Papers of the Richard family, Tregaron and London.

A collection of family papers relating to the Richard family of Tregaron. The collection includes letters from the Reverend Ebenezer Richard addressed to members of his family, together with letters from his son, the Reverend Henry Richard, also mainly addressed to family members.
The collection also contains a table in the hand of Ebenezer Richard, dated 5 December 1816, showing dates of circuit journeys to be undertaken by Calvinistic Methodist ministers in Cardiganshire during 1817; a petition, dated [1878], addressed to W. E. Gladstone, Prime Minister, from Henry Richard and others, and enclosing papers, dated 1878, relating to the Abersychan Relief Committee; and a printed address by Henry Richard directed to the electorate of Merthyr Tydfil, Vaynor and Aberdare.

Arranged chronologically at NLW.

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The Rev. H. R. Evans, great grandson of Ebenezer Richard; Broadhempston; Donation.

Title based on contents.

Also included is a photocopy of Ebenezer Richard's circuit table (f. 11).

Preferred citation: NLW MS 17415D.

May 2007.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans;

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See also CMA 14174-6, which contain correspondence from Ebenezer Richard to his daughters, Mary and Hannah, and to Mary and Samuel Morris, his daughter and son-in-law; NLW MS 14020D, which contains personal correspondence, 1830-1866, of Ebenezer and Henry Richard to and from family members; CMA 14180, which contains 'The Family Register of Mary and Ebenezer Richard', being a diary kept by Ebenezer Richard, 1809-36 (typewritten copy made by the Reverend Henry Richard Evans, vicar of Broadhempston, Devon, the great grandson of Ebenezer Richard, July 1935); NLW MS 5504C, which contains letters, 1870-1887, from W. E. Gladstone to Henry Richard, some of which refer to Nonconformity in Welsh education and in Parliament and three of which, dated 27 February 1872, 29 November 1872 and 22 September 1883, refer to the appointment of a Nonconformist candidate to a vacant post on the Charity Commission (see NLW MS 17415D, f. 12); and NLW MSS 14021D - 14022E, which contain correspondence, 1873-[1886], between Henry Richard and W. E. Gladstone, including a reference to the appointment of the Inspector of Mines in South Wales (see NLW MS 17415D, ff. 17-18 verso).

See NLW MS 11052E, which contains the incomplete manuscript biography of Henry Richard by Griffith Jones, Llanfairfechan ('Glan Menai') and in which it is related how Henry Richard spoke against the non-representation of Welsh Nonconformists in Parliament (ff. 39-40, 49-50).

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