Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters independent - a state of affairs which he endeavoured to rectify. He was accused of adopting the code of the Plymouth Brethren, and Gwilym Hiraethog thundered against him and his opinions in sermons delivered at the Caernarvon and Llangefni Assemblies of July 1844. At the Aberffraw eisteddfod, 1849, he was made a bard and given the name Gweirydd ap Rhys. Quite certainly, there was no more industrious Welsh
PUGH family Mathafarn, The first prominent member of the family was Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn, the poet who fl. c. 1480 and who was the author of a number of vaticinatory poems about Henry Tudor (Henry VII). He apparently possessed an extensive estate on both sides of the river Dyfi above Machynlleth. The line was continued by EVAN AP DAVID LLOYD and by HUGH AB EVAN, whose son, JOHN AP HUGH, served as a county
PUGH, ELLIS (1656 - 1718), Quaker Born at Penrhos, near Tyddyn-y-garreg, Dolgelley, Meironnydd, in June 1656 (in August, according to NLW MS 9270A). His father had died before he was born and his mother died soon after giving birth to him. When he was 18 years old he joined the Society of Friends under the influence of John ap John; six years later he himself began to minister among Friends. In 1686 he and his family and many
PUGHE, WILLIAM OWEN (1759 - 1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet -English dictionary. The work grew to an enormous extent. The first part appeared in 1793; in 1803 the whole work was published in two large volumes, which included a Welsh grammar also. It was Owen Pughe who assisted Owain Myfyr to edit Barddoniaeth Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1789; in 1792 he published the poetry of Llywarch Hen, with an English translation. He edited the English magazine, The Cambrian Register
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, -wern, in the same area, had come into possession of the Puleston family through the marriage of JOHN PULESTON of Plas-ym-mers, a grandson of the Robert and Lowry, previously mentioned, and Alswn, daughter and heiress of Hywel ap Ieuan ap Gruffydd of Hafod-y-wern. JOHN PULESTON (' HEN '), of Hafod-y-wern, the eldest son of this John Puleston, fought at Bosworth, and for his services on that occasion
PUW family, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, Five of its members will be noticed: ROBERT PUW (died c. 1629), Roman Catholic recusant Religion Second son of Huw ap Reinallt ab Ieuan of Penrhyn Creuddyn, Caernarfonshire. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley. His grandson, Gwilym Puw (below), states that he was educated at Oxford. He entered the Middle Temple, 30 November 1567 (Register of Admissions to the Middle Temple, I, 32
RAFF ap ROBERT (fl. 1550) Cilgwyn, Bachymbyd, 'a free holder of Dyffryn Clwyd' and a non-professional poet Hiraethog and englynion in interchanges with Robin Clidro and Wiliam Llŷn. Edwart ap Raff was his son.
RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1512 - 1558), mathematician and physician Robert Recorde was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the second of two sons of Thomas Recorde of Tenby and Ros Johns, daughter of Thomas ap John ap Sion, of Machynlleth. This was a second marriage for Thomas, the first to Joan Ysteven of Tenby being of short duration and childless. Thomas Recorde inherited a mercantile business founded in the town by the boys' paternal grandfather Roger Recorde. It
REES, JOHN THOMAS (1857 - 1949), musician Dafydd ap Gwilym) in association with S.M. Powell at Tregaron; and 'Hillsides of Wales' for violin and piano. He also edited a collection of hymn-tunes by David Lewis, Llanrhystud, Perorydd yr Ysgol Sul (a collection of children's hymn-tunes and anthems), and was joint-editor of Llyfr hymnau a thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd (1897) and Emynau a thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd a Wesleyaidd (1927
REES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Hiraethog; 1802 - 1883), Independent minister, writer editor, and political leader inherited Chwibren-isaf. The only education William Rees ever had was at the village school during the winter months, and he began to work on the farm and as a shepherd at an early age. However, he proceeded to educate himself, and under the direction of Robert ap Dafydd of Cilfach Lwyd, an old bachelor who lived in a near-by farm, learned the rules of Welsh prosody and in 1826 won the prize at Brecon
RHIRID FLAIDD (fl. 1160), nobleman and warrior in Llŷn) Haer had a daughter, Generis, the mother of Rhirid Flaidd. Haer is supposed to have taken Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, king of Powys, as her second husband, and Gwrgenau consequently received lands in Powys from his wife's half-brother, king Maredudd. Rhirid, who is said to have inherited his father's lands in Mochnant and Penllyn, at Pennant Melangell and Rhiwaedog, as well as the maternal
RHISIART ap ROBERT Nantlle, Plas Newydd - see GLYN

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