Robert Bryan (poet)
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Robert Bryan (1858 – 5 May 1920) was a Welsh poet, composer and folklorist.


Life

He was born at
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,
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, Wales, son of Edward and Elinor Bryan . He was a pupil and a pupil teacher at the
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British School and then educated at the Normal College, Bangor, the
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, and at
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. He was forced to discontinue his studies at Oxford in 1893 without attaining a degree because of ill health. He lived at
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and
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until 1903 when he moved to
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, where his brothers, Edward and Joseph Davies Bryan, had a house. His brothers ran a successful retail business in Egypt with large stores in Cairo and Alexandria, and branches in Port Said and Khartoum. Robert Bryan spent most of his winters there, returning to Caernarfon each summer. Between 1905 and 1909 he was a teacher at Rhostryfan. He died in
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, on 5 May 1920, and was buried there. He was unmarried.


Works

Poems by him were published in ''Oldlau Can'' (1901). Another volume ''Tua'r Wawr'', was published posthumously in 1921. He wrote music arrangements at the request of David Thomas, of Bangor whilst he was teaching. They were written for Alun Mabon of Ceiriog.


Bibliography

Poems *Odlau Cân (Llanuwchllyn, 1901) *Tua'r Wawr (1921) Music (As editor): *Alawon y Celt - Celtic tunes (two volumes, 1905)


References

1858 births 1920 deaths British music arrangers Welsh composers Welsh male composers Welsh folklorists Welsh-language poets 19th-century Welsh historians 20th-century Welsh historians People from Denbighshire Alumni of Aberystwyth University {{Wales-writer-stub