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Robert Elis (3 February 1812 – 19 August 1875; sometimes spelt Ellis) professionally known by his bardic name Cynddelw (after a 12th-century poet of the same name) was a Welsh language poet editor and lexicographer born at Tyn y Meini Bryndreiniog Pen-y-Bont-Fawr in the old county of Montgomeryshire Mid Wales.He was also a Baptist minister: from 1836 to 1840 at Llanelian-yn-Rhos and Llanddulas Denbighshire; from 1838-1840 Glyn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley; from 1847 to 1862 at Tredegar Monmouthshire; and from 1862 until his death in 1875 at Caernarfon.His poem Yr Adgyfodiad was published in 1849 whilst he was a minister at Tredegar in the Sirhowy Valley.
