1716 - 1776 Person Name: M. R. Author (stanza 3) of "Daw plant y gaethglud adre (The captives' brighter morrow)" in Mawl a chân = praise and song 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)
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