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PUGH, WILLIAM JOHN (1892 - 1974), Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain appointing two lecturers to help him with teaching, he conducted field studies to map the chronostratigraphy in the ancient Ordovician-Silurian rocks of Corris and Bala district. His results were striking and in advance of their time, refuting the conclusions made for some of the districts by earlier investigators. He gained a DSc degree of the University of Wales in 1928 for work done in the districts of
teulu PULESTON Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, . At the height of the rising the hated sheriff was seized and hanged by the Anglesey Welshmen during a sudden raid on the borough of Caernarvon. In all probability Master Richard de Puleston, who was sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1284-95 (he was appointed on the same day as Sir Roger), was of the same family, although the pedigrees do not help to establish his exact identity. ROBERT PULESTON, son of
teulu PUW, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, Five of its members will be noticed: ROBERT PUW (died c. 1629), Roman Catholic recusant Religion Second son of Huw ap Reinallt ab Ieuan of Penrhyn Creuddyn, Caernarfonshire. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley. His grandson, Gwilym Puw (below), states that he was educated at Oxford. He entered the Middle Temple, 30 November 1567 (Register of Admissions to the Middle Temple, I, 32
PUW, ROBERT (1609 - 1679), author - gweler PUW
RAFF ap ROBERT (fl. 1550) Cilgwyn, Bachymbyd, 'a free holder of Dyffryn Clwyd' and a non-professional poet
RANDALL, HENRY JOHN (1877 - 1964), lawyer and historian in 1960. He was notable not only in his profession but was a man of very wide interests, especially in the field of local history in the Vale of Glamorgan, where he lived all his life. He was a member of the Camb. Arch. Assocn., becoming its president in 1928 and was honorary treasurer 1936-51; a member of the Board of Celtic Studies for 22 years and of the Ancient Monuments Board for Wales until
RANKIN, SUSANNAH JANE (1897 - 1989), minister (Cong.) and missionary in Papua taken place. The same year, she married the Reverend Robert Rankin and they continued the work together for 26 years establishing new churches and ministering to thousands. In 1957, when the Chalmers Memorial Theological College was opened, the husband and wife missionaries were appointed Principal and Professor at the new College, even though it was four to five hundred miles west of Saroa where they
teulu RAVENSCROFT Ravenscroft, Robert Davies of Gwysaney, and three of his sons must be recorded: (1) THOMAS RAVENSCROFT, the eldest son, sheriff Public and Social Service, Civil Administration in 1606-7, died in 1630. Two of his sons were ROBERT RAVENSCROFT (1589 - 1640; Member of Parliament in 1614) and THOMAS RAVENSCROFT, originator of the separate line of ' Ravenscroft of Pickhill ' in Denbighshire (but near Bangor-on-Dee - see
RECORDE, ROBERT (bu farw 1558)
RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1512 - 1558), mathematician and physician Robert Recorde was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the second of two sons of Thomas Recorde of Tenby and Ros Johns, daughter of Thomas ap John ap Sion, of Machynlleth. This was a second marriage for Thomas, the first to Joan Ysteven of Tenby being of short duration and childless. Thomas Recorde inherited a mercantile business founded in the town by the boys' paternal grandfather Roger Recorde. It
REES, MERLYN (1920 - 2006), politician , attending the London School of Economics, where he studied history and economics under Prof. Harold Laski, before returning to Harrow Weald School to run the sixth form from 1949 to 1960. He also completed a master's degree in 1955. In 1949 he married Colleen Cleveley (b. 1927). They had three sons, Patrick Merlyn (b. 1954), Gareth David (b. 1956) and Glyn Robert (b. 1960). During the 1950s, Rees became
REES, ROBERT (Eos Morlais; 1841 - 1892), vocalist and musician

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