HALL, RICHARD (1817 - 1866), poet

Name: Richard Hall
Date of birth: 1817
Date of death: 1866
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Gwyn Jones

He lived most and perhaps all of his life at Brecon, where he kept a pharmacy. In 1850 he published A Tale of the Past and Other Poems, with a dedication to Eliza Cook. He was self-confessedly content with the lower slopes of that Parnassus whose peak he judged Eliza Cook to have scaled. He died 25 January 1866 and was buried in Llanspyddyd churchyard.

Author

Professor Gwyn Jones, (1907 - 1999)

Sources

Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock (Glanusk edition, 1930), iv, 159
Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen... from the earliest times to the present (1908)
J. Rogers Rees in The Red Dragon, iv, 223-30
Catalogue of Printed Literature in the Welsh Department, Cardiff Free Libraries (1898)
T. Morgan, Enwogion Cymreig 1700-1900 (1907)

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q20734278

Published date: 1959

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