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Revision as of 21:10, 1 June 2008
Robert Elis (surname sometimes spelled Ellis) (February 3 1812 – August 19 1875), better known by his bardic name Cynddelw, was a Welsh language poet, editor and lexicographer, born at Tyn y Meini, Bryndreiniog, Pen-y-bont-fawr in the old county of Montgomeryshire, Mid Wales.
He was also a Baptist minister: from 1836-1840 at Llanelian-yn-Rhos and Llanddulas, Denbighshire; from 1838-1840 Glyn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley; from 1847-1862 at Sirhowy, Tredegar, Monmouthshire; and from 1862 until his death in 1875, at Caernarfon.
His poem Yr Adgyfodiad was published in 1849, whilst he was a minister in Sirhowy. Many other poems, biographies, an autobiography and a dictionary followed. His dictionary Geiriadur Cymreig Cymraeg, published in Caernarfon in 1868 was one of the first dictionaries to be published only in Welsh (rather than English and Welsh).