Dictionary of Welsh Biography

NATHAN DYFED - see REYNOLDS, JONATHAN OWAIN
OWAIN ap CADWGAN (d. 1116), prince of Powys He has earned notoriety because of his abduction of Nest in 1109, and the murder in 1110 of a leading member of the Flemish colony in Dyfed, incidents which gained him the lasting enmity of those injured thereby; indeed he died at the hands of a party of Flemings led by Nest's husband, Gerald of Windsor, when, in 1116, he was campaigning on behalf of the king against a fellow- prince in South
PHILIPPS, LAURENCE RICHARD (1st. BARON MILFORD, 1st baronet), (1874 - 1962), philanthropist, industrialist, sportsman, and a member of one of the most prominent old gentry families of Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire 1958-74 and afterwards the first Lord Lieutenant of the new county of Dyfed.
PRICE, THOMAS WALTER (Cuhelyn; 1829 - 1869), journalist and poet Gwron stated that Y Drych favoured the slave trade). On 10 January 1857 Cuhelyn started Y Bardd Newydd Wythnosol (New York) to which many Welsh writers were correspondents - Eben Fardd, Thomas Stephens (Merthyr Tydfil), Talhaiarn, Cynddelw, Llawdden, Dewi Wyn o Esyllt, Islwyn, Aneurin Fardd, Nathan Dyfed, Nefydd, Eiddil Ifor, Gwilym Teilo, etc. An account of the life of Dafydd ap Gwilym and some of
PRYDYDD BYCHAN, Y (fl. 1220-1270) South Wales, a poet Over twenty series of englynion of his work are to be found in the Hendregadredd manuscript and The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales. Most of these poems are in praise of descendants of the 'lord' Rhys, and minor rulers and court officials in Dyfed, Ystrad Tywi, and Ceredigion. References are made to fighting, particularly in Roose and around Pembroke. There is also a series of englynion to Owain
REES, BOWEN (1857 - 1929), missionary his successors) protected their lives when Britain attacked their country in 1893, and spared them from the massacre at the beginning of the 1896 Rebellion, and continued to support them afterwards, their mission flourished over a district the size of Dyfed. Bowen Rees tried to protect the Ndebele from the rapacity of the British South Africa Co. : he provided information for the Quaker John Ellis
REES, EVAN (Dyfed; 1850 - 1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales Barddoniaeth' ('Poets and Poetry'), 'Islwyn', 'Ann Griffiths', 'Pantycelyn', 'Dros Gyfanfor a Chyfanfyd' ('Over the Ocean and the Whole World'), 'Gwlad y Pyramidiau' ('The Land of the Pyramids'), 'Gwlad Canaan' ('The Land of Canaan'), 'Gwlad y Dyn Du' ('The Black Man's Land'). He was editor of Y Drysorfa, 1918-23. He published Caniadau Dyfedfab, Gwaith Barddonol Dyfed, Gwlad yr Addewid a Iesu o Nazareth
REES, JONATHAN (Nathan Wyn; 1841 - 1905), poet, essayist, and eisteddfodwr Born 21 August 1841 at Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, son of James and Eunice Rees, and a brother of Evan Rees (Dyfed). He removed to Aberdare with his parents when 9 years of age, and then to Ystrad Rhondda in 1877. He served as a colliery official at Bodringallt for the rest of his life. He was prominent as an educationalist, and served on the Rhondda School Board for many years. Attaining eminence
REES, REES ARTHUR (Rhys Dyfed; 1837 - 1866), poet
REYNOLDS, JONATHAN OWAIN (Nathan Dyfed; 1814 - 1891), author
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (Yr Arglwydd Rhys, The lord Rhys), (1132 - 1197), lord of Deheubarth Ceredigion and Emlyn (including the fortresses of Cardigan and Kilgerran) and very soon re-established himself in the position from which he had been ousted in 1158. For the remainder of his life he was able to maintain unquestioned control of these territories, and, indeed, to add to them portions of Dyfed : that he was able to do so was due to a combination of favourable circumstances. There was little
RHYS ap TEWDWR (d. 1093) opposed by a group of his own vassals in Dyfed, who sought to restore the kingship to the senior line of Hywel Dda in the person of Gruffydd ap Maredudd ab Owain. At Llandudoch (S. Dogmaels) on the Teifi the rebels were defeated and Gruffydd killed. Meanwhile the Norman conquest of the south had gathered a new momentum after William's death in 1087, and among the territories then being over-run was the

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