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Morgan Rhys |
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Rhys, Morgan, 1716-1776 |
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1716 |
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Rhys, Morgan, a famous Welsh hymnwriter of the last century. He published several collections of hymns under quaint titles. Golwg o ben Nebo ar wlad yr Addewid (A View of the land of promise from the top of Mr. Nebo). Frwyd Ysbrydal (The Spiritual Warfare). Graddfanan y Credadyn, &c. (The Groanings of the Believer). He died in 1776, and was buried at Llanfynydd Church, in Caermarthenshire. [Rev. W. Glenffrwd Thomas]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Rhys, Morgan, p. 959, i. A short notice of this writer (a schoolmaster in connection with the Calvinistic Methodists), is given in H. Elvet Lewis's Sweet Singers of Wales, 1889, together with a few translations into English of his hymns.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Morgan Rhys (1 April 1716 – 9 August 1779) was a Welsh hymn-writer. Rhys was born in Cilycwm as one of six or seven children of Rhys and Anne Lewis. At first one of Griffith Jones's travelling schoolmasters, he afterwards kept school on his own account at , near Llandeilo, living in a cottage on farm, in the parish of . He early joined the Calvinistic Methodists, and was a member and preacher of the . Rhys died in Llanfynydd, and was buried at Llan Fynydd.
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