Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PUDDICOMBE, ANNE ADALISA (Allen Raine; 1836 - 1908), novelist Born 6 October 1836 in Bridge Street, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, the eldest child of Benjamin and Letitia Grace Evans. Her father was a lawyer, and a grandson of David Davis of Castellhywel (1745 - 1827), whilst her mother was the daughter of Thomas Morgan, a surgeon of Newcastle Emlyn, and grand-daughter of Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho (1713 - 1790). During childhood she attended a school
PUGH, PHILIP (1679 - 1760), Independent minister Llwynpiod chapel at his own cost, and paid Morgan Williams of Rhydlydan out of his own pocket for working as schoolmaster at Llangwyryfon and other places. He supported Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho and the revivalists, and was sent for by Howel Harris and Rowland to prepare the latter's defence against bishop Claggett's accusation that his preaching was irregular. He was grieved to see Arminianism
REES, BOWEN (1857 - 1929), missionary Born 16 March 1857, at Ivy Bush Inn, Llandybïe, Carmarthenshire, youngest of the six children of Jacob Rees, stone mason, and his wife Margaret, daughter of the publican Richard Bowen. The family moved to Ystalyfera, Glamorganshire, and he began working in a smithy when he was nine years old. He set his heart on being a missionary after hearing an address by Thomas Morgan Thomas, ' Thomas of
REES, DAVID (1683? - 1748), Baptist minister and theological writer He is said to have been born in 1683, the son of Rees David, a well-to-do farmer of the Caerphilly district and an active member of the Baptist church at Hengoed. Educated under Samuel Jones (1628 - 1697) at Brynllywarch, he appears to have been baptized and to have been induced to preach in the early 1700's during the early years of Morgan Griffiths's ministry. He was ordained minister of Lime
REES, EBENEZER (1848 - 1908), printer and publisher opened a printing works in Ystalyfera. He established a new weekly newspaper, Y Gwladwr Cymreig in 1885. The first edition appeared on 22 January but it terminated on 24 September of the same year. D. Onllwyn Brace, Ystalyfera, J. Dyfrig Owen, Glantwrch and J.T. Morgan (Thalamus) were each, in turn, his editors. Ebenezer Rees had a great interest in social issues and he was prominent in the labour
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 the subject to the Monthly Repository, and there are manuscript volumes by him in Dr. Williams's Library. He also published The Beauties of Wales, 1815. (Alexander Gordon in D.N.B.; Walter J. Evans in Oriel Coleg Caerfyrddin, 22.) RICHARD REES Religion Of Alltycham, Pontardawe. A leader at Gelli-onnen (see J. E. Morgan, Hanes Pontardawe, 103). JOSIAH REES, merchant Business and Industry He was at
REES, MERLYN (1920 - 2006), politician heavily involved in Labour party politics. He contested Harrow East, where his school was located, in the 1955 and 1959 general elections, alongside a 1959 by-election, but was unsuccessful, which mirrored Labour's national performance. In 1960, Labour's Welsh-born General Secretary, Morgan Phillips, appointed him to organise and oversee the 'Festival of Labour', which took place in 1962. The festival
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator . Two daughters, Muriel and Enid, born in Cardiff, were followed by two Aberystwyth-born sons, (Richard) Geraint, the Cambridge-educated lawyer, and two-and-a-half years later (Morgan) Goronwy Rees. 'Gony' within the family, 'Rees' to his own wife and children, the future author and journalist owed his first name to his uncle Morgan (R. J.'s younger brother), a medical doctor killed in the Somme
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 JENKIN (1868 - 1963), minister (Presb.) Movement of the Presbyterian Church of Wales in Cardiff, he worked with diligence and success in that office until 1947. In 1894 he married Apphia Mary James of Pen-y-garn; they had two sons and two daughters: Morgan Goronwy Rees, sometime Principal of University College Aberystwyth, was their second son. After retiring he lived with his children at Pwllheli, and near Oxford, and at Waltham Cross, London
REES, THOMAS (1815 - 1885), Independent minister, and historian Nonconformity and Independency in Wales; from an early age he had a passion for history. His History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales (1861 - enlarged edition in 1883) is very well known; the original intention that Rees should co-operate with David Morgan (1779 - 1858) was abandoned, as Rees had no very high opinion of Morgan's work. In 1852, Rees had suggested to John Thomas (1821 - 1892) that they

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