Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RAVENSCROFT family Ravenscroft, . Phillips, Civil War in Wales, i, 180, ii, 99). In May 1648 he was a member of the parliamentary committee which supervised Flintshire; but after 1660 was pardoned. He was succeeded by his son EDWARD RAVENSCROFT, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Lloyd of Esclus, and died in 1678. Their son was the last male of the line, THOMAS RAVENSCROFT 'of Broadlane ' (1670 - 1698), sheriff in 1692, Member of
RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1512 - 1558), mathematician and physician accounting. Chamberlain soon departed as ambassador to Denmark, leaving Recorde to become under treasurer in his stead. While in charge at Bristol Recorde was involved in an unpleasant altercation with Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (c.1501-1570). Pembroke demanded funds to provision the army he was marching to the West Country in order to suppress a peasant rebellion. Recorde refused to provide any
REES, BRINLEY RODERICK (1919 - 2004), classical scholar, educationist and university college principal (Trinity Term 1946). In 1947-8 Rees was assistant classics master, first at Christ College, Brecon, then at Cardiff High School for Boys, before appointment in 1948 to his first university post as assistant lecturer, subsequently lecturer, in Classics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. In Aberystwyth he was much influenced by the eminent papyrologist Sir Harold Idris Bell, who had recently
REES, DAVID (1683? - 1748), Baptist minister and theological writer sermons entitled (5) The State of True Religion in all ages …, 1726, (6) A Modest Plea for the maintenance of the Christian Ministry …, 1729, and (7) A View of the Divine Conduct, in the Government of this Lower World …, 1730. His funeral sermon, by Joseph Stennett, appeared under the title of The Everlasting Covenant the best Support …, 1748.
REES, DOROTHY MARY (1898 - 1987), Labour politician and alderman Insurance. She was the first woman to represent a south Wales constituency in parliament. In the general election of 1951 she was narrowly defeated by the Conservative candidate Sir Raymond Gower. She was again re-adopted as the Labour candidate for Barry in 1952. She was appointed a Freeman of Barry in 1956. She was chairman of the Morgannwg Hospital Management Committee and of the Barry National
REES, Sir JAMES FREDERICK (1883 - 1967), Principal of the University College at Cardiff
REES, Sir JOHN MILSOM (1866 - 1952), surgeon and laryngologist
REES, JOHN THOMAS (1857 - 1949), musician the sol-fa notation between 1876 and 1879 under the tuition of D. W. Lewis, Brynaman. At twenty-one he gained some prominence as the composer of a cantata which he submitted for competition at a Treherbert eisteddfod. A modest fund raised by friends enabled him to study with Joseph Parry at Aberystwyth in 1879, but his financial resources were few and the outlook bleak until David Jenkins opened the
REES, JOSIAH (1744 - 1804), Unitarian minister on the list of the committee of the South Wales Unitarian Association, dated 8 October 1802, and he was the preacher at that Association's first public assembly, at Cefn-coed-cymer, 26 June 1803. It was under the Association's auspices that he published in 1804 the tract (of which no copy is now known to have survived) which provoked in the same year the reply by Joseph Harris (Gomer), Bwyall Crist
REES, LEWIS (1710 - 1800), Independent minister Born 2 March 1710, at Glynllwydrew, Blaen Glyn Nedd, Glamorganshire, son of Rees Edward Lewis, and a grandson to the incumbent of the parish of Penderyn. His father left the Established Church and brought up his son as a Nonconformist. He was educated at the Blaen-gwrach school kept by Henry Davies (1696? - 1766), the minister, and in schools conducted by Joseph Simmons, Swansea, Rees Price, Tyn
REES, RICE (1804 - 1839), cleric and scholar nature, and his book, The Welsh Saints, is, according to the article on him by (Sir) J. E. Lloyd in the D.N.B., 'full and illuminating' and remains the standard authority on this subject; it was originally a prize essay at the Carmarthen eisteddfod (1835), but in 1836 was enlarged into a book which was published by his brother, William Rees (1808 - 1873). He edited an impression of Canwyll y Cymry
REES, THOMAS (1869 - 1926), principal of Bala-Bangor Independent College strengthening the ministry; and he succeeded in rousing the interest and enlisting the support of Sir Harry Reichel in his efforts to get the charter of the University of Wales changed so as to allow theology to be recognized as a subject of study. In 1922 the University College of North Wales was granted a supplementary charter and the Bangor School of Theology was established. In the course of the 1914-18

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