MORRIS
,
ROBERT PRYS
(
1831?
-
1890
),
local historian and antiquary; a writer in Welsh and English journals
(see, e.g. an article by him in
Y Traethodydd
, xliv) and a
temperance advocate
. He is remembered for his
Cantref Meirionydd
, published at
Dolgelley
in
1890
a few weeks after the death, on
1 March
that year, of the
author
. In its time it was a most useful work, scholarly and painstaking according to the standard then prevailing; it continues to prove a work to which reference can be made.
Bibliography:
-
Bye–Gones, relating to Wales and the Border
Counties
,
19 March 1890
;
-
Y Goleuad
,
6 and 13 March 1890
.
Author:
Sir William Llewelyn Davies, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A. (1887-1952),
Aberystwyth
