Davies suggests that the texts of Welsh law, traditionally codified by Hywel Dda at Whitland, were first assembled in book form under the aegis of Rhys.

Davies provides the following assessment of Rhys:

An early work of the first wave of Anglo-Welsh writers was The Withered Root ( 1927 ) by Rhys Davies ( 1901 – 78 ) from the Rhondda Valley.

While he probably wrote more fiction about the industrial world of the South Wales Valleys than anyone else, Rhys Davies was in fact a grocer's son who was living in London by the time he was twenty.

Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Wales, the son of Welsh parents Mary Margaretta Phyllis Jones, a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer.

* Aled Davies: Rhys Llywelyn

The ILP criticised the " Continental " method of paying wage allowances from employers ' pools, which had been implemented in 1924 by Rhys Davies.

* Many actors in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, notably John Rhys Davies and various actors / stuntmen portraying orcs.

* Rhys Davies ( European Tour Golfer )

Many of her works were published posthumously, some edited by her friend, Rhys Davies.

In eighteen months The Mandrake Press published over 30 items, including D. H. Lawrence, The Paintings of D H Lawrence together with works by Liam O ' Flaherty, Rhys Davies, Giovanni Boccaccio, Peter Warlock under the pseudonym Rab Noolas, S. S. Koteliansky, Aleister Crowley, Thomas Burke, Cecil Roth, Beresford Egan, W. J. Turner, Brinsley MacNamara, Edgell Rickword, Richard Middleton, V. V. Rozanov, Philip Owens, Vernon Knowles, and others.

In recent years, Ron Davies, Rowan Williams, Matthew Rhys, Ioan Gruffudd and Rebecca Evans have been honoured in this way.

* Rhys Davies ( 9 November 1901 – 21 August 1978 ) ( born Vivian Rees Davies ) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer, who wrote in the English language.

Rhys Davies European Tour golfer, Aaron Schoenfeld Columbus Crew, MLS soccer.

in April 2010, featuring Leanne Jones, Ashley Campbell and Adam Rhys Davies.

Also Paul Bowles, Bob Brown, Kathleen Cannell, Malcolm Cowley, Hart Crane, Abraham Lincoln Gillespie Jr. ( on music ), Eugene Jolas ( also as Theo Rutra ), Robert McAlmon, Archibald McLeish Allen Tate ; Bryher, Morley Callaghan, Rhys Davies, Robert Graves, Sidney Hunt, Robie Macauley, Laura Riding, Ronald Symond, Dylan Thomas.

Writers who contributed plays to the series included John Osborne, Dennis Potter, Stephen Poliakoff, David Hare, Willy Russell, Alan Bleasdale, Arthur Hopcraft, Alan Plater, Graham Reid, David Storey, Andrew Davies, Rhys Adrian and John Hopkins.

* Rhys Davies ( disambiguation )

* Rhys Davies.

The group hired Rhys Davies, then a young engineer.

Rhys Davies died in Richmond in September 1838 as a result of stab wounds received in a fight with a workman and was buried on Belle Isle in the James River.

* January 1924: Rhys John Davies

* Woman Recumbent: Ghosts of the Old Year: New Welsh Short Fiction ( an anthology representing the winners of the 2001 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition ); Parthian ( with the assistance of the Rhys Davies Trust ), Cardigan 2003

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

The later British show It'll be Alright on the Night, which has been running on ITV since 1977, and hosted by Denis Norden ( replaced by Griff Rhys Jones in 2008 ) showed out-takes from film and TV.

Thomas William Rhys Davids was one of three British civil servants who were posted to Sri Lanka, in the 19th century, the others being George Turnour, and Robert Caesar Childers ( 1838 – 1876 ).

The author Jean Rhys made a significant contribution to postcolonial literature in her novel Wide Sargasso Sea, which describes a Creole woman whose British husband mistreats her based on his perceptions of her cultural heritage.

Alas Smith and Jones is a British comedy sketch television series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.

British comedians Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones appeared as a cheesy keyboard and bass duo during the end credits of one series of their long-running sketch show.

Thomas William Rhys Davids ( 12 May 1843 – 27 December 1922 ) was a British scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pali Text Society.

Boyd's novels include: A Good Man in Africa, a study of a disaster-prone British diplomat operating in West Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981 ; An Ice-Cream War, set against the background of the World War I campaigns in colonial East Africa, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982 ; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, which follows a female scientist researching chimpanzee behaviour in Africa ; and Any Human Heart, written in the form of the journals of a fictitious twentieth century British writer, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2002.

The story follows a British journalist, Arthur Stuart ( Christian Bale ), who revisits his own past while writing an article about the mysterious disappearance of a former glam-rock star, Brian Slade ( Jonathan Rhys Meyers ), for an American periodical.

* Top British film actor: Griff Rhys Jones

* Top British entertainment performers: Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones

Each advertisement mixed original footage from a different old film ( another example was The Great Escape ) with new humorous material starring British comedian Griff Rhys Jones and finishing with the slogan " A Holsten Pils Production ".

However, other British acts such as The Two Ronnies, Hale and Pace, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, Reeves and Mortimer, French and Saunders, Mitchell and Webb, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, Fry and Laurie, Lee and Herring, Armstrong and Miller, Peacock and Gamble, the role of " comic " and " straight man " are less obvious, largely interchangeable or dispensed with altogether.

It won the 1957 John Llewellyn Rhys prize, awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30.

Welsh scholar, fellow of the British Academy, celticist and the first Professor of Celtic at Oxford University, Sir John Rhys, also suggested an association between these two and Seithenyn, a Welsh character known from the Black Book of Carmarthen.

* Griff Rhys Jones, British comedian, writer, and actor

* Thomas William Rhys Davids, British scholar, founder and president of the Pali Text Society, husband of next

* Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, British scholar, second president of the Pali Text Society, wife of previous

* Arthur Rhys Davids, British ace of World War I, son of previous couple

Irwin Nathanson, Q. C., and Rhys Davies, for the appellant Law Society of British Columbia.

It was unveiled on 12 May 2011 by the sculptor, Oliver Barratt and Roderick Rhys Jones ( Chairman of the British Antarctic Monument Trust ).

* Rhys Rhys-Williams ( 1865 – 1955 ), British Liberal MP

* Rhys Williams ( Torchwood ), character from the British science fiction series Torchwood