Otherwise known as Dic Penderyn.
Folk hero executed after the Merthyr rising of 1831.
Folk hero executed after the Merthyr rising of 1831.
Otherwise known as Dic Penderyn.
Folk hero executed after the Merthyr rising of 1831.
Folk hero executed after the Merthyr rising of 1831.
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Richard Lewis, 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.
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