LEWIS
,
RICHARD MORRIS
(
1847
-
1918
),
scholar and littérateur
;
b.
1847
at
Forest Arms
,
Brechfa, Carms.
, son of
John
and
Leisa
Lewis
. He became
principal clerk
in
H.M. Inland Revenue offices
,
Swansea
.
Translations
by him appear in
Welsh
hymnaries; he also made
metrical renderings in Welsh
of passages from
Homer
's ‘
Iliad
.’ Perhaps his most important contribution is his translation of
Gray
's
Elegy
. He d.
20 Sept. 1918
, and was buried in
Brechfa
churchyard. Some of his MSS. are in the
N.L.W.
(
N.L.W. MSS. 2249-50
).
Bibliography:
-
T. Gwynn Jones
(ed.),
Iliad Homer Cyfieithiadau gan R. Morris
Lewis
, Wrexham, 1928
(Wrexham,
1928
);
-
Cymru
,
May 1926, 143
;
-
Yr Efrydydd
, Bangor
,
Aug. 1933.
Author:
Rev. Professor John Oliver Stephens, M.A., B.D., (1880-1957),
Carmarthen
