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Yet at best this would not have compared with the days when (in his brother Richard's words) he was 'rolling in money, bags full of thousands.' He died 11 April 1765 and was buried within his parish church of Llanbadarn-fawr - his wife's house was Penbryn, near Goginan.

With all this, he was an exceptionally patriotic Welshman, one of the foremost benefactors of his people.

Indeed, Lewis Morris was in advance of his age in his appreciation of the 'harp-verse' (penillion), and ironically enough he is today best remembered, as a poet, for his penillion in praise of Merioneth. Unfortunately, she leaves his wife, Janey, at the fastidious distance she cultivated and villainizes Rossetti, who despite his philandering had a complex relationship with Morris.

He was the father of Lewis Edward William Morris, a lawyer at Carmarthen, who was the father of the poet Sir Lewis Morris. H. Davies (ed.), The Letters of Lewis, Richard, William, and John Morris, of Anglesey, (Morrisiaid Môn) 1728-1765 (1907–9), vol. It is certain that Lewis Morris, by the middle of the 18th century, was the highest authority on the language, acknowledged as such in Wales and outside it.

by his son William in 1801). When his brother Richard, in 1751, founded the Cymmrodorion Society, Lewis conceived of this as a soit of 'academy' like the French Academy or the Royal Society, and drew up a long list (printed in the Society's 'Constitutions') of topics for inquiry. J. Williams, 'Llythyrau at Ddafydd Jones o Drefriw, in The National Library of Wales Journal, 1943

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Published date: 1959

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