Biography of Dic Penderyn, hanged for stabbing a soldier after the 1831 Merthyr Rising – a crime later confessed to by someone else – and held as a Welsh Martyr. The book examines his life and background as far as we can now know it, his long-term legacy and role as the first labour martyr.
Preface 7
Introduction 8
Chapter 1: Early Years 13
Chapter 2: Over to Merthyr 25
Chapter 3: Riots and Risings 42
Chapter 4: The Trial 59
Chapter 5: Last Days 80
Chapter 6: Aftermath 101
Chapter 7: Afterlife 125
Appendices 145
i Accounts of the Execution: 145
a) Biography of Revd David Williams 145
b) Biography of Revd Edmund Evans 147
ii Account of the Funeral 150
iii Letters to the Press: 156
a) account of meeting the man who
stabbed the soldier 156
b) Isaac Evans’s letter 158
iv Lewis Davies, Ystoriau Siluria 162
v Dic’s Last Letter 165
Endnotes 168
Picture Section 175
Bibliography 182
Index 186
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