CAMPBELL
(
MORRIESON
),
ELIZA CONSTANTIA
(
1796
-
1864
),
author
;
b.
8 Jan. 1796
, she was the daughter of
Richard
Pryce
of
Gunley
near
Forden
(one of whose ancestors,
Capt.
Richard
Pryce
, was a prominent
Montgomeryshire Roundhead
). She was twice m.: first (
1826
) to
Commander
Robert
Campbell
,
R.N.
(d.
1832
), a cousin of
Thomas
Campbell
the
poet
— one of their sons was
Lewis
Campbell
the Greek scholar (see
D.N.B.
, 2nd suppl.); and secondly (
1844
) to
Capt.
Hugh
Morrieson
,
E.I.C.
(d.
1859
). She published
Stories from the History of Wales
,
1833
, reissued in
1837
as
Tales about Wales
. She d. in
1864
.
Bibliography:
-
R. Williams
,
Montgomeryshire Worthies
, second ed.,
1894
;
-
Cardiff Free Libraries, Catalogue of Printed
Literature in the Welsh Department
, 1898
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
