HARRI or HARRY, WILLIAM (Gwilym Garw-dyle, 1763 - 1844), poet

Born 18 December 1763 at Garw-dyle in Penderyn, Brecknock, a grandson, it is said, of the poet Siôn Llewelyn of Vaynor. He was a weaver, as were his brothers Siôn Harri of Vaynor and Edward Harri of Cefn-Coed-y-Cymer. After farming unsuccessfully at Llwyn-onn, Penderyn, he spent the greater part of his life at Pontbrenllwyd; he had nine children. He died 11 July 1844 in the house of one of his sons, at Dowlais, in his eighty-second year. He wrote satirical and religious verse; he was a Unitarian. He published two volumes, Yr Awen Resymol, 1828, and Nodd Awen, 1835.

Author

• Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)

Sources

• W. Morgan, The Illustrated Vaynor handbook containing photographic views of Vaynor, Cefn Coed, Pontsarn and Morlais Castle, with the history and folk-lore of the parish (1893), 1893, 102-5
• Y Geninen, 1900, 211

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20734028

Published date: 1959

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