MORRIS
,
DAVID
(
Eiddil Gwent
;
c.
1798
-
1878
),
author
;
b. about
1798
. He was a
cobbler
by trade and spent the greater part of his life at
Tredegar
. He
wrote a great deal of poetry and prose
and was one of the leading members of the
Abergavenny Cymreigyddion
. His poems were popular and some of his songs or ballads are sung to this day, e.g., the one commencing ‘
Can mlynedd i nawr
.’ At the
Tredegar Cymmrodorion eisteddfod
,
1862
, he was successful with his
History of Tredegar
, which was published in
1868
. He spent the last years of his life as an inmate of the workhouse at
Tredegar
. He d. when he was about 80 years old.
Bibliography:
-
William Williams
,
Cân, Llên, a Gwerin sef cynhyrchion y
diweddar Myfyr Wyn
, Aberdâr, 1908
;
-
Powell
,
History of Tredegar subject of competition
at Tredegar 'Chair Eisteddfod', held February the 25th,
1884
, Newport, 1902
,
1902
;
-
Morris
,
Hanes Tredegar o ddechreuad y gwaith haiarn
hyd yr amser presenol
, Tredegar, 1868
,
1868
.
Author:
Thomas Isfryn Jones, Aberystwyth
