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RHYS, HYWEL (1715? - 1799), poet He is probably the Howell, son of Howell Rees, who was christened at Vaynor, 10 September 1715. He began life as a farmer on a tenement called Blaen-y-glais in Vaynor parish, but is said to have been deprived of his farm and subsequently to have rented a public house called Pantydŵr, at Garn, Pontsticill, Brecknock. His wife's name was Catherine, and the marriage may be that between Howell Rice
RHYS, MORGAN (1716 - 1779), circulating schoolmaster, and hymn-writer , Carmarthen, 1775). He also published a number of elegies: Marw-Nad: … Lewis Lewis … Llanddeiniol (which includes some hymns), 1764; Marwnad … rhai o Weinidogion ffyddlon yr Efengyl (Howell Davies, William Richard, and Siôn Parry), 1770; and Hanes Byr o Fywyd … Morgan Nathan, yn Llandilo-fawr (including hymns by Morgan Rhys and M. Nathan), 1775. His hymns are characterized by profound spiritual experience
RICHARD ap JOHN (fl. 1578-1611) Scorlegan, Llangynhafal, gentleman, poet, patron of bards, and copyist He traced his pedigree through Edwin ap Grono to Hywel Dda and Rhodri Mawr. His father, John Wyn ap Robert ap Griffith, was a waiter in the queen's ewry, but he died of the plague before the children, Richard, John Wyn, and Catherine, had reached their majority. Lewis ab Edward and Gruffudd Hiraethog wrote elegies on his death. The children and their mother, Margaret, daughter of Griffith ab
RICHARD, EDWARD (1714 - 1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet 1736 he returned to Ystradmeurig, where he opened a school which became famous, turning out a number of pupils who subsequently played an important part in many spheres. He died 4 March 1777. Edward Richard showed his first pastoral to Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Lewis Morris, and Richard Morris, and it was first published in the 1767 Almanac of Gwilym Howel. In 1776 there was published in Shrewsbury, by J
teulu RICHARDS Coed, Caerynwch, Edwards of Cerrigllwydion, Llanynys, Denbighshire. The Edwards family was intimately connected with the families of Evans of Tanybwlch, Price of Corsygarnedd, Lloyd of Brithdir, and Edwards of Dolserau, all in Merioneth (see N.L.W. schedule of the Caerynwch and allied documents). When Lewis Dwnn (Heraldic Visitations, ii, 235) visited Caerynwch in 1588 the pedigree of the family was supplied to the
RICHARDS, GRAFTON MELVILLE (1910 - 1973), Welsh scholar nurtured by Henry Lewis and he revealed his ability very early in his career. His first area of research was the syntax of the sentence in Medieval Welsh and he published his work in a series of articles in academic journals. He served in the army, mainly in intelligence, between 1939 and 1945, the experience which he used in his only novel, Y gelyn mewnol (1946), an espionage story set in west Wales. He
RICHARDS, LEWIS (1799 - 1860), vicar - gweler RICHARDS, THOMAS
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1754 - 1837), cleric appointed vicar of Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire. He served there till his death on 28 March 1854, and was buried at Llangynyw. He took a great interest in agriculture. LEWIS RICHARDS (1799 - 1860) The fifth son, was born 31 December 1799. He went to Jesus College, Oxford, and took his B.A. in June 1824. He was ordained deacon the same month by bishop Pelham of Lincoln, and priest in January 1825 by bishop
RICHARDSON, EVAN (1759 - 1824), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster Born in 1759 at Bryngwyn-bach, Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire, son of a mason named Rhisiart Morys Huw - Richardson himself is often styled 'Richards', not only in popular parlance but in Thomas Charles's letters and in contemporary Calvinistic Methodist records. Lewis Edwards on one occasion claimed to be a 'nephew' (qu. cousin-german) of Richardson 's. He was destined for holy orders
ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c. 1527 - 1598), priest, grammarian and poet as a literary critic. His grammar is one of the most important Welsh works of the Renaissance, and it is also significant in the history of Welsh prose. Saunders Lewis considered that Gruffydd Robert is the first Welsh master, and the greatest, of the distinctive style of the Renaissance, the Ciceronian style. It was Gruffydd Robert who prepared the Athravaeth Gristnogavl for its publication, also
ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c.1522 - c.1610), priest, grammarian, and poet a divinity canon in the cathedral. There are references to him in the cardinal's biography and details are given in letters written by his friend, Owen Lewis, now in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, of the duties which he performed. About November 1582 Borromeo wanted him to relinquish his position as divinity canon because he could not speak Italian sufficiently fluently. We do not know what
ROBERTS, DAVID (Telynor Mawddwy; 1875 - 1956), harpist, singer and author of handbooks on penillion singing of the settings were crude and lacking in imagination, and with the assistance of the Rev. P.H. Lewis, he revised them for the second edition (1915). These are far more accurate and musically imaginative. Again with P.H. Lewis, he published another important aid for harpists and singers, namely Cainc y delyn (1916), a handbook of airs presented in old notation for the harp, with words set to them

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