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Welshman involved in 1831 Merthyr Rising

Richard Lewis (1807/8 – 13 August 1831), 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.

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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. The people of Merthyr Tydfil doubted his guilt, and signed a petition for his release.

However, he was found guilty and hanged on 13 August 1831. After his death he was treated as a martyr in Merthyr and across Wales.

Early life

Richard Lewis was born in Aberavon, Glamorgan, Wales in 1807 or 1808, in a cottage named Penderyn.

He was the son of Lewis Lewis, a cordwainer and later a miner from Cornelly, and his wife, Margaret.^[1][2] He moved to Merthyr Tydfil with his family in 1819, where he and his father found work in the mines.^[3] He was