John Edwards (Sion Ceiriog) (1747 – September 1792) was a Welsh poet, born at Crogen Wladys in Glyn Ceiriog. He co-founded a London Welsh literary and cultural society.

Life

Edwards,

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(Myfyr), and Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu o Fon), were the founders of Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion or the Venedotian Society, in 1770. Sion Ceiriog, as Edwards was called, wrote an

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(ode) for the meeting of the society on

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, 1778. He was its secretary in 1779–1780, and its president in 1783. Edwards received an honorary medal from the Society of Gwyneddigion in 1780 for a blank-verse elegy to a fellow poet, Richard Morris.

Memorial

Edwards died suddenly in 1792, aged 45.

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contributed memorial verses to the ''Geirgrawn'' of June 1796 and wrote: "To the memory of John Edwards, Glynceiriog, in the parish of

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, who was generally known as Sion Ceiriog, a poet, an orator, and an astronomer, a curious historian of sea and land, a manipulator of musical instruments, a true lover of his country and of his Welsh mother tongue, who, to the great regret of his friends, died and was buried in London, September 1792."

References

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