Background
He was born at Bala and educated there and at the grammar school in Carmarthen, going on to Jesus College, Oxford.
He was born at Bala and educated there and at the grammar school in Carmarthen, going on to Jesus College, Oxford.
Jesus College.
In 1819 he was ordained and became chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford. A scholar of the Welsh language, he was closely associated with both Lady Charlotte Guest and Lady Llanover. He was also a Hebrew scholar, publishing a translation of the Book of Isaiah in 1830.
In 1842, he moved to Nevern in Pembrokeshire, and in 1848 became a canon of Street David"s Cathedral.
His collected poems were published posthumously in 1859.