Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters Born 4 July 1807 in a cottage called Beudy Clegyrog, Llan-badrig, Anglesey. He only had four days' schooling, two when he was 5 years of age and two more fifteen years later. His mother died when he was 4 years of age, and in the spring of 1818 his father died also. As the children were in dire poverty the Llandrygarn vestry (for by now they were in that parish) found employment for the three
PUGH, ELLIS (1656 - 1718), Quaker other Welsh people started on the long voyage to Pennsylvania. They reached Barbadoes in March 1687 and arrived in Pennsylvania in the summer of the same year. Pugh settled with his family near Gwynedd township in Philadelphia county (now Montgomery county), as a farmer; he also continued to minister to the many Welsh people who were there. In 1706 he returned to Wales, but he was back in Pennsylvania
PUGH, HUGH (1803 - 1868), schoolmaster and Independent minister to the Dysgedydd and it was during this period that he published Drych y Cymunwr for the benefit of young communicants, and Hawl a chymwysder dyn i farnu drosto'i hun. In 1837 he moved to Mostyn, Flintshire, where he continued to work with the same assiduity and where he had men of similar opinions as neighbours, e.g., his predecessor, Gwilym Hiraethog, now at Denbigh, and Scorpion, at Trelawnyd
PUGH, PHILIP (1679 - 1760), Independent minister spreading in his churches, but vigorously opposed the Antinomianism of the period. He published Darluniad y Gwir Gristion, including also Myfyrdodau Difrifol, 1748, being translations of John Shower's books together with some hymns written by himself. The old Cilgwyn church register, chiefly kept by him, has now been lost, and so has the diary attributed to him - but there are reasons to doubt whether the
PUGHE, ELIZABETH ('Eliza') (1826 - 1847), deaf illustrator (sic). The author of the note was Eliza's niece, the artist Buddug Anwylini Pughe (1856-1939), and she describes Eliza as being 'deaf and dumb from birth, and was a very pretty girl'. Eliza's pictorial dictionary (now in the National Library of Wales) contains hundreds of minute hand-drawn illustrations accompanied by English and Welsh nouns or verbs to describe each image. It is highly likely that
REES, ALAN WILLIAM (1941 - 2005), Benedictine monk and musician first year at university. Another important aspect of his life manifested itself during his childhood, showing an aptitude for music and learning to play the organ. He was educated at Dynevor Grammar School, Swansea, and at University College Cardiff (now Cardiff University) where he graduated in music and went on to gain a postgraduate diploma in education. He became an ARCM in 1961 and ARCO in 1964
REES, BRINLEY RODERICK (1919 - 2004), classical scholar, educationist and university college principal , became increasingly recognized, and, in 1975, he returned again to Wales on appointment as principal of St David's College, Lampeter, the first layman to hold the post. As Dean of Arts in Cardiff he had been involved in the process which saw Lampeter admitted as a 'school' within the University of Wales (a federation of which he was often critical). Now principal, he fought hard to have Lampeter fully
REES, DAVID (1918 - 2013), mathematician and commutative algebra. In 1954 he produced a highly influential paper with Douglas Northcott on the concepts of reductions and integral closure. Several concepts and theories now carry his name, such as the 'Rees matrix semigroup', the 'Rees Valuation Theorem' and others. From 1958 until his retirement in 1983 he was Professor of Pure Mathemetics and Head of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
REES, JOSIAH (1744 - 1804), Unitarian minister on the list of the committee of the South Wales Unitarian Association, dated 8 October 1802, and he was the preacher at that Association's first public assembly, at Cefn-coed-cymer, 26 June 1803. It was under the Association's auspices that he published in 1804 the tract (of which no copy is now known to have survived) which provoked in the same year the reply by Joseph Harris (Gomer), Bwyall Crist
REES, LEIGHTON THOMAS (1940 - 2003), world champion darts player that the World Championship Darts Competition had been arranged. He was presented with a cheque for £3000 and he was honoured in his home village when a street in Ynys-y-bŵl was called Leighton Rees Close. By now he was an attraction, and he travelled extensively all over the world. He would spend three months every year competing in the United States, concentrating on the states of Florida, Arizona
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator Goronwy Rees was born at Rhos (now Pen-y-Geulan), North Road, Aberystwyth, on 29 November 1909, the fourth and last of the surviving children of Richard Jenkin Rees (1868-1963), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and his wife Apphia Mary (née James, 1870-1931). In 1903 the Reverend R. J. Rees, a local man by birth, became minister of Tabernacle, the landmark Calvinist Methodist chapel at Aberystwyth
REES, ROBERT (Eos Morlais; 1841 - 1892), vocalist and musician worked at Landore and became precentor at Soar Congregational chapel, Swansea. He took a course of instruction at the Swansea Training College. So successful had he become by now that he gave up his occupation and devoted his whole time to music. He served for three years as precentor of Walter Road Congregational church, Swansea. He conducted singing festivals and served as adjudicator, his services

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