Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REUBEN, BERNICE RUTH (1923 - 2004), novelist the land was mine. But now I am made to feel a foreigner…'. She was made a fellow of University College, Cardiff in 1982, and was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Wales in 1991. Two of her novels were awarded prizes by the Welsh Arts Council, but nevertheless she has been rather neglected by Wales's literary establishment, perhaps partly because of her own ambiguous attitude towards
REYNOLDS, JOHN (fl. 1739), antiquary the latter. In 1736 he published Heraldry Displayed, a second edition of A Display of Herauldry by Davies, published in 1716. In 1739 he published The Scripture Genealogy. Beginning at Noah and To which is added the Genealogy of the Caesars and Also, a Display of Herauldry of the particular Coat of Armours now in use in the Six Counties of North Wales etc. This book, which has no great merit, is
REYNOLDS, JONATHAN OWAIN (Nathan Dyfed; 1814 - 1891), author . 1, now NLW MS 970E), a 17th century collection of Welsh poems in the hand of Llywelyn Siôn, Llangewydd; they are described in J. Gwenogvryn Evans's Reports on MSS. in the Welsh Language, II, i, 372-94. Besides the above volume, twenty-seven other volumes belonging to Llywarch Reynolds and his father came to N.L.W. in 1916; see N.L.W. Handlist of MSS. i, 77-9 (these should be studied side by side
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron Llywelyn Goch ap Llywelyn Gaplan. Lywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen also composed a praise poem to the two friends. In his description of a poetic circuit of Wales, Iolo Goch recommends 'greeting Rhydderch the giver / son of Ieuan Llwyd', and one suspects Iolo must have written additional poems, now lost, to such an important patron. Dafydd y Coed's praise poem to Rhydderch in The Red Book of Hergest compares
RHYS NANMOR (fl. 1480-1513), poet
RICHARDS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1818), General Baptist minister, theological and political controversialist, and antiquary . Before and after the West Wales Baptist schism of 1799, Richards rushed into the fray, against Calvinism and against the 'Methodistical' and revivalistic tendencies of the Particular Baptist leaders. He poured forth a series of 'Occasional Leaflets' (Papurynnau Achlysurol); these are now very scarce. His chief opponents were Evan Jones (1777 - 1819) of Cardigan and Joseph Harris (Gomer); the pamphlets
RICHARDS, WILLIAM LESLIE (1916 - 1989), Scholar, teacher, poet and author Eisteddfod. Locally he was active in all literary circles. He was one of the founder members of Llandeilo Literary Circle, the first guest at Llandeilo's Diners' Club, a compere at nosweithiau llawen, and a guest speaker. He was also interested in drama, as actor and producer. He was one of the founders of Llandeilo Welsh School (now Ysgol Teilo Sant), and a supporter and speaker in Plaid Cymru's early
RINVOLUCRI, GIUSEPPE (1890 - 1962), engineer and architect rectangular, tall and narrow, built of bare rubble stonework inside and out. The roof was originally concrete with a rounded interior ceiling but is now covered with a steep slate roof. A year later his church St Therese of Lisieux in Abergele was opened. It is a neo-Byzantine cruciform building with semi-circular and domed apses, constructed of reinforced concrete faced with stone on the outside. His next
ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c. 1527 - 1598), priest, grammarian and poet Camposanto close by the cathedral; this graveyard now lies beneath the Via Cardinale Carlo Maria Martini. It is likely that Gruffydd Robert printed a small collection of poetry c. 1560-3. In 1567, the first part of his Grammar, entitled Dosparth Byrr ar y rhan gyntaf i ramadeg cymraeg, was printed in Milan at the press of Vincenzo Girardoni. The Grammar was composed in the form of a dialogue between
ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c.1522 - c.1610), priest, grammarian, and poet a divinity canon in the cathedral. There are references to him in the cardinal's biography and details are given in letters written by his friend, Owen Lewis, now in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, of the duties which he performed. About November 1582 Borromeo wanted him to relinquish his position as divinity canon because he could not speak Italian sufficiently fluently. We do not know what
ROBERTS family Mynydd-y-gof, interests at Manchester. Over and above this, he took a prominent part in the public life of the city, and was lord mayor in 1896-7. He was a zealous promoter of higher education in Wales, and from the foundation of University College, Aberystwyth, till his own death - a period of thirty years - he was one of its vice-presidents. [It may now be added that the recent publication of the Thomas Charles
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor another solicitor, Harvey Clifton. This enabled him to accept, from time to time, instructions from 'country' practices (including Lloyd George and George) to act on their behalf as 'London agents' in cases before the higher courts. But he had, in practice, to employ Clifton to deal with such cases on his behalf, with the result that Clifton received the bulk of the fees paid. By 1897, now a father of

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