Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, JOHN (Tegidon; 1810 - 1877), printer and poet became the chief agent of the Company, a position he retained for twenty years. As a printer he helped Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion), to establish his printing press at Tremadoc in 1854. He wrote much to Y Drysorfa, Y Gwyliedydd, Y Geiniogwerth, Seren Gomer, Y Methodist, and Y Traethodydd (1849-54). He was sub-editor of Y Gwyliedydd, and was editor of the poetry in Goleuad Cymru, 1822-38. He did
PRICE, THOMAS (Carnhuanawc; 1787 - 1848), historian and antiquary until 1841 when he built himself a house at Cwm-du. He received the rural deanery of the third part of Brecon South in 1832. A series of articles by Carnhuanawc appeared in Seren Gomer in 1824 and he continued to be a frequent contributor to Welsh periodicals down the years. He was also an enthusiastic supporter of the provincial eisteddfodau established in the years following 1819. His eloquent
PRICE, THOMAS (1820 - 1888), Baptist minister . William Edwards's book, Bapto a Baptiso (1857), Jiwbili Eglwys Calfaria, Aberdar (1862), and Trem (1885-6), together with many addresses, etc. But he was better known as the co-editor of Y Gwron (1855-60), Y Gweithiwr (1859-60), and Seren Cymru (1860-76); he also served as finance secretary to Seren Gomer (1853-59), and edited Y Medelwr Ieuanc and Y Gwyliedydd. No minister in Wales took such a prominent
PRICHARD, THOMAS JEFFERY LLEWELYN (d. 1875?), travelling actor and author Born in the parish of Trallong, Brecknock. He was married at Abergavenny, 14 January 1826, to Naomi Jones of Builth (Seren Gomer, 1826, 122). He is known to have taken part in plays given at Brecon in (e.g., 1841) and at Aberystwyth; it is also said that for some time he was employed by lady Llanover (when she was lady Hall) to catalogue the library in her Monmouthshire home. The work by which he
PUGH, JOHN (Ieuan Awst; 1783 - 1839), lawyer and poet published in the Dysgedydd, Seren Gomer, and similar periodicals, under the pseudonym Ieuan Awst. On 11 January 1815 he married Jane Oliver, daughter of Robert Oliver, Dolgelley, by whom he had eight children. He died 16 February 1839.
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
RHYS, WILLIAM JOSEPH (1880 - 1967), minister (B) and author Gelli, Rhondda. He began taking an interest, it appears, in the history of his denomination when he was about fifty years old. For the 30 years following the publication in Seren Gomer (1934-35) of a histo ry of the Baptists at Landore, he wrote articles regularly for Seren Cymru, Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, and Seren Gomer, and supplied a chronicle of church events regularly to the
RICHARDS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1818), General Baptist minister, theological and political controversialist, and antiquary . Before and after the West Wales Baptist schism of 1799, Richards rushed into the fray, against Calvinism and against the 'Methodistical' and revivalistic tendencies of the Particular Baptist leaders. He poured forth a series of 'Occasional Leaflets' (Papurynnau Achlysurol); these are now very scarce. His chief opponents were Evan Jones (1777 - 1819) of Cardigan and Joseph Harris (Gomer); the pamphlets
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter Griffiths, 'Amanwy', who edited O Lwch y Lofa (1924), a volume of collected poems by local miners, including Gomer Roberts. Every copy was sold and the profit of £30, as stated by John Griffiths in his introduction, presented to 'the talented poet Gomer Roberts - a young man of whom Wales will hear much more in the future.' Following his year at Birmingham, he entered Trevecka College, proceeding to the
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer , must have laid a restraint upon him in the subsequent years. A long illness in 1928-9 ended with his death on 3 January 1930. He was a man of unusually wide and modern reading, chiefly, of course, in philosophy (especially psychology) and theology. His editorship of Seren Gomer (1909-11) was cut short by the enforced retirement already mentioned, but later on he contributed much to the periodical
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Nefydd; 1813 - 1872), Baptist minister, printer, author, eisteddfodwr, South Wales representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society Seren Gomer for some years, but it is not known whether he printed more than one number of that journal (NLW MSS 7077-8A, 7079B). Prominent in Baptist circles, he became well-known in educational circles also, particularly after he had been appointed (in 1853) South Wales agent for the British and Foreign Schools Society (NLW MS 7096A, NLW MS 7106E, NLW MS 7107C). For eleven years he was busy with the
ROGERS, RICHARD SAMUEL (1882 - 1950), minister (B), editor and writer ), Pontlotyn, in 1906, and served ministries at Rhos, Mountain Ash, 1908-1915, and at Gomer chapel, Swansea, 1915-48. He retired in 1948. His theological works include two volumes on eschatology - Y Deyrnas a'r Ail Ddyfodiad, 1914, and Athrawiaeth y Diwedd, 1934, the subject of his M.A. thesis. His commentary on the Book of Revelations appeared in 1944 and he published a volume of well-polished sermons

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