Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, MERLYN (1920 - 2006), politician with south Wales, receiving an Honorary LLD from the University of Wales (1987) and an Honorary Fellowship from the Polytechnic of Wales (1989). When the latter institution became the University of Glamorgan five years later, he was appointed as its first Chancellor (1994-2002). Despite illness in his later years, he remained active in the House of Lords. Lord Merlyn-Rees died on 5 January 2006 at St
REES, ROBERT (Eos Morlais; 1841 - 1892), vocalist and musician Born 5 April (Whit-Sunday) 1841, at Dowlais, Glamorganshire, the son of Hugh and Margaret Rees, and brought up near the banks of the river Morlais - hence his pseudonym. He lost his father when he was 8 years old, and he started to work in a coal-mine when he was only 9. As a child he showed a marked talent for singing and recitation. His first lessons in music were given him by an uncle; these
REES, THOMAS WYNFORD (Dagger; 1898 - 1959), major-general East battles, he was acclaimed Captor of Mandalay in the Burma war. He was usually known as General ' Dagger ' Rees and, to his troops, ' Pocket Napoleon ' because of his diminutive height of 5 feet 5 inches, and ' Pete ' because he was always with his men in the front line. He took his nickname, ' Dagger ' from the symbol of his beloved Indian Division. He served in World War 1 (mentioned in
REYNOLDS, JONATHAN OWAIN (Nathan Dyfed; 1814 - 1891), author Son of Dafydd and Mary Reynolds, born 28 April 1814 in the parish of Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire. He could read Welsh when 5 years old, having been taught by his mother. Nine weeks at a day school was all the education he had. At first a farm labourer, he afterwards became a wheelwright, with his father, and practised that trade at Merthyr Tydfil until his death. He left home to work near Llanelly
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron , and Arthurian interest, thus comprising all but one of the texts now called 'The Mabinogion'. In addition, it also contains Welsh translations of popular religious texts, saints' lives, tales of Charlemagne, and some early Welsh poetry and traditional triads. This precious manuscript, divided into two parts, is kept in the National Library of Wales as Peniarth MS 4 and Peniarth MS 5. According to
RHYDDERCH HAEL (or HEN), king of Alclyde (Dumbarton, near Glasgow) Arfderydd, which was fought, according to Harl. MS. 3859 (Cymm., ix, 155) in 573. In the triads he is named as one of the 'three liberal ones of the Island of Britain' (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 389), his court is said to have been devastated by Aidan, king of the Scots, 574-606 (ibid., 391), and 'Drudlwyd' is given as the name of his steed (Black Book of Carmarthen, 28. 5). According to the
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (Yr Arglwydd Rhys, The lord Rhys), (1132 - 1197), lord of Deheubarth agreement whereby Rhys finally dropped the title of king, for henceforth he is always referred to in the chronicles as ' the lord Rhys ' - see Owain Gwynedd and Madog ap Maredudd. For the next seven years intermittent revolts and truces reveal his restlessness and suppressed ambitions which once again found an outlet in the great rising of 1164-5 when, Henry being preoccupied at home, Rhys seized
RHYS ap MAREDUDD (d. 1292), lord of Dryslwyn in Ystrad Tywi converging movement of royal troops upon Dryslwyn, which was taken c. 5 September, but Rhys was still at large, and active enough until Newcastle Emlyn, too, was taken, 20 January 1288. He was in flight in 1289; a writ states that he was likely to attempt an escape to Ireland, and there were suspicions that Gilbert IV of Gloucester was conniving. However, he was caught, and in 1292 was executed at York.
RHYS, Sir JOHN (1840 - 1915), Celtic scholar the Language of Old Welsh Poetry' (Revue Celtique), 1883; Celtic Heathendom (Hibbert Lectures), 1886; Studies in the Arthurian Legend, 1891; Studies in Early Irish History (Brit. Acad.), 1893; Outlines of the Phonology of the Manx Gaelic, 1894; 'Notes on the Hunting of Twrch Trwyth' (Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion), 1894-5; Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx, 1901; Celtae and
RICE family Newton, Dynevor, monarchs. Sir Rhys's son, GRIFFITH RICE (c. 1530 - 1584), having obtained from Mary in 1554-5 a grant of some of his father's forfeited possessions in Pembrokeshire, lost them again in 1557 when he was convicted of the murder of Mathew Walshe in county Durham. On the accession of Elizabeth he was pardoned and, in 1560, the forfeited lands were again restored to him, together with other lands in
RICHARD, EBENEZER (1781 - 1837), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 5 December 1781 at Tre-fin, Pembrokeshire, son of HENRY RICHARD (1730 - 1813) and Hannah, his second wife. The father had been a circulating schoolmaster and a Methodist preacher for sixty years. The son had also been a schoolmaster at Brynhenllan where, in 1801, he experienced a powerful conviction of sin; he began to preach in 1802, about the same time as his brother, Thomas Richard. In
RICHARD, THOMAS (1783 - 1856), Calvinistic Methodist minister Gwyn of Maenorowen, niece of David Jones of Llan-gan's second wife. After his marriage he farmed in several places, but c. 1824-5 settled at Fishguard where he spent the rest of his life. He died 3 January 1856 and was buried at Maenorowen. He was one of the outstanding preachers of his generation. There was a charm in his voice that made the country folk rave over him; he could also thunder forth in

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