HALL, RICHARD (1817-1866), poet,
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 d. 25 Jan. 1866 and was buried in Llanspyddyd churchyard.
Bibliography:
- Theophilus Jones, Hist. Brecknock. (Glanusk edition, 1930), iv, 159;
- Asaph (Em. W.);
- J. Rogers Rees in The Red Dragon, iv, 223-30;
- Cardiff Catalogue;
- T. Morgan, Enw. Cym..
Author:
Professor Gwyn Jones, M.A., (1907-99), Aberystwyth / Cardiff
