JONES, DAVID (1732 - 1782?), 'Dafydd Brydydd Hir,' 'Dafydd Siôn Pirs,' poet, tailor, and schoolmaster
Pseudonym: Dafydd Brydydd Hir, Dafydd Siôn Pirs
Date of birth: 1732
Date of death: 1782?
Parent: Anne Pierce
Parent: John Pierce
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet, tailor, and schoolmaster
Area of activity: Business and Industry; Education; Poetry
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
Christened 29 October 1732, son of John Pierce and his wife Anne who kept the 'Harp' inn at Llanfair-talhaearn, Denbighshire. The poet Talhaiarn quotes David Jones's self-portrait: 'long, lanky, hirsute, and thirsty.' He was the boon-companion of Ieuan Fardd when Ieuan was curate of Llanfair; other cronies of his were Robert Thomas and John Powel - according to Additional Letters of the Morrises of Anglesey (1735-86) (p. 736) he wrote an elegy upon the latter. J.H. Davies gives a list of printed ballads by him (Bibliography of Welsh Ballads, 85, 676, 684, 721); the most famous of these was his song in praise of the harp. Some of his work appeared in Cyfaill y Cymro, 1767. It is believed that he died c. 1782.
Author
- Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)
- Gwaith Talhaiarn (London 1855), i, 14, 16-20
- Williams, Awduron Sir Ddinbych a'u gweithiau (1937), 68
- Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales (indexed)
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 672D
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20732850
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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