PARRY
,
ROBERT
(
fl.
1810-1863
),
poet
;
b. probably at
Llanbryn-mair
, son of
Robert
Parry
,
curate
of that parish, and
Mary
, his wife, daughter of
John
Jones
of
Esgair Ifan
. While he was still a small child his father was given the living of
Eglwys-bach, Denbs.
(
1810-26
) and the family went to live in that place (
Thomas
,
S. Asaph
, ii, 311). He himself had originally intended to take orders, and was educated with that view, but changed his mind and for the greater part of his life
farmed
Plas Efenechtyd
and
Plas Towerbridge
, near
Ruthin
. A number of his poems appeared in different periodicals, and he obtained the second place in the
Denbigh eisteddfod
of
1828
for an
awdl
on ‘
Belshazzar's Feast
.’ He d. in
1863
, and was buried at
Eglwys-bach
.
Bibliography:
-
Eminent Welshmen
, 1908
;
-
R. Williams
,
Montgomeryshire Worthies
, second ed.,
1894
;
-
Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion
Cymru
, 1870
;
-
National Library of Wales Manuscript
9269.
Author:
Dr Enid Pierce Roberts, M.A., D.Litt., Bangor
