Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PUGH, JOHN (1846 - 1907), Calvinistic Methodist minister, founder and first superintendent of the C.M. Forward Movement died 24 March (Palm Sunday) 1907. While he was superintendent he started forty-eight mission-halls and a home for destitute women (Kingswood Treborth Home) at Cardiff. In order to ensure the necessary publicity he started a monthly of which, for many years, he was editor-in-chief - The Christian Standard, 1891-3; The Forward Movement Herald, 1897; The Forward Movement Torch, 1899-1904.
PUGH, LEWIS HENRY OWAIN (1907 - 1981), soldier , Wiltshire in 1941 and they had 2 daughters. In 1978 the family moved to Wonastow House, Wonastow, Monmouthshire. Lewis Pugh died, aged 73, 10 March 1981. The funeral was in St Thomas, Overmonnow, Monmouth 16 March followed by cremation.
PUGH, WILLIAM (1783 - 1842) Bryn-llywarch, Radical landlord and entrepreneur go abroad to Caen (October 1835). Even there he directed and largely financed a campaign for a railway to carry the Irish mails through Ludlow, Newtown, and Dolgelley to Porthdinllaen (instead of Holyhead). He died on 4 March 1842, and was buried at Caen.
PUGH, WILLIAM JOHN (1892 - 1974), Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain contributions to the advancement, teaching and organization of geological sciences he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1951, and knighted in 1956. He married in London during summer 1919 Manon Clayton Davies Bryan (died 1973), second daughter of Joseph Davies Bryan, Alexandria, Egypt; they had four sons. He died 18 March 1974 at 171 Oakwood Court, Kensington, London.
PUGHE, JOHN (Ioan ab Hu Feddyg; 1814 - 1874), physician and littérateur ; she died 14 September 1862, at Penhelyg, Aberdovey. Four of their sons were physicians, John Eliot Howard (died 1880), Rheinallt Navalaw, Taliesin William Owen (died 1893), who practised at Liverpool, and David Roberts (died 1885), who lived in Montgomeryshire. Their daughter was BUDDUG ANWYLINI PUGHE, the artist, who died in Liverpool, 2 March, 1939, at the age of 83. Buddug Pughe wrote a history
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, ' foresta domini Rogeri de Pyvylston ' occurs as a boundary in a deed of sale of lands in Gwillington (Archæologia Cambrensis, 1888, 32, 293). On 20 March 1293/4 he was appointed by Edward I the first sheriff of Anglesey (Cal. Welsh Rolls, 283), and as such was responsible for levying the odious tax of a fifteenth on moveables which precipitated the revolt led by Madog ap Llywelyn in the autumn of 1294
PULESTON, JOHN (c. 1583 - 1659), judge later alleged on Hamner's behalf that he occupied the house at Mrs. Puleston's request for the protection of the property, and did his utmost to prevent any depredations. The family, meanwhile, took refuge with neighbours, and although the house was retaken for Parliament temporarily c. March 1644, and finally towards the end of the year, the family does not appear to have lived there again until
RADMILOVIC, PAUL (1886 - 1968), swimmer Born 5 March 1886 in Cardiff, of a Greek father and Irish mother, but he lived most of his life at Weston-super-Mare. He competed in five Olympic Games from 1908 to 1928 and won gold medals in three of them - for water-polo in 1908, 1912, 1920 and as a member of the British relay team in 1908. Had World War I not prevented the Games being held in 1916, Raddy - as he was called - must have won
RATHBONE, WILLIAM (1819 - 1902), philanthropist collected money towards scholarships; he was vice-president of the college from 1884 till 1892, and then president till 1900. In and out of Parliament, he worked hard for the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889; he was especially interested in the school at Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, where he saw an opportunity for technical education, a matter of keen interest to him. He died 6 March 1902. His great
REES family Ton In 1771 RICE REES married one of the daughters of the Rev. William Jenkins of Pen-y-waun in the parish of Llanfair-ar-y-bryn. Rice died 2 March 1826. Of his six children, two sons and one daughter may be mentioned: (1) William Jenkins Rees (1772 - 1855) - see the article on him. (2) DAVID RICE REES (1787 - 1856), born at Llandovery, 6 August 1787; he was a shop assistant in various places in
REES, BOWEN (1857 - 1929), missionary Born 16 March 1857, at Ivy Bush Inn, Llandybïe, Carmarthenshire, youngest of the six children of Jacob Rees, stone mason, and his wife Margaret, daughter of the publican Richard Bowen. The family moved to Ystalyfera, Glamorganshire, and he began working in a smithy when he was nine years old. He set his heart on being a missionary after hearing an address by Thomas Morgan Thomas, ' Thomas of
REES, DAVID (1801 - 1869), Congregational minister, and editor , David Owen (Brutus), in Yr Haul. Brutus attacked and made light of the influence of Nonconformity but David Rees defended its foundations and its principles. Through the medium of Y Diwygiwr he succeeded in bringing into being a new outlook on radical Nonconformity. He retired from the editorship of Y Diwygiwr in 1865 and from the ministry in 1868. He died 31 March 1869.

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