Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, WILLIAM HOPKYN (1859 - 1924), missionary, linguist, author Born 24 April 1859 at Cwmavon, Glamorganshire. He entered Bala Independent College, 1877, and was minister of Llechryd and Ffynnon-bedr from 1881 to 1883, when he sailed for the North China, L.M.S., mission field. He married Margaret Charlotte Harrison of Coed-poeth, and settled at Chi Chou in 1888, where he had founded a station. He weathered the difficulties of the 1900 rebellion, and was
REES, WILLIAM THOMAS (Alaw Ddu; 1838 - 1904), musician eisteddfod of 1877), four requiems, part-songs, anthems, chants, hymn-tunes, together with solos (e.g. ' Y Ffynnon ger fy Mwth'). He died 19 March 1904 and was buried in the burial ground of Capel Newydd, Llanelly.
RHŶS, ELIZABETH (1841 - 1911), teacher, hostess and campaigner for women's rights the Prussia of Otto von Bismark (1815-1898) as 'the Sparta of this age', and offered a 'free translation' of an article from the Neue freie Presse, condemning the imprisonment of the left wing Jewish politician, Johann Jacoby (1805-1877), as 'an act of blatant oppression'. The correspondence displayed the sharpness of her views regarding the great powers of Europe, the conflict between Protestantism
RHYS, Sir JOHN (1840 - 1915), Celtic scholar of Wales. By 1874 he was ready to give a series of lectures at University College, Aberystwyth, which was published in 1877 under the title, Lectures on Welsh Philology (2nd imp., 1879). Although this was his first book, he had already published a number of important articles in the first three volumes of the Revue Celtique on the glosses in the Luxembourg manuscript, on the derivation of words
RICHARDS, ALUN MORGAN (1929 - 2004), screenwriter, playwright, and author Alun Richards was born on 27 October 1929 in Caerphilly, the son of Edward Morgan Richards (1891-1976), a commercial traveller, and his wife Megan (née Jeremy, 1905-1977). His parents were married in London in April 1929. Three days after Alun was born, his father abandoned his mother, and Alun grew up in the home of his maternal grandparents, Thomas (c.1870-1939) and Jessie (1877-1955), in the
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1800 - 1877), Australian journalist (many of his stories have a Welsh background), essays on various subjects, reviews and poems. He had been called ' The Father of the Tasmanian Press.' He died in 1877.
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1754 - 1837), cleric Luxmoore of S. Asaph. He became curate of Rhuddlan, Flintshire, in May 1826; in July 1837 he was instituted as vicar of Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire, and remained there till his death on 20 July 1860. He, too, was buried at Llangynyw. Of the three daughters, MARY (1787 - 1877), Jane (1794 - 1876), and Elizabeth (1797 - 1840), the eldest was a noteworthy personality. In 1821 she was made an honorary member
ROBERTS family Mynydd-y-gof, WILLIAM ROBERTS (1830 - 1899), physician Medicine The eighth of the sons. He went to Mill Hill school and University College, London, graduating in 1851 (M.D., 1854), and afterwards studied in Paris and Berlin; he was elected F.R.S. in 1877 [and knighted in 1885 ]. He settled at Manchester in 1854, was chief physician of the Royal Infirmary there from 1855 till 1883, and was from 1863 till [1873
ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) until 1895. He won prizes for poems at eisteddfodau held at Rhuddlan 1850, Ffestiniog 1854, Llanelly 1856, Ruthin 1857, Rhymney 1859, Caernarvon 1877, Llangurig 1882, but lost to his old schoolmaster, Eben Fardd, on the subject of the 'Battle of Bosworth Field' at the Llangollen eisteddfod of 1858. He adjudicated at the national eisteddfod from c. 1874 onwards. He published Hanes y Cymry, 1853; Awdl y
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. Richard Williams (1802 - 1842), and the grandmother of the antiquary Richard Williams (1835 - 1906). John Roberts's three sons, and his daughter Maria's son John Griffith (1821 - 1877), all separately noticed, round off the tale of this exceptionally interesting family. George Roberts's autobiography, written at intervals (1827, 1835, 1846, and 1850), begins with a very full account of his family and
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH (Gwrtheyrn; 1846 - 1915), littérateur to Cwmtirmynach Calvinistic Methodist chapel, and afterwards at Cefn-ddwysarn, and working in the woollen-factories at both places. But in 1877 he and his wife were appointed master and mistress of the workhouse at Bala; and he remained in that charge until about two years before his death on 20 January 1915. He was a man of many gifts; for one thing a fine singer and a zealous fosterer of music in
ROBERTS, JOHN (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician October 1872. In 1874 he issued Sŵn y Jiwbili, an arrangement in Welsh of Sankey and Moody hymns and tunes. Throughout the years he was well known as music adjudicator and as conductor of singing-festivals; he was also a frequent contributor to Y Traethodydd and Yr Oenig. He died 14 May 1877 and was buried in Caeathro cemetery, near Caernarvon.

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