ROBERTS, MORRIS (Morris ap Robert; died c. 1723), poet, and carpenter

a native of Tynllidiart, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd, who later lived at Bala. He was a Congregationalist. His daughter married John Evans of Bala, Methodist exhorter (1723 - 1817). Examples of his poetry, in strict and free metres, are found in manuscript; they include cywyddau, one on Bala Lake, and another on Judgement Day, and englynion composed to each other by Richard John Jenkin and himself. A number of free-metre poems, mainly on religious and moral themes, also remain; six of them are included in Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry. No details are known concerning the poet's life, but a number of anecdotes about him are found in Y Brython (Tremadoc), Y Gwyliedydd, Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry, and in Hanes Eglwysi Annibynol Cymru. Some of his work was printed by O. M. Edwards in Beirdd y Berwyn and Beirdd y Bala (both in ' Cyfres y Fil'). And many years after Morris Roberts's death, William Thomas (1749 - 1809), Independent minister at Bala, printed (Tre-vecka, 1793) a religious tract by him, Cyngor i'r Cynmry mewn Deuddeg o Bennodau.

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• Cardiff Manuscript 64
• NLW Archives: Cwrtmawr MS 128A, Cwrtmawr MS 216B, Cwrtmawr MS 222D, Cwrtmawr MS 225B, Cwrtmawr MS 226B, Cwrtmawr MS 230B, Cwrtmawr MS 448A, Cwrtmawr MS 463D
• Plas Nantglyn MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 3
• NLW MSS 432, 436, 559, 645, 700, 783, 1238, 1287, 4697, 4971, 6146, 6882, 7892, 10252, 14402
• Swansea Manuscript 2
• David Jones, Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry (Mwythig 1779), 96, 175, 438, 453, 472, 474
• Iolo Meirion, Traethawd ar Enwogion Swydd Feirion, hen a diweddar, yn gelfyddydwyr, beirdd, gwyddonwyr, pregethwyr, 1870, 86
• Y Brython, 1860, 265, 270
• Y Gwyliedydd, 1823, 273
• W. Rowlands, Cambrian Bibliography (Llanidloes 1869), 1869, 674
• T. Rees, Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, i, 401

Additional Links

• VIAF: 73729314
• Wikidata: Q20804740

Published date: 1959

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