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LEWIS, RICHARD (Dic Penderyn; 1807/8 - 1831), miner and revolutionary martyr 1827, the Rev. Morgan Howells. There is no certain evidence of Dic Penderyn's movements until the outbreak of the Merthyr Tydfil riots of 1831. He was then a married man living at Merthyr, and was a miner by occupation. Rioting began on 2 June with an attack on the house of Joseph Coffin, clerk to the Court of Requests, and the destruction of his furniture (see Lewis Lewis, ' Lewsyn yr Heliwr
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy read in the B.M. Library; he was introduced on this visit to Owen Jones, William Owen Pughe, Sharon Turner, and others. Owing to his acquaintance with several members of landed and other families he was able to procure financial assistance (from the Royal Literary Fund, etc.), for such persons as David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), Richard Robert Jones (Dic Aberdaron), and Jonathan Hughes. He came to be
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet closing date. Had he done so the Eisteddfod would have received poems from four of the foremost strict metre poets in Wales, namely Alan Llwyd, Dic Jones, Donald Evans and Gerallt himself, which would have proved an additional headache to the adjudicators. The completed poem was published in his volume Cilmeri a Cherddi Eraill. In Swansea in 1982 he won again for his ode 'Cilmeri', about Llywelyn ap
PRICE, JOSEPH TREGELLES (1784 - 1854), Quaker and ironmaster the reputation of pre-eminence for the manufacture of all kinds of machinery, pumps, boilers, marine and stationary engines, etc. The Western Mail of 30 May 1923 reported that machines that had been made at the Neath Abbey works a century earlier were still used to commercial advantage in the Forest of Dean. Price visited ' Dic Penderyn ', then under sentence of death (1831), in Cardiff gaol, became
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author , Mary, Jane, and Owen) and three younger brothers, Richard (Dic), Evan, and David (Dei). From 1895 onwards the family lived in Cae'r Gors, a smallholding, where they practised subsistence farming to bolster the family income. Cae'r Gors was Kate's home for most of her early years, and she conveys a vivid sense of the cottage and its surrounding four fields in her 1961 autobiography, Y Lôn Wen (The
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (fl. 1790?-1862?), a writer and singer of ballads
WILLIAMS, RICHARD HUGHES (Dic Tryfan; 1878? - 1919), journalist and short story writer

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