Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, JOHN ROLAND (1844 - 1887), historian documents. This was a remarkable production for so young a man. He also wrote Historical Notes on Newcastle Emlyn, 1867; A List of the Sheriffs of Cardiganshire, 1868; An Attempt at a Concise History of Glamorgan, 1879 and 1888; Memoirs of the Ancient Family of Owen of Orielton, 1886. At the time of his early death he had in preparation a history of Wales in the Tudor period and a history of the castles
PROBERT, ARTHUR REGINALD (1909 - 1975), Labour politician . Following the death of the sitting Labour MP D. Emlyn Thomas, Probert was elected MP for the Aberdare constituency in a by-election in October 1954 and held the seat until his retirement in February 1974. In the 1954 by-election he was opposed by Michael Roberts for the Conservatives and Gwynfor Evans, president of Plaid Cymru since 1945. He was secretary to the Welsh PLP, 1956-59, an opposition whip
PUDDICOMBE, ANNE ADALISA (Allen Raine; 1836 - 1908), novelist Born 6 October 1836 in Bridge Street, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, the eldest child of Benjamin and Letitia Grace Evans. Her father was a lawyer, and a grandson of David Davis of Castellhywel (1745 - 1827), whilst her mother was the daughter of Thomas Morgan, a surgeon of Newcastle Emlyn, and grand-daughter of Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho (1713 - 1790). During childhood she attended a school
REES, Dr. DAVID (1818 - 1904) Bronnant, preacher with the Calvinistic Methodists Born 4 June 1818 at Blaentrosol, Capel Drindod, Llandyfrïog, Cardiganshire, son of Daniel Rees, shoemaker, and Mary (alias Malen) his wife. The son learnt to practise his father's craft. He began to preach on 21 April 1846 and went to a Unitarian school at Newcastle Emlyn for about three years. In 1857 he moved to the parish of Llanilar, but after his marriage on 6 January 1860, to Anne Rees
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (Yr Arglwydd Rhys, The lord Rhys), (1132 - 1197), lord of Deheubarth Ceredigion and Emlyn (including the fortresses of Cardigan and Kilgerran) and very soon re-established himself in the position from which he had been ousted in 1158. For the remainder of his life he was able to maintain unquestioned control of these territories, and, indeed, to add to them portions of Dyfed : that he was able to do so was due to a combination of favourable circumstances. There was little
RHYS ap MAREDUDD (d. 1292), lord of Dryslwyn in Ystrad Tywi , joining in the attack on Llanbadarn and patrolling Ceredigion for the king in the absence of the royal commander. After 1283 he was recognized as ' dominus de Estretewy ' and was granted the homages of Welsh chieftains in north Carmarthenshire; he married, in 1285, Ada de Hastings, and received with her the castle of Newcastle Emlyn. But the actions of the royal officials of the shire irked him, and
RICHARDS, JOHN (fl. 1778-1808), Baptist minister The date of his death is unknown but it is known that he dwelt in Blaengwyddon and that he was ordained at Newcastle Emlyn at the close of 1778. It was he who started to preach at Llwyndafydd, Cardiganshire, in 1778 and urged the brethren there to raise a chapel in 1779. It was he also who baptized the first seven persons meeting at the ' Engine ' (Landore, Swansea) and incorporated them into a
RICHARDS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1818), General Baptist minister, theological and political controversialist, and antiquary March 1798, and again when from the end of 1799 till the beginning of 1802 he resided at Parc-Nest near Newcastle Emlyn. He was a fair classical scholar, and developed a vigorous English style, but none the less clung to his Welsh, as is proved by his scathing pamphlets in Welsh, not to mention his English-Welsh Dictionary (1798; the Welsh - English section was left in manuscript) - indeed, his
ROBERTS, EDWARD (1886 - 1975), minister (Bapt.) and college principal marking the third jubilee of the College's foundation. After his retirement, he lived for a time in Cardiff, travelling on Sundays to serve the churches in the South Wales valleys. When his wife died in 1968 he moved to live with one of his doctor sons, first in Worcester and later in Birkenhead. His last years were spent in Glyn Nest, the retirement home opened by the Baptists in Newcastle Emlyn. He
ROBERTS, EVAN JOHN (Y Diwygiwr, the Revivalist; 1878 - 1951), revivalist preacher prayed for thirteen years for a religious revival in Wales. At the close of 1903 he began to preach in Moriah, Loughor, and he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry by the Presbyterian Church of Wales. At the end of September 1904 he entered the school kept by John Phillips, Newcastle Emlyn, to prepare himself for the ministry. Religious life was being awoken in south Cardiganshire at the time
ROBERTS, JOHN (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician , Aberystwyth, issued the first number of Telyn y Plant, the name of which was changed in 1861 to Trysorfa y Plant; Ieuan Gwyllt was responsible for the hymn-tunes. In 1859 he was asked to become minister of Pant-tywyll Calvinistic Methodist church, Merthyr Tydfil; he was ordained on 7 August 1861 at the Newcastle Emlyn Association. In March 1861 he issued the first number of Y Cerddor Cymreig, a periodical
ROBERTS, JOHN HENRY (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848 - 1924), musician ). Other hymnals with which he was connected were Llyfr Hymnau a Thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1897, Llawlyfr Moliant yr Ysgol Sul, 1897 (with W. T. Samuel), Llyfr Tonau y Methodistiaid Wesleyaidd, 1904 (with D. Emlyn Evans and Wilfred Jones). He was a contributor to Y Cerddor. He died 6 August 1924 and was buried in Smithdown Road cemetery, Liverpool.

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