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REES, THOMAS WYNFORD (Dagger; 1898 - 1959), major-general East battles, he was acclaimed Captor of Mandalay in the Burma war. He was usually known as General ' Dagger ' Rees and, to his troops, ' Pocket Napoleon ' because of his diminutive height of 5 feet 5 inches, and ' Pete ' because he was always with his men in the front line. He took his nickname, ' Dagger ' from the symbol of his beloved Indian Division. He served in World War 1 (mentioned in
REES, WILLIAM THOMAS (Alaw Ddu; 1838 - 1904), musician , Carmarthenshire, where he was made precentor at Trinity C.M. chapel. He founded a Philharmonic Society at Llanelly; he also conducted singing festivals and adjudicated at eisteddfodau in many parts of Wales. He edited Y Gerddorfa, 1872-9, Yr Ysgol Gerddorol, 1878-9, Cyfaill yr Aelwyd, 1880-1 (with J. Ossian Davies), Cerddor y Cymry, 1883-94, wrote (with J. Owen, Criccieth) a biography of John Roberts (Ieuan
REES-DAVIES, IEUAN (1894 - 1967), musician and author fawr ' and ' A nocturne on Tylacoch '. That same year, with the bardic name ' Ieuan ', he became a member of the Gorsedd of bards during the national eisteddfod at Treorchy. He married (1) Jean Macdonald Fitchet (died 1938); (2) Barbara Lacey. Towards the end of his life he lived at Kingston-upon-Thames. He died 28 November 1967.
REYNOLDS, JONATHAN OWAIN (Nathan Dyfed; 1814 - 1891), author . 1, now NLW MS 970E), a 17th century collection of Welsh poems in the hand of Llywelyn Siôn, Llangewydd; they are described in J. Gwenogvryn Evans's Reports on MSS. in the Welsh Language, II, i, 372-94. Besides the above volume, twenty-seven other volumes belonging to Llywarch Reynolds and his father came to N.L.W. in 1916; see N.L.W. Handlist of MSS. i, 77-9 (these should be studied side by side
RHISIERDYN (fl. latter half of the 14th century) Gwynedd, poet awdl to Sir Hywel y Fwyall. The awdl to the abbot of Aberconwy which The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales attributes to Casnodyn is given in NLW MS 4973B 260b to Rhisierdyn, and Peniarth MS 118 (140) attributes to Rhisierdyn the pious ode 'y Duw uchaf y Kyfarchaf …' which is ascribed in R. B. H. Poetry (col. 1251) to Bleddyn Ddu. Many manuscripts (e.g. Bodl. 1 and 2, Peniarth MS 90 and Peniarth MS 100
RHOBERT AP DAFYDD LLWYD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet who was, according to Swansea MS. 1 (277, 357), a native of Crymlyn (Cremlyn) in Anglesey. No details are known concerning his life, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript. They include a religious poem, a satire to a fox which had killed the poet's lambs, and also poems addressed to Simon Thelwall of Plas y Ward (see the article on that family) and his third wife (Margaret, daughter of
RHYS ap THOMAS Sir (1449 - 1525), chief Welsh supporter of Henry VII . His later years he spent at Carew castle which the owner had mortgaged to him. It was there that he held a great tournament to celebrate his admission to the Order of the Garter and to which he invited representatives of the leading families from all parts of Wales. He also made extensive alterations to the castle, building the gate-house and inserting windows. Sir Rhys ap Thomas married (1) Eva
RHYS BRYCHAN (fl. c. 1500), poet 6511B (37, 129), NLW MS 13072B (177, 179); Peniarth MS 55 (3, 21, 97, 131, 153, 185), Peniarth MS 60 (87), Peniarth MS 83 (67), Peniarth MS 96 (51), Peniarth MS 100 (84, 87); Llanstephan MS 133 (28, 29, 728), Llanstephan MS 134 (143, 153, 300); Gwysaney MS. 38 (24, 27, 61); Wynnstay MS. 1 (59, 60); Hafod MS. 20 (126, 234); 'Llyfr Hir Llanharan' Cardiff MS 5.44. (98, 101, 209).
RHŶS, ELIZABETH (1841 - 1911), teacher, hostess and campaigner for women's rights and Rhŷs were married at Llanberis Parish Church. They settled in Rhyl, where Rhŷs was based as Her Majesty's Inspector for Flintshire and Denbighshire schools. Their first child, Gwladus, was born in May 1873, but died at Llanberis on 10 June 1874, before the birth of the second child, Myvanwy, on 1 August 1874, and a third daughter, Olwen, on 4 March 1876. When Rhŷs was appointed the first
RHYS, HYWEL (1715? - 1799), poet and Catherine Morgan recorded in Vaynor parish register on 1 January 1741/2. Four poems - ' Cân y Daear Fochyn,' ' Can yn cynnwys achwyniad y bardd am gydmares,' ' Can yr Hwsmon,' ' Can a gyfansoddwyd yn amser yr hynod ormeswr Morgan Siencyn Dafydd,' are attributed to him. The date of his death is given variously as June 1799 and July 1802. Vaynor parish register records the burial of a Howel Rees
RHYS, Sir JOHN (1840 - 1915), Celtic scholar Continent, in Paris and Heidelberg, and in 1870-1, in Leipzig and Göttingen. He studied under Curtius and others and was anxious to go in for philological research. In 1871, however, he left Germany and returned to Wales as inspector of schools for Flint and Denbigh. In this connection his travels gave him the opportunity, which he seized, of studying ancient inscriptions on memorial stones in every part
RHYS, MORGAN (1716 - 1779), circulating schoolmaster, and hymn-writer Born 1 April 1716 at Efail-fach, Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire, son of Rhys and Anne Lewis. Little is known about his early days. He worked as a circulating schoolmaster in various places in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire between 1757 and 1775, and references to his industry as a teacher are found in Welch Piety. In 1770 he was called by his contemporaries 'a Methodistical preacher,' and his will

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