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teulu PUW, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, studying civil and ecclesiastical law. His brother, Gwilym, says that he was acquainted with several languages and mentions Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, French, German, English, and Welsh. In 1655 the Pope appointed him ' protonotarius publicus apostolicus.' He was tutor to Henry, duke of Gloucester, and chaplain to queen Henrietta Maria. After the restoration of the Stuarts he made his home
QUARRELL, JAMES (fl. 1650-1672), Puritan preacher, Independent cast into prison at Welshpool; under the Five Mile Act he had to find a new home, and chose Shrewsbury. There, in 1671, he gave somewhat unheroic advice to Henry Maurice in his days of crisis, and there, on 22 May 1672, he received a licence to preach under the new Indulgence in one of the rooms of the King's Head.
QUARRELL, THOMAS (bu farw 1709), Puritan preacher, free-communion Baptist laws by preaching in secret conventicles at Eglwysilan, Llanedern, Marshfield, and Bedwas. In 1670 he (and two others) received a letter from Vavasor Powell a little before his death enclosing a small gift of money. In 1672, on 25 July, he received a licence to preach in the house of John Maurice at Shirenewton; in 1675 Henry Maurice assigns an important place to Quarrell amongst the Dissenters of
QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY WYNDHAM - gweler WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY
RANDALL, HENRY JOHN (1877 - 1964), lawyer and historian
RATHBONE, WILLIAM (1819 - 1902), philanthropist nationalism of his fellow-members for Wales. He took a leading part in the inception of the University College of North Wales (1884); it is true that he felt at first that Aberystwyth College should have been recognized as the college for North Wales, but as soon as Bangor was fixed upon, it was Rathbone who asked Sir Henry Jones to draft its charter (pp. 350-5 of the biography), and he contributed and
teulu RAVENSCROFT Ravenscroft, The original line is represented in the 17th century by a family named Croxton. A younger branch appears in Wales for the first time in the 14th cent.; the present notice need begin only with HUGH DE RAVENSCROFT, who was steward of Hope and Hawarden and Mold in the middle of the 15th cent., and married Isabella Holland of Bretton in Hawarden parish. Passing over his son Henry (died 1486) and his
RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1512 - 1558), mathematician and physician over some eleven editions, the last appearing in 1679 under the revised title The Judgement of Urines. Despite popular legend, Recorde was never physician to either Edward VI or Mary I, the confusion probably arising because he dedicated books to both these monarchs. Shortly after Recorde arrived in London, the antiquarian John Leland (c.1503-1552) related to him a curious story. Entrusted by Henry
REES, DAVID (1918 - 2013), mathematician David Rees was born on 29 May 1918 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, the fourth of five children of David Rees, a corn merchant (b. 1881), and his wife Florence Gertrude (née Powell, 1884-1970). He was educated in the local Henry VIII Grammar School and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in mathematics. In 1939 he began postgraduate studies at Cambridge on
REES, HENRY (1798 - 1869), most famous minister among the Calvinistic Methodists in his day Thomas Charles's house - this was the only occasion on which these three great leaders of Calvinistic Methodism met. Henry Rees started to preach about the end of 1818. He gave evidence of remarkable powers in the pulpit - listening to him caused John Jones, Tal-y-sarn, to give himself to the ministry. He was at school under T. Lloyd, Abergele, 1819-21. He was licensed as preacher, 1820. In 1821 he
REES, HENRY (1837 - 1908), minister - gweler REES, WILLIAM
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

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