HOWEL, HARRI (fl. 1637-1671), bard

son of Howel ap Siôn Ieuan of the parish of Dolgelley, also a bard. He was contemporary with Gruffydd Phylip and sang to many of the families to whom that bard sang. On the evidence of the eighteen (or so) cywyddau by him which survive, Harri Howel sang to members of houses ranging from Bodwrdda (west Caernarfonshire), Gwaenynog and Llwyn Ynn (in the vale of Clwyd), to Nannau and Hafod Dywyll (near Dolgelley) and to Dolau-gwyn near Towyn, Meironnydd. It is probable that, like Siôn Phylip, he farmed his own land - there survives to this day a 'Ffridd Harri Howel' on the borders of the parishes of Dolgelley and Llanfachreth. He composed an elegy on the death of John Myddelton, Gwaenynog, in 1637 and a cywydd on the marriage of Robert Owen, parson of Llangelynnin, Meironnydd, 1671.

Author

• Robert (Bob) Owen, (1885 - 1962)

Sources

• NLW Archives: NLW MS 3038B (203), NLW MS 3050D (650, 663, 667, 669), NLW MS 3061D (121)
• Wrexham Manuscript at the National Library of Wales 3 (97, 121, 136)
• NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 123: Poetry (474)
• NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 38: Poetry (180)
• NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 124: Poetry (647)
• NLW Archives: NLW MS 434B (17)
• Havod Manuscript at Cardiff Central Library 3 (306), 12 (37)
• Manuscripts in the possession of Mr Robert Owen, Croesor

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q18528066

Published date: 1959

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