Transcribed from the 1836 H. Hughes edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SOME OF THE MOST EMINENT INDIVIDUALS WHICH THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES HAS PRODUCED SINCE THE REFORMATION. * * * * * BY The REV. ROBERT WILLIAMS, M.A., AUTHOR OF AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CONWAY CASTLE. (To whom the Cymmvodorion awarded a Silver Medal in 1831). * * * * * WITH AN ADDENDA, CONTAINING MEMOIRS OF DR. WILLIAM OWEN PUGHE, RICHARD LLWYD, THE ANTIQUARIAN, BARDD NANTGLYN, BARDD CLOFF, AND SEVERAL OTHERS, DERIVED FROM VARIOUS AUTHENTICATED SOURCES. * * * * * LONDON: H. HUGHES, 15, ST. MARTIN’S-LE-GRAND. * * * * * 1836. METCALFF, PRINTERS, 5 GROCERS’ HALL COURT, POULTRY. TO THE PUBLIC. The object of this little work, is, to show to the English reader, that Wales has produced a number of highly talented and distinguished individuals; and the publication might be greatly extended, were it deemed prudent to add the names of those learned men who are still among us. The publisher will feel obliged for any additional names, which will be inserted in a future edition. * * * * * Mr. Williams’s portion may be had printed in Welsh. Price one shilling. * * * * * BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, ETC. _William Baxter_ was born in Wales in the year 1650. In his eighteenth year he was sent to Harrow School, when he could speak no other language but Welsh; he, however, soon acquired English, and triumphantly overcame all these disadvantages, and at the age of twenty-nine he commenced author, with the publication of his “Analogia Linguæ Latinæ.” He afterwards was appointed master of the Mercer’s School, in London. He soon made himself known as an excellent philologist and antiquary, by several learned works, and more particularly his Horace and his Dictionary of British Antiquities, entitled “Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum,” in which he attempted, from his knowledge of the British language, to determine geography by etymology. He died in 1723.