Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, ROBERT (Eos Morlais; 1841 - 1892), vocalist and musician Born 5 April (Whit-Sunday) 1841, at Dowlais, Glamorganshire, the son of Hugh and Margaret Rees, and brought up near the banks of the river Morlais - hence his pseudonym. He lost his father when he was 8 years old, and he started to work in a coal-mine when he was only 9. As a child he showed a marked talent for singing and recitation. His first lessons in music were given him by an uncle; these
SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician objectors' tribunal for some years. He was exceptionally competent and courageous, and had a great gift of friendship with people in all walks of life. His wife died in Swansea, 19 August 1939, and he married (2) in Llandrindod Wells, 24 April 1941, Lady Annie Gwladys, widow of Sir Henry Gregg and daughter of David Morlais Samuel, Swansea. As ' Morlaisa ' she was a member of the Gorsedd. He died 5 April
HUWS, RHYS JONES (1862 - 1917), Independent minister Born 13 June 1862 at Tal-y-wern Fach, Penegoes, near Machynlleth. His father was the superintendent of the lead-washings at the Dyfngwm and Dylife works; his mother hailed from the line of Eos Morlais (Robert Rees). The family went to live at Llechwedd-du, Dylife, and it was there, in the National school, that he received his early education. When he was about thirteen he embarked on his career
HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren and advice of their father, and with another brother, THOMAS, as a partner in the undertaking, they erected their furnace and other necessary works at Penydarren, on the banks of the Morlais brook. They turned out from their works, over many years, manufactured iron in large quantities, and of the best quality. A mansion called Penydarren House was built on high ground on the opposite bank of the
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff graduated B.A. in 1898 with first-class honours in Hebrew, M.A. (1900) and B.D. (1916). In 1899 he was ordained minister of High Street (B) Church, Merthyr Tydfil. In January 1904 he was appointed part-time lecturer in Church History at the Baptist College, Cardiff; and full-time professor and financial secretary in 1908. He became acting principal on the death of John Morlais Davies in April 1928, but
POWELL, ANNIE (1906 - 1986), teacher, local politician and Communist mayor of Rhondda international conference in Moscow. For the 40 years Annie was a teacher, she was active in the National Union of Teachers. Deeply involved in community organisations, she was vice-president of Morlais Male Voice Choir; awarded an honorary MA by the Open University for her support of students; and made an honorary Alderman of Rhondda on retiring from the council. Through it all, she was supported in a long
HILL family, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil construction of a tram road for their joint use, from their works to join the Glamorganshire canal at Navigation (now Abercynon). In the same year, 1803, Richard Hill I, who was a practical engineer, agreed to construct a tram road for the joint use of the same three companies to convey limestone from the Morlais Castle quarries. It will thus be seen that Richard Hill was on very good terms with the
CLARE family and his neighbour Humphrey Bohun VII (c. 1250-98), lord of Brecknock (on the Bohuns, see D.N.B. and William Rees, ' The Mediaeval Lordship of Brecon ' in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1915-16), because Gilbert had built a castle on their common boundary - on Brecknock land, so Bohun maintained; the castle was Morlais near Merthyr Tydfil (confused by some with Morgraig
EOS MORLAIS - see REES, ROBERT

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