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REES, BRINLEY RODERICK (1919 - 2004), classical scholar, educationist and university college principal , became increasingly recognized, and, in 1975, he returned again to Wales on appointment as principal of St David's College, Lampeter, the first layman to hold the post. As Dean of Arts in Cardiff he had been involved in the process which saw Lampeter admitted as a 'school' within the University of Wales (a federation of which he was often critical). Now principal, he fought hard to have Lampeter fully
REES, DAVID (1918 - 2013), mathematician and commutative algebra. In 1954 he produced a highly influential paper with Douglas Northcott on the concepts of reductions and integral closure. Several concepts and theories now carry his name, such as the 'Rees matrix semigroup', the 'Rees Valuation Theorem' and others. From 1958 until his retirement in 1983 he was Professor of Pure Mathemetics and Head of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
REES, JOSIAH (1744 - 1804), Unitarian minister on the list of the committee of the South Wales Unitarian Association, dated 8 October 1802, and he was the preacher at that Association's first public assembly, at Cefn-coed-cymer, 26 June 1803. It was under the Association's auspices that he published in 1804 the tract (of which no copy is now known to have survived) which provoked in the same year the reply by Joseph Harris (Gomer), Bwyall Crist
REES, LEIGHTON THOMAS (1940 - 2003), world champion darts player that the World Championship Darts Competition had been arranged. He was presented with a cheque for £3000 and he was honoured in his home village when a street in Ynys-y-bŵl was called Leighton Rees Close. By now he was an attraction, and he travelled extensively all over the world. He would spend three months every year competing in the United States, concentrating on the states of Florida, Arizona
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, ROBERT (Eos Morlais; 1841 - 1892), vocalist and musician worked at Landore and became precentor at Soar Congregational chapel, Swansea. He took a course of instruction at the Swansea Training College. So successful had he become by now that he gave up his occupation and devoted his whole time to music. He served for three years as precentor of Walter Road Congregational church, Swansea. He conducted singing festivals and served as adjudicator, his services
REUBEN, BERNICE RUTH (1923 - 2004), novelist the land was mine. But now I am made to feel a foreigner…'. She was made a fellow of University College, Cardiff in 1982, and was awarded an honorary DLitt by the University of Wales in 1991. Two of her novels were awarded prizes by the Welsh Arts Council, but nevertheless she has been rather neglected by Wales's literary establishment, perhaps partly because of her own ambiguous attitude towards
REYNOLDS, JOHN (fl. 1739), antiquary the latter. In 1736 he published Heraldry Displayed, a second edition of A Display of Herauldry by Davies, published in 1716. In 1739 he published The Scripture Genealogy. Beginning at Noah and To which is added the Genealogy of the Caesars and Also, a Display of Herauldry of the particular Coat of Armours now in use in the Six Counties of North Wales etc. This book, which has no great merit, is
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
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron Llywelyn Goch ap Llywelyn Gaplan. Lywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen also composed a praise poem to the two friends. In his description of a poetic circuit of Wales, Iolo Goch recommends 'greeting Rhydderch the giver / son of Ieuan Llwyd', and one suspects Iolo must have written additional poems, now lost, to such an important patron. Dafydd y Coed's praise poem to Rhydderch in The Red Book of Hergest compares
RHYS NANMOR (fl. 1480-1513), poet
RICHARDS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1818), General Baptist minister, theological and political controversialist, and antiquary . Before and after the West Wales Baptist schism of 1799, Richards rushed into the fray, against Calvinism and against the 'Methodistical' and revivalistic tendencies of the Particular Baptist leaders. He poured forth a series of 'Occasional Leaflets' (Papurynnau Achlysurol); these are now very scarce. His chief opponents were Evan Jones (1777 - 1819) of Cardigan and Joseph Harris (Gomer); the pamphlets

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