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          Penderyn, Brecknock, son of Charles and Mary Bell..

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          Dic Penderyn

          Welshman involved in 1831 Merthyr Rising

          Richard Lewis (1807/8 – 13 August 1831), known as Dic Penderyn, was a Welsh labourer and coal miner who lived in Merthyr Tydfil and was involved with the Merthyr Rising of 3 June 1831.

          In the course of the riot he was arrested alongside Lewis Lewis, one of the primary figures in the uprising, and charged with stabbing a soldier with a bayonet. The people of Merthyr Tydfil doubted his guilt, and signed a petition for his release.

          However, he was found guilty and hanged on 13 August 1831.

          BELL, RICHARD ( - ), M.P. and trade union leader Born 29 November at Penderyn, Brecknock, son of Charles and Mary Bell.

        1. “Dic Penderyn” a trade union hero and Wales's First Working.
        2. Penderyn, Brecknock, son of Charles and Mary Bell.
        3. The Cardiff Centre for Welsh American Studies promotes the study of the culture, language, literature and history of the Welsh in the Americas.
        4. S-REES-ABR · Isaac Roberts, Welsh.

          5. After his death he was treated as a martyr in Merthyr and across Wales.

          Early life

          Richard Lewis was born in Aberavon, Glamorgan, Wales in 1807 or 1808, in a cottage named Penderyn. He was the son of Lewis Lewis, a cordwainer and later a miner from Cornelly, and his wife, Margaret.[1][2] He moved to Merthyr Tydfil with his family in 1819, where he and his father found work in the mines.[3] He was litera