Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RHŶS, ELIZABETH (1841 - 1911), teacher, hostess and campaigner for women's rights influential in Oxford as a teacher and then as a college head, Elspeth suffered frequent bouts of ill health. Her death on 29 April 1911 was quite unexpected, nonetheless. She was remembered with admiration among those who knew her in Oxford as well as neighbours from her youth in Llanberis, with Alice Gray Jones, the editor of Y Gymraes, fondly reminiscing that 'Miss Hughes Davies was the ideal of every
RICHARD ap JOHN (fl. 1578-1611) Scorlegan, Llangynhafal, gentleman, poet, patron of bards, and copyist Edward of Plas y Bold, appear to have returned to Scorlegan. The grandfather, Robert ap Griffith, died in 1572 (elegy by Simwnt Vychan) and was succeeded at Scorlegan by Richard ap John. He married Alice, daughter of Richard Thelwall of Plas-y-ward, who died at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568. She died 25 November 1584, leaving nine children, Robert Wyn, Edward, John Wyn, Thomas, John Lloyd, Simon
ROBERTS, EDWARD STANTON (1878 - 1938), schoolteacher and scholar Cemetery. In 1919 he married Annie, daughter of Robert and Alice Roberts, Cefn Post, Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr. They had three children. Stanton Roberts was a good scholar and, according to some, one of the best palaeographers in Wales at the time. He was also a poet and writer of englynion (strict-metre quatrains). A very close friend of his, from Aberystwyth days, was poet Thomas Gwynn Jones who bore
ROBERTS, MICHAEL (d. 1679), principal of Jesus College, Oxford son of Evan Roberts and Alice his wife, of Llanffinan parish in Anglesey; the date of his birth is uncertain. He spent some time at Caius College, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1620, M.A. in 1623; he was incorporated at Oxford and Cambridge, both in 1624. He became Fellow of Jesus in Oxford in 1625 - there he remained till 1638, when he lost his place because
ROWLANDS, ROBERT PUGH (1874 - 1933), chief surgeon of Guy's Hospital married Alice Maude, the daughter of Edward Piper, Bodiam Manor, Sussex in 1905 and they had two children. He died on 6 December 1933 after a short illness.
RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist Vicki Baum, and especially Alice Williams ('Alys Meirion'), who came from a similar minor Merioneth gentry background, and whom she saw regularly in London at the women's Forum Club. Although she would never have called herself a nationalist, Berta Ruck was proud of her Welsh identity. She was not as fluent in Welsh as in German and French, but could understand and read it and conduct simple
SCUDAMORE family lordship of Abergavenny by the marriage of Sir ALAN SCUDAMORE with the daughter and sole heiress of the lord of Troy, not far from Monmouth. Four generations later Sir Alan's great-grandson married ALICE, one of the daughters of Owain Glyn Dwr. Sir JOHN SCUDAMORE I, Owain's son-in-law, was at the outset of the rebellion in royal service, and in 1403 was actually the custodian on the king's behalf of
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet published, at his own expense, about a dozen to twenty musical compositions. He was the General Secretary of the national eisteddfod of Pontypool in 1924, and General Secretary of the first musical festival held in Llandudno, in October 1945, and many times afterwards. He was a member of the Gorsedd, under the bardic name, 'Robin Eryri'. He was married twice: (1) to Alice Noel Jones, daughter of a sea
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, JOHN THELWALL from whom the family is descended, settled in the Ruthin district with Reginald de Grey, about 1380. His son, also named JOHN, married Ffelis, daughter and heiress of John ap Rhys Fychan by Alice, daughter and heiress of Walter Cooke or Ward, of Plas y Ward; and thus were the Thelwall family first associated with this historic house. Little of note is known of the family's fortune
THOMAS, JOSEPH MORGAN (1868 - 1955), minister (U) and Free Catholic, councillor and public figure religion and propagating Unitarian concepts, being one of the three who instituted the Unitarian cause at Pontypridd in 1892, where he served as its first secretary. He decided to enter the ministry and attended a course for that purpose at Manchester College (Unitarian), Oxford (1894-98); he received a call to Liscard Memorial Church (Free Christian), Chester, in 1898. He married in 1899, Alice
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman acquired a portrait of Lady Rhondda by Alice Burton and another is on show at the National History Museum, St Fagans. She is now the subject of a website, an animated film and television programmes in Welsh and English and represented on the plinth of Gillian Wearing's statue of Dame Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square. In 2019 she was selected as one of five historical women to be memorialised in
TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (d. c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (1st creation) married Ann Devereux, the niece of Simon Milborne's mother, Elizabeth Devereux. Simon arranged marriages for his daughters with all the important local gentry. His eldest daughter, Alice, married Henry Myles of Bacton, the parents of Blanche Parry, Queen Elizabeth I's confidante. Blanche Milborne first married James Whitney of Whitney and Pen-cwm; her dowry was

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