William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)

Welsh minister and writer

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1802

Place of Birth: Llansannan, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 08-Nov-1883

Profession: poet, minister

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)

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  • William Rees (8 November 1802 – 8 November 1883), usually known in Wales by his bardic name of Gwilym Hiraethog, was a Welsh poet and author, one of the major figures of Welsh literature during the 19th century. Gwilym Hiraethog took his pseudonym from his birthplace, a farm on the Hiraethog mountain in Denbighshire.
  • Largely self-educated, he was a polymath, who took an interest in astronomy and political science as well as being a Nonconformist minister and a leading literary figure. In 1843 he founded the Welsh language journal Yr Amserau ("The Times") in Liverpool.
  • He used the newspaper to campaign for the disestablishment of the Church in Wales.
  • His Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr (Predicaments of an Old Tailor) (1877) was a pioneering attempt to fashion a Welsh-language novel.

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