Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RHYS, Arglwydd - see RHYS ap GRUFFYDD
RHYS, CHARLES ARTHUR URYAN - see RHYS, WALTER FITZURYAN
RHYS, EDWARD PROSSER (1901 - 1945), journalist, poet and publisher he contributed verses to Cymru'r Plant when he was quite young. In 1924, at the national eisteddfod held at Pontypool, he won the crown for his poem 'Atgof', a poem which was unusual in its form and its content and which caused a stir at the time. He took the surname Rhys when he married Mary Prudence Hughes, of Aberystwyth in 1928; they had one daughter. In 1928 he began to publish books and
RHŶS, ELIZABETH (1841 - 1911), teacher, hostess and campaigner for women's rights , Elspeth went on to Borough Road Teacher Training College for Women in London, before her appointment as head of the British Girls' School in Amlwch. There, in 1861, she met John Rhŷs, then the young headmaster of Rhos-y-bol school. Later, Elspeth left Anglesey to serve as head of the British School at Broughton, Flintshire; then, encouraged by Rhŷs, she took up a position as an English teacher in
RHYS, ERNEST (PERCIVAL) (1859 - 1946), poet, author, and editor Born 17 July 1859 in Islington, London, son of John Rhys, a native of Carmarthen, who was a publisher's assistant in London, and Emma, daughter of Robert Percival, Hockerell, Hertfordshire. Soon after the birth of their son the parents went to live in Nott Square, Carmarthen, from where Ernest Rhys went to his first school; they afterwards proceeded to Newcastle-on-Tyne. It was from Newcastle-on
RHYS, HYWEL (1715? - 1799), poet
RHYS, IFAN THOMAS (fl. mid 18th century), poet
RHYS, Sir JOHN (1840 - 1915), Celtic scholar Rhys Memorial Lecture' to be delivered annually in his memory and, in the first of these, his disciple, Sir John Morris-Jones, gave a full bibliography of his published works. In this note it is only possible to mention the most important items in that rich and many-sided list. His principal interest was in Celtic philology and, more particularly, in Welsh philology. As a result of the many
RHYS, JOHN DAVID (1534 - 1609?), physician and grammarian . After returning to Wales and devoting some years to the collection of material Rhys published, in 1592, his famous Welsh grammar, Cambrobrytannicae Cymraecaeve Linguae Institutiones et Rudimenta. The book was dedicated to Sir Edward Stradling of St Donats, Glamorganshire, who had defrayed the cost of printing. It consists of a grammar of the Welsh language together with a lengthy and laborious
RHYS, Lord - see RHYS ap GRUFFYDD
RHYS, MARY (1744? - 1842), rhymester - see RHYS, DAVID
RHYS, MARY CATHERINE - see LLEWELYN, MARY PENDRILL

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