HARRI or HARRY, WILLIAM (Gwilym Garw-dyle , 1763-1844), poet;
b. 18 Dec. 1763 at Garw-dyle in Penderyn, Brecknock, a grandson, it is said, of the poet Siôn Llewelyn of Vaynor (q.v.). He was a weaver, as were his brothers Siôn Harri of Vaynor and Edward Harri (q.v.) 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 d. 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.
Bibliography:
- W. Morgan, The Vaynor Handbook, 1893, 102-5;
- Gen., 1900, 211.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D., F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor.
