Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PULESTON, JOHN (c. 1583 - 1659), judge ), of his uncle George Puleston, brother and heir to Sir Roger (1566 - 1618). His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Woolrych, of Dudmaston, Salop, and an earnest Presbyterian, was installed there with her infant children by the beginning of the Civil War, when they were forced to leave owing to the occupation and garrisoning of the house for the king (c. September 1642) by Sir John Hanmer; it was
PULESTON, Sir JOHN HENRY (1829 - 1908), banker and Member of Parliament Wilson in the Civil War. After returning to England he became Member of Parliament for Devonport, 1874-92; in 1892 he unsuccessfully opposed David Lloyd George in the Caernarvonshire election. He was knighted in 1887, and was at one time lord-lieutenant of the city of London and constable of Caernarvon castle. Sir John was a leading Churchman, a conscientious Conservative, and, an ardent Welshman, who
RANDLES, EDWARD (1763 - 1820), blind harpist and organist Born 1763 at Wrexham, the son of Edward Randles, butcher. He was taught the harp by John Parry, Ruabon. In 1788 he was appointed organist of Wrexham parish church. George Thomson, Edinburgh, in the introduction to his Alawon Cymreig, refers to him as a very proficient harpist. He and his daughter, Elizabeth Randles, played before George III and queen Charlotte. He died 23 August 1820 at Wrexham.
RANDLES, ELIZABETH (1801? - 1829), harpist and pianist Born 24 May 1801, the daughter of Edward Randles, Wrexham. While very young she became prominent by reason of her ability to play the harp and the piano. She went on a concert tour through parts of England; she also played, with her father, before George III and queen Charlotte. She and two sisters moved to Liverpool, and it was there that she died in June 1829.
RAVENSCROFT family Ravenscroft, grandson Ralph Ravenscroft, we come to two of this Ralph's sons, (I) George and (II) John. (I) GEORGE RAVENSCROFT 'of Bretton ', Ralph's eldest son, opens a line of squires who were prominent in Flintshire; he was alive in 1517, and his son THOMAS RAVENSCROFT was alive in 1547. Thomas's eldest son was GEORGE RAVENSCROFT, sheriff in 1578-9, who died in 1592 and is commemorated (like others of the family
REES, DOROTHY MARY (1898 - 1987), Labour politician and alderman of Howells School, Llandaff, and in 1960 she was appointed to the chair of the Further Education Sub-committee of the Glamorgan County Council. She remained a warm supporter of the right of women to a higher education. She was made a CBE in 1964 and a DBE in 1975. She was married to David George Rees (the eldest son of David F. Rees of Barry) who died 8 November 1938. Their home was 'Morhafren
REES, GEORGE (d. 1795), Baptist minister
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, GEORGE OWEN (1813 - 1889), physician - see REES, JOSIAH
REES, HENRY (1798 - 1869), most famous minister among the Calvinistic Methodists in his day Thomas Charles's house - this was the only occasion on which these three great leaders of Calvinistic Methodism met. Henry Rees started to preach about the end of 1818. He gave evidence of remarkable powers in the pulpit - listening to him caused John Jones, Tal-y-sarn, to give himself to the ministry. He was at school under T. Lloyd, Abergele, 1819-21. He was licensed as preacher, 1820. In 1821 he
REES, Sir JOHN MILSOM (1866 - 1952), surgeon and laryngologist service to the Royal Family; he was laryngologist to King George V throughout the twenty-six years of his reign, and to Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra and Queen Maude of Norway. He was knighted in 1916, appointed K.C.V.O. in 1923, and promoted to G.C.V.O. in 1934. The University of Wales conferred upon him an honorary D.Sc. in 1931. Milsom Rees was officially associated with many of the leading London
REES, JOSIAH (1744 - 1804), Unitarian minister Leghorn in 1803 when the South Wales Unitarian Association list was published, but had become British Consul at Smyrna by November 1813 when his son G. O. Rees was born. GEORGE OWEN REES (1813 - 1889), physician Medicine He became a famous physician. He studied at Guy's Hospital, in Paris, and at Glasgow, and practised in London from 1836 onwards. He was paralysed in 1886, and died at Watford 27 May

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