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Rhys was best known in local government as a member of the
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from 1874 and served as its chairman from 1877 until 1898. As an educationalist his activities ranged from advocating industrial schools to take children out of the workhouse to his membership of the
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in the 1840s and was chairman from 1880 to 1887. For many years he chaired the
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was developed, and also land for the municipal cemetery. He was also prominent in the development of the water and sewerage schemes for
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