Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PROBERT, ARTHUR REGINALD (1909 - 1975), Labour politician . Following the death of the sitting Labour MP D. Emlyn Thomas, Probert was elected MP for the Aberdare constituency in a by-election in October 1954 and held the seat until his retirement in February 1974. In the 1954 by-election he was opposed by Michael Roberts for the Conservatives and Gwynfor Evans, president of Plaid Cymru since 1945. He was secretary to the Welsh PLP, 1956-59, an opposition whip
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales , Ness Edwards, James Griffith and other coalfield had leaders studied. In 1936 he was chosen by the South Wales Federation of Miners to visit the Soviet Union coalfield as a member of an important four-man delegation. The three others were Will Arthur, Jim Grant and Tom Andrews from Treharris. They were away for 6 weeks and Tom Andrews, on more than one occasion, spoke briefly in Welsh to the Russian
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet . E. Griffith and other writers are in error when they say that Margaret (Williams) was the heiress of Gerddi Bluog and the wife of Morgan Prys; there are in the N.L.W. two sheets of paper (in the Gerddi Bluog and Crafnant collection; see Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes a Chofnodion Sir Feirionnydd, i, 39-40), dated 20 August 1602, dealing with the marriage of Morgan Prys and Elizabeth. Other papers in
PRYS, THOMAS (1564? - 1634) Plas Iolyn,, poet and adventurer The eldest son of Elis Prys, of Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire. His date of birth is not known, but he was buried at Ysbyty Ifan, 23 August 1634, and according to his poems he had reached old age when he died. He was born at the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, and he was engaged in the wars and expeditions of her age. He was twice married (1) to Margaret, daughter of William Griffith of Caernarvon
PUGH, FRANCIS (1720 - 1811), early Welsh Methodist and Moravian Born 10 September 1720 'in Brecknockshire ' according to Moravian records; it would be interesting to know precisely where, for it is clear that Pugh was a neighbour and friend of Howel Harris at a very early date - so confidential a friend that Harris used him as a go-between when he was courting Anne Williams. He appears to have been in 1741 teacher of a Griffith Jones school at Trevecka itself
PUGHE, ELIZABETH ('Eliza') (1826 - 1847), deaf illustrator Eliza Pughe was born in 1826 at Chwaen Wen, Tref Alaw, Anglesey, the youngest of three children of David Roberts Pughe and his wife Elizabeth. Chwaen Wen was the home of her maternal grandparents. The family moved to Coch-y-Bug, Pontllyfni near Clynnog around 1828. Eliza's eldest brother was John Pughe (1814-1874), a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and known in Welsh literary circles as
PUGHE, JOHN (Ioan ab Hu Feddyg; 1814 - 1874), physician and littérateur Born 8 September 1814 at Ysgubor Fawr, Chwaen-wen, Anglesey, the eldest son of David Roberts Pughe and Elizabeth his wife. He qualified as a doctor after training at S. Thomas's Hospital, London, where he received the degree of F.R.C.S. He first practised at Barmouth but later moved to Aberdovey where he spent most of his life. In his early days he lived at Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire, and was
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, (died 1469), whose father, JOHN PULESTON (will proved 17 April 1444), had married Angharad, daughter of Griffith Hanmer and grand-daughter of Tudur ap Gronwy of Anglesey, was a staunch Lancastrian and held Denbigh castle as deputy-constable to his kinsman, Jasper, earl of Pembroke during the campaign of 1460-1. Under the Tudor's, four members of the family played a leading part in the county
PUW family, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, family. PHYLIP PUW (died 1637), Roman Catholic recusant Religion Second son of Robert Puw (above) of Penrhyn Creuddyn, Caernarfonshire. He married Gaynor Gwyn, daughter of Sir Richard Gwyn of Caernarvon, and Elen Griffith of Penrhyn, Is-y-garth, grand-daughter of Sir William Griffith, the chamberlain (see Griffith of Penrhyn, in Appendix). We first come across him when he was in Rhiwledyn cave with his
RATHBONE, WILLIAM (1819 - 1902), philanthropist -niece (see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 134), MARY FRANCES RATHBONE (died 1937), did much for the University College at Bangor, and for the adult education movement; she received an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Wales in 1934.
REES, GEORGE (1873 - 1950), poet and hymnwriter (CM), Williamstown, where his father was an elder. In 1900 he married Kate Ann, daughter of Thomas Roberts, chief accountant at the Oakeley Slate Quarries, Blaenau Ffestiniog and for a time lived at Pont Rhondda, where he was elected an elder of his church. He moved to London to work in the milk trade. Here a milkman with the surname Maycock covered the same round and to avoid confusion George
REES, HENRY (1798 - 1869), most famous minister among the Calvinistic Methodists in his day regularly with but few exceptions at Association meetings to the end of his life. He made an intense study of the work of Puritan divines, especially Dr. John Owen. He was ordained at Bala in June 1827. He married Mary Roberts, of Shrewsbury, 20 October 1830, and had four children of whom three died in infancy; the fourth, Ann, grew up and married Richard Davies (1818 - 1896). He moved to Liverpool at

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