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REES, THOMAS (1815 - 1885), Independent minister, and historian Born 13 December 1815 at Penpontbren, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, son of Thomas Rees and his wife Hannah (Williams), but reared by his mother and her family, on the holding of Banc-y-fer, Llangathen. He had only three months' schooling, and was of little use on the farm - 'slow, clumsy, and lazy,' so it was said; yet he was good at basket-making. He became a member of Capel Isaac church, and in
REES, THOMAS (1869 - 1926), principal of Bala-Bangor Independent College Born 30 May 1869 at Dolaeron, Llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire. His parents were not married and he was brought up by Benni and Mattie Rees of Waunfelen, Crymych, who, being Independents, entrusted his religious teaching to Antioch chapel, although his mother's family were staunch Baptists. Until he was 10 years of age he attended Bethel day school at Mynachlog-ddu, but later, when the family moved
REES, THOMAS (1862 - 1951), breeder of Welsh cobs Born 31 January 1862 one of the 10 children, 3 girls and 7 boys, of James Rees and Mary, his wife, who lived at Sarnicol, the cottage in Capel Cynon, Cardiganshire, in which Thomas Jacob Thomas was born in 1873. The Rees family moved to Dolau Llethi, Llannarth where Thomas at the age of 8 was a shepherd in summer, working for a time alongside Evan Pan Jones, and attended school at Talgarreg in
REES, THOMAS IFOR (1890 - 1977), HM Ambassador family happened to be living at the time. In the early years, their aunt, Miss Margaret Phillips, was responsible for this. Later they were sent to boarding schools in Dolgellau and then to various universities. In 1921 Thomas Ifor Rees was transferred as Consul and then Chargé d'Affaires to Managua, Nicaragua, Central America where two of his children were born. In 1925 he was made Consul-General in
REES, WILLIAM (1808 - 1873), printer and publisher Born 8 July 1808 at Ton near Llandovery - for his family see the article Rees of Ton. He learned the printer's trade at Hereford, but in 1829 he and his uncle, D. R. Rees, set up a press at Llandovery; D. R. Rees gave it up in 1835 but William Rees continued the work and this press became one of the most celebrated in Wales and probably the best of all in respect of craftsmanship. It was here
REES, WILLIAM JENKINS (1772 - 1855), cleric and antiquary Born 10 January 1772 at Llandovery; for his family, see the article Rees of Tonn. He went to Carmarthen grammar school (1789) and afterwards (12 April 1791) to Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1795. He was ordained in 1796 and held the curacies of Stoke Edith and West Hide, Herefordshire until 1806, when he was given the living of Cascob, Radnorshire. From 1806 he was also vicar of
REES, WILLIAM THOMAS (Alaw Ddu; 1838 - 1904), musician Born 29 September 1838 in the village of Pwll-y-glaw, near Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Glamorganshire, the son of Thomas and Mary Rees, natives of Laleston, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire. The family moved to Aberdare in 1851 where, after the death of his father, the son began to work, when still young, in a coal-mine. He came under the influence of John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) and other musicians who lived
REUBEN, BERNICE RUTH (1923 - 2004), novelist Bernice Rubens was born on 26 July 1923 at 9 Glossop Terrace, Splott, Cardiff, the third of four children of Eli Harold Reuben and his wife Dorothy (née Cohen). Her father was an Orthodox Jewish from Latvia who had fled pogroms in 1900, via Hamburg believing he was on his way to America. He had been swindled and his ticket took him only to Cardiff. There he met his future wife whose family had
RHISIART FYNGLWYD (fl. 1510-1570), poet members of the Dwnn family, particularly to Gruffudd Dwnn of Ystrad Merthyr, and Harry, his son. Rhisiart Fynglwyd was feasting at Ystrad Merthyr at Whitsuntide 1531 and 1533, and on S. Davids Day 1536 and 1537, and was in Sir George Herbert's home in Swansea about 1543. Professor G. J. Williams suggests that perhaps his most interesting poem is his cywydd of intercession between Sir George Herbert and
RHOBERT AP DAFYDD LLWYD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet who was, according to Swansea MS. 1 (277, 357), a native of Crymlyn (Cremlyn) in Anglesey. No details are known concerning his life, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript. They include a religious poem, a satire to a fox which had killed the poet's lambs, and also poems addressed to Simon Thelwall of Plas y Ward (see the article on that family) and his third wife (Margaret, daughter of
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron Rhydderch was the son of Ieuan Llwyd ab Ieuan ap Gruffudd Foel of Glyn Aeron, near Llangeitho, and Angharad Hael, daughter of Richard ab Einion of Buellt (Builth). His family were descended from the royal line of Ceredigion and, through his paternal grandmother and her mother, from Rhys ap Gruffydd (died 1197), Lord of Deheubarth and chief patron of Strata Florida Abbey. The family had long been
RHYGYFARCH (1056/7 - 1099) He was the eldest of the four sons of the learned Sulien, his father being a native of Llanbadarn-fawr and twice bishop of S. Davids. Apart from the fact of his belonging to a clerical family of good birth, little if anything is known about his life. His only teacher, it is said, was his father. Very probably he was a priest at S. Davids (not bishop, as Annales Cambriae, MS. C, states). Among his

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