Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, WILLIAM HOPKYN (1859 - 1924), missionary, linguist, author Richard, and in 1916 general secretary, of the Christian Literature Society for China, and a member of the editorial board of the Chinese Recorder in 1919. He resigned in 1921 owing to ill health, and was given the chair of Chinese in the University of London. He published China a'r Chineaid, 1906, Griffith John o China, 1901, in Welsh, and Jonathan Lees of Tientsin and How to Study Chinese, 1918, both
REES, WILLIAM THOMAS (Alaw Ddu; 1838 - 1904), musician Born 29 September 1838 in the village of Pwll-y-glaw, near Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Glamorganshire, the son of Thomas and Mary Rees, natives of Laleston, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire. The family moved to Aberdare in 1851 where, after the death of his father, the son began to work, when still young, in a coal-mine. He came under the influence of John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) and other musicians who lived
REICHEL, Sir HENRY RUDOLF (1856 - 1931), principal of University College, Bangor College of North Wales, Bangor, and held that office until his retirement in 1927. He gathered around him a band of young scholars of high distinction, among whom were Henry Jones and W. Rhys Roberts and continued to build well on sure foundations. The developments which he most prized were the schools of agriculture and forestry, the department of music, and the school of theology, which united in a
RHYS GOCH ERYRI (fl. early 15th century), poet buried at Beddgelert. According to tradition he lived at Hafod Garegog, and his own references in his poems to Snowdonia confirm that his home was in that mountainous region. According to J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees …, 199, sub Hafod Garegog) he was Rhys ap Dafydd ap Iorwerth ab Evan Llwyd ap Rhirid, but according to B.M. Add. MS. 14866 (511), Gwyneddon MS. 3 (161), and Peniarth MS 112 (815) the lineage
RHYS WYN ap CADWALADR (fl. c. 1600) Giler,, poet . MSS. 14,874 (178), 14,894 (105). According to J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 189, where his pedigree is given, he died 23 February 1607, at Chester, and was buried there in S. Mary's church.
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 ap JOHN (fl. 1578-1611) Scorlegan, Llangynhafal, gentleman, poet, patron of bards, and copyist He traced his pedigree through Edwin ap Grono to Hywel Dda and Rhodri Mawr. His father, John Wyn ap Robert ap Griffith, was a waiter in the queen's ewry, but he died of the plague before the children, Richard, John Wyn, and Catherine, had reached their majority. Lewis ab Edward and Gruffudd Hiraethog wrote elegies on his death. The children and their mother, Margaret, daughter of Griffith ab
RICHARDS family Coed, Caerynwch, elected Member of Parliament for Merioneth on 27 June 1836 and represented the county until 1852. He was justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant for Merioneth. He married, 1814, Harriet, daughter of Jonathan Dennett. He died at Caerynwch on 27 November 1860. His brothers, ROBERT VAUGHAN RICHARDS and GRIFFITH RICHARDS, were both appointed queen's counsel in 1839 and were elected benchers of the Inner
RICHARDS, ALUN MORGAN (1929 - 2004), screenwriter, playwright, and author awarded an honorary fellowship by University College Swansea, where he worked for several years as an adult education tutor and helped to develop an archive of Welsh writing in English. In 1985-6, he travelled to Australia once again spending time as writer in residence at the University of Western Australia in Perth, at Griffith University in Brisbane, and at the University of Sydney. As for Wales: 'I
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1878 - 1962), librarian and historian 1958 and an hon. LL.D. degree of the University of Wales in 1959. In 1912 he married Mary Roberts of Nantlle; they had two daughters. He died 24 June 1962 and was buried in Bangor City Cemetery.
RICHARDS, WILLIAM LESLIE (1916 - 1989), Scholar, teacher, poet and author until his retirement in 1981. He published three novels, Yr Etifeddion (1956), Llanw a Thrai (1958) and Cynffon o Wellt (1960), and five volumes of poetry, Telyn Teilo (1957), Bro a Bryniau (1963), Dail yr Hydre (1968), Adledd (1973) and Cerddi'r Cyfnos (1986). In 1965 the University of Wales Press published his edition of the poems of Dafydd Llwyd o Fathafarn, a work which won the Sir Ellis Griffith
RICHARDSON, EVAN (1759 - 1824), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster and John Roberts (1752 - 1834) preached, by permission of George Lewis, outside Pen-dref Independent chapel. Soon after that, Richardson hired an upper room at Tan-yr-allt (on the Bethel road) for holding services, and in 1793 opened the first Calvinistic Methodist chapel in the town, on ' Mount Pleasant ' - it is today (since 1826) represented by Moriah chapel. Richardson was ordained at the first

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