, a dealer at Rhydlewis, and after some years moved to Liverpool and then to London. He took advantage of every opportunity to educate himself, and became so well versed in English that he wrote poetry and prose in that language. In 1860 his
REES, RICE (1804 - 1839), cleric and scholar time at home and it was during this period that this interest in Welsh was roused by John Howell, Ioan Glan Dyfroedd, who was headmaster of the British school in the town. He then went to his uncle, W. J. Rees, at Cascob to be prepared for Oxford; he was admitted to Jesus College in 1822, graduated in 1826 (B.D. 1837), and in 1828 was elected a Fellow of his college. Llewellyn Lewellin was his tutor
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, 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.

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