PRITCHARD
,
ROBERT
(
fl.
1730-1738
),
poet and master mariner
.
Blodeu-gerdd Cymry
contains a long religious poem by ‘
Robert
Pritchard
of
Pentraeth
,
Anglesey
,
1738
.’ He was probably the ‘
Robert
Prichard
Poet
,’
master
of the small vessel,
Blessing
, which carried slates from
Abercegin
, near
Bangor
, from
1730 to 1733
, as recorded in the
Penrhyn estate papers
.
Bibliography:
-
Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry
, 1759
,
1759
, 402;
-
Penrhyn Manuscripts at University College North
Wales Library, Bangor
(U.C.N.W.), no. 1642.
Author:
David Thomas, O.B.E., M.A., (1880-1967), Bangor
