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PUGH, Sir IDWAL VAUGHAN (1918 - 2010), civil servant, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman) (1976-79) of Coleg Harlech and the Cardiff Business Club, and vice-presidentof the University College of Swansea. The honours he received include: being appointed CB in 1967, knighted in 1972 and being elected Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, in 1979. In 1946 he married Mair Lewis (she died in 1985); they had a son and daughter. He died 21 April 2010.
PUGH, LEWIS HENRY OWAIN (1907 - 1981), soldier Major-General Lewis Pugh, son of Major H.O. Pugh (1874-1954) and his wife Edith Mary née Smith, was born at the family home, Cymerau, Glandyfi, Ceredigion, 18 May 1907. He was educated at Wellington College and Woolwich Royal Military Academy and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1927. After a period with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine he was posted to India where he fulfilled a
PUGH, WILLIAM (1783 - 1842) Bryn-llywarch, Radical landlord and entrepreneur Born at Pennant, Berriw, Montgomeryshire, on 26 December 1783. His father, William Pugh (1748 - 1823) of Pennant (later of Caerhowel, which he bought in 1800), belonged to an old county family which he had enriched by his legal practice, was a pioneer of banking in Newtown, and served as sheriff in 1813; his mother was the daughter of William Lewis of Welshpool. Educated at Rugby (to 1802
teulu PULESTON Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, ,' as he is sometimes described), son of John Puleston ('Hen') by his second wife, Alice, daughter of Hugh Lewis of Presaddfed, was sheriff of Denbighshire, 1543-4. During the latter years of Elizabeth I, two of these Puleston's were presented for recusancy at the Denbighshire Great Sessions : EDWARD PULESTON, of Hafod-y-wern, in 1585, 1588, and 1592, and Anne, wife of JOHN PULESTON, of Berse, in 1587
teulu PUW, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, father in 1585, when Y Drych Cristianogawl was being printed. It is also on record that he was persecuted by Lewis Bayly, bishop of Bangor. As far as is known, he spent his life at Creuddyn. He and his wife were buried in Rhos church. They had twelve children, of whom five were girls. The eldest son, Richard, enlisted in Charles I's army in the Civil War; another fact known about him is that he died in
REES, ABRAHAM (1743 - 1825), encyclopaedist Born in the Old Independent Chapel House, Llanbryn-mair, the son of the Rev. Lewis Rees and Esther Penry. In his article on John Penry in his Cyclopaedia, Rees states: ' The editor of this Cyclopaedia traces his genealogy, by the maternal branch, to the family of Mr. Penry '. He was for a period before 1753 in Pencerrig, Llanelwedd, with John Evans, private tutor of Thomas Jones, the artist (1742
REES, JOHN THOMAS (1857 - 1949), musician the sol-fa notation between 1876 and 1879 under the tuition of D. W. Lewis, Brynaman. At twenty-one he gained some prominence as the composer of a cantata which he submitted for competition at a Treherbert eisteddfod. A modest fund raised by friends enabled him to study with Joseph Parry at Aberystwyth in 1879, but his financial resources were few and the outlook bleak until David Jenkins opened the
REES, LEWIS (1710 - 1800), Independent minister Born 2 March 1710, at Glynllwydrew, Blaen Glyn Nedd, Glamorganshire, son of Rees Edward Lewis, and a grandson to the incumbent of the parish of Penderyn. His father left the Established Church and brought up his son as a Nonconformist. He was educated at the Blaen-gwrach school kept by Henry Davies (1696? - 1766), the minister, and in schools conducted by Joseph Simmons, Swansea, Rees Price, Tyn
REES, RICE (1804 - 1839), cleric and scholar time at home and it was during this period that this interest in Welsh was roused by John Howell, Ioan Glan Dyfroedd, who was headmaster of the British school in the town. He then went to his uncle, W. J. Rees, at Cascob to be prepared for Oxford; he was admitted to Jesus College in 1822, graduated in 1826 (B.D. 1837), and in 1828 was elected a Fellow of his college. Llewellyn Lewellin was his tutor
REES, THOMAS (1869 - 1926), principal of Bala-Bangor Independent College Ebenezer chapel, Trecynon, where he began to preach, 19 October 1890. He had, by this time, started to attend Whitland school, which was then kept by the Rev. Lewis Evans, and when the latter gave it up Rees went to the Old College School at Carmarthen, which was kept by Evan Jones. In June 1891 he was admitted at the top of the list to the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and the following year passed
REES, WILLIAM (1808 - 1873), printer and publisher , too, that the publications of the Welsh MSS. Society, 1836, were issued, among which may be mentioned Lewis Dwnn's Heraldic Visitations, 1846; Llyfr Llandaf, 1850; Iolo MSS., 1852; Lives of the Cambro-British Saints, 1853; Dosparth Edeyrn Davod Aur, 1856; Meddygon Myddfai, 1856; and Barddas, 1862. Among a host of other books published by the Llandovery press we need only mention Robert Williams's
RHISIERDYN (fl. latter half of the 14th century) Gwynedd, poet His canon has not been fixed, and there are textual confusions. In the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vol. i, part 2, 123-33, Dr. Henry Lewis published a study of the poems attributed to him in the R. B. H. Poetry and in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales Rhisierdyn sang panegyric awdlau to Gronwy (Fychan) ap Tudur (died 1382; see Ednyfed Fychan) and to Myfanwy his wife, and an elegiac

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