Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PUGH, WILLIAM (1783 - 1842) Bryn-llywarch, Radical landlord and entrepreneur more direct access to South Wales via Newtown and Builth. As a magistrate he was popular and helped to prevent the outbreak of serious food riots in the hard winter of 1830. He organized local support for the Reform Bill, but declined to stand for Parliament and failed to break the fifty years' monopoly of the county seat by C. W. Williams Wynn, in whose eyes Pugh was one of the ' new race of
PUGHE, JOHN (Ioan ab Hu Feddyg; 1814 - 1874), physician and littérateur a close friend of Eben Fardd. In Eben's Cyff Beuno there are many notes by Pughe. He published an entertaining biography of the bard: Eben Fardd: ei nodion a'i hynodion. He also translated Meddygon Myddfai, the Physicians of Myddfai, edited by John Williams, Ab Ithel, and published by the Welsh MSS. Society, 1864. He married Catherine Samuel, daughter of Samuel Samuel, Caernarfon, 21 February 1839
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
RANKIN, SUSANNAH JANE (1897 - 1989), minister (Cong.) and missionary in Papua Susannah Jane, born 26 November 1897, was the fourth of the nine children born to Frank and Jane Ellis at Pengorffwysfa farm, not far from the town of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, and it was at Pendref Chapel that she was accepted into membership. From Llanfyllin Grammar School, she went to the University College, Bangor, where she remained from 1918 to 1922, gaining her B.A., with Honours in
RAVENSCROFT family Ravenscroft, P. Fadog, iii, 181). Robert's son was colonel THOMAS RAVENSCROFT, who acquired some notoriety in the Civil War. Though his wife was a daughter of that zealous Royalist William Salusbury of Rug, he sided with the Parliamentarians, and in November 1643 handed over to them the castle of Hawarden - ' betrayed by one Ravenscroft ', as archbishob John Williams scornfully describes the surrender (J. R
REES, DAVID (1751 - 1818), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 1751 at Cymrig, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, son of Rhys Rees, one of the leading members of the Methodist society at Llanfynydd. He began to preach in 1782 and soon came into prominence both in North and South Wales; on one occasion he accompanied Williams of Pantycelyn on a preaching tour. He was conscripted into the army but was released through the influence of one of the local gentry
REES, DAVID JAMES (1913 - 1983), golfer and author his father. Soon he was making a name for himself and won the PGA Assistants Championship in 1935 and 1936. He moved to South Hertfordshire Golf Club, Totteridge after the death of Harry Vardon in 1937 and he was associated with them as professional for 37 years. (It is interesting to note that his daughter Gill Williams was the Captain of the South Hertfordshire Golf Club in 2008, an honour that
REES, EBENEZER (1848 - 1908), printer and publisher Born 1848 in Sirhowy, Monmouthshire. He was orphaned and brought up by relatives of his mother- David Clee and his wife in Cwmtwrch. He received little education and commenced work in one of the local collieries when he was seven years old. He left Cwmtwrch aged 18 years and worked in coalmines in Aberdare and Mountain Ash, returning to the Ystalyfera district in 1868 when he married Jane, the
REES, EDWARD WALTER (Gwallter Dyfi; 1881 - 1940), bank manager and bearer of the Gorsedd sword Born 8 October 1881 son of Richard Rees ('Maldwyn ', died 1927) and Jane (née Jones) his wife, of Medical Hall, Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Machynlleth county school before becoming a bank clerk, and eventually manager of Barclay's Bank in Cardigan and later in Carmarthen (1926-40). On 8 December 1914 he married Frances Anne Rees, Goleufryn, Whitchurch, Glamorganshire, and
REES, JOSIAH (1744 - 1804), Unitarian minister first Welsh magazine to find any sort of public. Whether Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) was also concerned in the venture is still not quite clear (see Gomer M. Roberts, Bywyd a Gwaith Peter Williams, 176-84), but modern opinion tends to the contrary. In theology, there is no doubt that Rees was an Arian from his early days; by the end of the century he was a declared Unitarian - his name stands first
REES, MERLYN (1920 - 2006), politician Merlyn Rees was born on 18 December 1920 at William Street, Cilfynydd near Pontypridd, Glamorgan, the only child of Levi Daniel Rees, a coal miner, and his wife Edith Mary (née Williams). At least three generations of the Rees family had worked underground in the coal pits of south. The family were committed Baptists, and an early memory was attending the local Baptist Sunday school. Levi Rees
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator 1948: Margaret Jane ('Jenny'), Rees's biographer (1942), Lucy (1943), the twins Thomas and Daniel (1948); to be followed by Matthew (1954-2016). The students took to the new principal, to his 'versatility of achievement and cosmopolitan range' - something he quickly demonstrated in Conversations with Kafka (his translation of Gustav Janouch, 1953) and The Answers of Ernst von Salomon (1954), with its

Search results

889 - 900 of 1459 for "Jane Williams"