Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
REES, THOMAS WYNFORD (Dagger; 1898 - 1959), major-general Born in 1898 at Holyhead, Anglesey, but spent his early years in Barry, Glamorganshire where his father, T.M. Rees, was pastor of Bethel (Meth.). He married 1926 Rosalie, eldest daughter of Sir Charles Innes and had one son (Peter Rees, M.P. (C), Dover), and one daughter. Acknowledged as one of Wales ' finest soldier s during and between the two world wars, and a distinguished campaigner in Far
REES, WALTER ENOCH (1863 - 1949), contractor and long-standing secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union Born 13 April 1863 at Neath, Glamorganshire, son of Joseph Cook Rees, builder and contractor. He was educated at Neath and Barnstaple. He began his very long career as a rugby administrator in 1888 when he became secretary of the Neath club. He was elected to the council of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1889, and in 1896 he succeeded William Henry Gwynn (Swansea) as secretary of the Union. No-one has
REICHEL, Sir HENRY RUDOLF (1856 - 1931), principal of University College, Bangor
REICHEL, Sir HENRY RUDOLF - see REICHEL, Sir HARRY
REYNOLDS, JONATHAN OWAIN (Nathan Dyfed; 1814 - 1891), author with the Thomas Stephens MSS. described on pages 66, 71-7 in the same volume). These manuscripts are evidence of Reynolds's great services to Welsh and Celtic studies. He was on friendly terms with (Sir) John Rhys (see, e.g., NLW MSS 998C) and other Celtic scholars. It was he who saw through the press (1893) the famous essay written in 1858 by Thomas Stephens on the Madoc legend. NLW MS 986C and NLW
RHISIART FYNGLWYD (fl. 1510-1570), poet members of the Dwnn family, particularly to Gruffudd Dwnn of Ystrad Merthyr, and Harry, his son. Rhisiart Fynglwyd was feasting at Ystrad Merthyr at Whitsuntide 1531 and 1533, and on S. Davids Day 1536 and 1537, and was in Sir George Herbert's home in Swansea about 1543. Professor G. J. Williams suggests that perhaps his most interesting poem is his cywydd of intercession between Sir George Herbert and
RHISIART OWEN (ap RHISIART) (fl. c. 1622) Y Lasynys,, poet Some of his work remains in manuscripts. This includes an elegy to Sir William Maurice of Clenennau, in Brogyntyn MS. 3 (175), cywyddau in praise of Humphrey Jones of Craflwyn, in Brogyntyn MS. 3 (204) and Llanstephan MS 125 (716), various englynion in NLW MS 566B (93b) and NLW MS 643B (78), and a poem in free metre which is found in NLW MS 566B (125). (It is not clear whether he is the poet

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