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PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet Emrys Evans as Principal of Bangor, a man with whom he'd worked 'closely and most amicably' for many years, and one who had shown him much sympathy and help when 'he was a conscientious objector during the war'. No doubt the governors at Bangor didn't want to show him that sympathy. In Aberystwyth he had to reshape the ship after Goronwy Rees's unorthodox captaincy; he had to preside over the
PARRY, WILLIAM (1719 - 1775?), civil servant, secretary of the first Cymmrodorion Society 1755,' as the date of his death, as misprinting ' 1755 ' for 1775. He married late in life (Additional Morris Letters, 773), but was childless. He was secretary of the Cymmrodorion from 1755 (when Daniel Venables, their first secretary, died) until his own death. Parry is praised on all hands for his geniality and generosity. He was especially kind to Goronwy Owen, one of whose best-known cywyddau
PHILIPPS, WOGAN (2nd Baron Milford), (1902 - 1993), politician and artist years. Rosamond Lehmann had a passionate affair with Goronwy Rees and was then involved with the poet, Cecil Day-Lewis. At the end of 1943, Phillips divorced his wife and married, soon afterwards, Cristina, the former wife of the Earl of Huntingdon, daughter of the Marchese di Roma and his eccentric wife Luisa, and who was a Communist and former treasurer of Spanish Medical Aid. Infuriated that his
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters , 3765-7, 5338) - a few diaries, some accounts, medical prescriptions, notes on the family history, copies of letters and of poetry, etc. He was a collector - Bangor has several letters written by Lewis and William Morris which had somehow come into Prichard's hands (and Cardiff MS. 81 contains notes on Lewis Morris by him), and he possessed letters by Goronwy Owen. He was himself a diligent
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales north Wales, in particular Goronwy O. Roberts and Huw T. Edwards. From now on he was the anchor man for the Labour Party in Wales. He prepared a discussion paper based on a memorandum submitted by Huw T. Edwards under the title, 'Democratic Devolution in Wales' and submitted it to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party for further consideration. Through the leadership of James Griffiths
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator Goronwy Rees was born at Rhos (now Pen-y-Geulan), North Road, Aberystwyth, on 29 November 1909, the fourth and last of the surviving children of Richard Jenkin Rees (1868-1963), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and his wife Apphia Mary (née James, 1870-1931). In 1903 the Reverend R. J. Rees, a local man by birth, became minister of Tabernacle, the landmark Calvinist Methodist chapel at Aberystwyth
REES, RICHARD JENKIN (1868 - 1963), minister (Presb.) Movement of the Presbyterian Church of Wales in Cardiff, he worked with diligence and success in that office until 1947. In 1894 he married Apphia Mary James of Pen-y-garn; they had two sons and two daughters: Morgan Goronwy Rees, sometime Principal of University College Aberystwyth, was their second son. After retiring he lived with his children at Pwllheli, and near Oxford, and at Waltham Cross, London
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1710 - 1790), cleric and lexicographer Richard Morris, and his dictionary was mentioned quite often by the three Morris brothers and by Goronwy Owen, although the latter was rather critical of the work. Nevertheless, Richards performed useful service. At long last, Welsh literary men who did not understand Latin were given the opportunity to study Dr. John Davies's grammar, whilst Richards's dictionary gave them the means of understanding
ROBERTS, ELIS (bu farw 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes derogatory remarks made about him by Goronwy Owen (in his letters) are well known; see also Morris Letters, i, 330.
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWAIN (1913 - 1981) - gweler ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician College of Swansea, 1944-45. He broadcast regularly on literary and political subjects. He was elected the Labour MP for Caernarfonshire in the general election of July 1945 when he defeated the sitting Liberal MP Sir Goronwy Owen who had held the seat since 1923. He was re-elected for the Caernarfon division of Caernarfonshire in the general election of February 1950 when he defeated the Liberal
SEFNYN (fl. second half of the 14th century), poet He sang the praises of Tudur ap Goronwy of Trecastell and Penmynydd (died 1367), and an elegiac awdl on his fellow Anglesey poet, Iorwerth ab y Cyriog, who fl. around 1360. He also sang the praises of the wives of his patrons, such as Angharad, ' Dafydd's spouse.' His work has survived only in a confused state in the manuscripts. He was probably the father of the poet Gwilym ap Sefnyn.

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