Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RICHARDS, ALUN MORGAN (1929 - 2004), screenwriter, playwright, and author married Barbara Helen Howden (1933-2008), then a probation officer, in London on 8 June 1957, and settled in Cardiff, where he taught English in a secondary school for the next ten years. In the late-1960s, the family relocated to Swansea. Together, Alun and Helen Richards had three sons - Stephen (1958-), Michael (1960-), Daniel (1966-) - and a daughter, Jessica (1961-). Alun Richards's literary break
RICHARDS, DAVID MORGAN (1853 - 1913), journalist and eisteddfodwr : down to 1823 it has bibliographical references, and additional notes down to 1860; it also includes an essay on the old eisteddfodau held at Aberdare. Richards died 2 June 1913.
RICHARDS, GRAFTON MELVILLE (1910 - 1973), Welsh scholar . He died at his home in Benllech, Anglesey 3 November 1973; the funeral service was held in Colwyn Bay Crematorium 8 November.
RICHARDS, HENRY BRINLEY (1819 - 1885), musician respect proving a more popular work than his Welsh Choir. He was a prominent member of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion from 1873 until his death on 2 May 1885; he was buried in the Brompton cemetery, London.
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1800 - 1877), Australian journalist Born at Dolgelley (christened there 17 August 1800), son of Thomas Richards, lawyer, Dolgelley, and Elizabeth his wife. He lost his father at the age of 8. Thomas entered Christ's Hospital in 1809, later following a medical course, and was received as Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1823. His early literary efforts in London appeared in the Monthly Magazine, and in other journals
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1754 - 1837), cleric Thomas Charles, and he served there for fifteen years at a stipend of £30 per annum. He augmented this pittance by keeping a school. After representations made by his friend Thomas Jones and others, he was appointed vicar of Darowen, near Machynlleth, by bishop Bagot of S. Asaph, and instituted to the living in August 1800. He laboured there devotedly till his death on 2 December 1837; he is buried at
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1859 - 1931), Member of Parliament and secretary of the South Wales Miners Federation Born 8 June 1859 at Beaufort, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, son of Thomas and Mary Richards. He was educated at Beaufort British School, and began work at a colliery when he was twelve years old. He played a prominent part in the work of the miners' unions in the Ebbw Vale area, and was a member of the Sliding Scale Association. In 1891 he was elected a member of Monmouth county council, and was made
RICHARDS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1818), General Baptist minister, theological and political controversialist, and antiquary , on both sides, are scurrilous and even libellous. After the death of his wife (a daughter of Maneian-fawr farm near Parc-Nest) in 1805, Richards was long a hermit. In these years he published his History of Lynn (2 vols., 1812), which is well spoken of, and his biographical and historical articles in the Monthly Repository - afterwards published in volume form, The Welsh Nonconformists's Memorial
RIGBY, THOMAS (c. 1783 - 1841), publican and barber George (1824-1844), Alexander (1826-1833), Thomas junior (1829-1844), Elizabeth (1834-1834), William (1838-1892), Jane (1839-1840) and Caroline (1840-1876). Mary Ann became a cook, working in service in a Swansea doctor's family. William became a cabinet maker and moved to Merthyr Tydfil. Thomas Rigby died on 8 March 1841 in Llanelli, where he ran the Union Tavern, and was buried two days later in
RINVOLUCRI, GIUSEPPE (1890 - 1962), engineer and architect Giuseppe Rinvolucri was born on 8 September 1890 in Savigliano, Piedmont, Italy, the son of Guglielmo Rinvolucri, an engineer, and his wife Maria Anna Ferrero. He was probably an only child, and his father died in a train crash when Guiseppe was very young. His mother also died before he reached adulthood. After attending schools in Mondovì, Piedmont, he studied engineering, specializing in
ROBERT (ab) IFAN (fl. c. 1572-1603), poet : Llawysgrif Christ Church 184 (copi): Rhan 1- NLW MS 6496C: Llawysgrif Christ Church 184 (copi): Rhan 2) and in Peniarth MS 72. 'Robert Ifan lan lonydd' is mentioned in Thomas Prys's 'Cywydd i yrru yr Eryr at brydyddion i neges.' (J. Fisher, The Cefn Coch MSS., 1899, 23.)
ROBERTS, DAVID OWEN (1888 - 1958), educationalist in 1928 until his death. He published very useful textbooks facilitating the teaching of Welsh, namely Llwybr y Gymraeg 1, 2 and 3 and Priffordd y Gymraeg 1, 2 and 3 (both series pre-1930) and Cynllun Newydd yn y Gymraeg (1930), followed by Some Notes of Lessons for Teachers of 'Priffordd y Gymraeg' (1932). He contributed to Yr Athro a number of articles and notes on teaching Welsh and gave

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