Myfanwy Rhŷs

Myvanwy Rhys (1 August 1874 – 28 November 1945), also spelled Myfanwy Rhŷs, was a Welsh suffragist and historian. She was elected to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, a Welsh learned society, later becoming a vice-president of the society. She won the Ada Max Müller German Scholarship there when she was 15 years old, according to an article in The Monthly Tidings (a Welsh monthly publication for Calvinistic Methodists) in March 1891. Rhys reportedly won the scholarship two years in a row. and Max Müller (a German-born British philologist), who predeceased her parents in 1876 at 15 years old.

Rhys later won the Gold Medal from The Society for French Teachers in England for her performance in an examination on French language and literature. An article in The North Wales Express from 8 July 1892 reported that she passed her Latin and Greek exams that year. The dispute was widely publicised, including in The Times. The university senate deemed that Osborn's conduct had been "refined and honourable" and, as a consequence, Hughes was asked either to resign or face dismissal from the committee managing the halls. As a result, she travelled to Trinity College, Dublin, in 1905 to receive her classics degree ad eundem as one of the steamboat ladies.

In 1900, Rhys won the Gibson Greek Testament prize at Newnham College, Cambridge, for an essay she wrote about "the New Testament conception of the Logos, its sources and contents". After the delegation arrived at the Albert Hall, Rhys presented a bouquet of irises to Millicent Fawcett, a prominent campaigner for women's suffrage in England and leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies from 1897 until 1919.

Academic career Rhys was also known for her research on Medieval history. Her research on folksong was published in The Nation, a progressive weekly publication, in 1907.

A car knocked Rhys down in the summer of 1945 and she had to spend several weeks in hospital, as a result. Her death was noted in the "Report of the Council" in the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, with particular mention of her work on "Ministers Accounts for West Wales 1277-1306".