Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
RHISIERDYN (fl. latter half of the 14th century) Gwynedd, poet awdl to Sir Hywel y Fwyall. The awdl to the abbot of Aberconwy which The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales attributes to Casnodyn is given in NLW MS 4973B 260b to Rhisierdyn, and Peniarth MS 118 (140) attributes to Rhisierdyn the pious ode 'y Duw uchaf y Kyfarchaf …' which is ascribed in R. B. H. Poetry (col. 1251) to Bleddyn Ddu. Many manuscripts (e.g. Bodl. 1 and 2, Peniarth MS 90 and Peniarth MS 100
RHOBERT AP DAFYDD LLWYD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet Sir William Gruffydd of Penrhyn), to Elis Prys of Plas Iolyn, and to Siôn Conwy. Gutun Tomas and he composed satires upon each other.
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron genealogical records, Rhydderch had seven sons and five daughters with his two wives, Margred, daughter of Gruffudd Gryg ab Ieuan Fychan, and Mawd, daughter of Sir William Clement, Lord of Tregaron, as well as an extra-marital son, Guto. According to Bartrum (Cydifor ap Gweithfoed 3) and Lewys Dwnn (p. 45), Ieuan ap Rhydderch, who became a well-known poet, was the son of Rhydderch and Mawd, but elsewhere (p
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1356), nobleman Carmarthen and Cardigan, passed to his son, Sir RHYS THE YOUNGER (born 1325). These unusually large Welsh estates for the period in which Sir Rhys flourished, and indeed the first of their kind in Wales, continued in the hands of his male descendants until the marriage towards the close of the 15th century of a sole remaining female descendant with Thomas ap Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Dinefwr; the eldest son
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD Sir (d. 1531) - see RICE

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