PRYSE, JOHN (1826 - 1883), printer and publisher

He was born in 1826 in Radnorshire, but lived nearly all his life at Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire. He was apprenticed a shoemaker, but forsook that trade for that of bookseller, to which he subsequently added that of printer. He was a lover of Welsh literature and lore, and published numerous reprints of books relating to Wales, such as Evan Evans's Specimens of ancient Welsh poetry; Theophilus Evans, View of the primitive ages; A. J. Johnes, Causes of dissent in Wales; and several original works; W. Rowlands's Cambrian Bibliography, 1869; J. Jenkins, The poetry of Wales, 1873; Breezes from the Welsh mountains, 1853; Pryse's Welsh Interpreter, Pryse's Handbook to the Radnorshire and Breconshire mineral springs. In 1859 he started the publication of the Llanidloes and Newtown Telegraph, a weekly newspaper, the second to be published in Montgomeryshire. Pryse was twice married, his first wife, being the widow of Richard Mills, the musician. He died 19 October 1883.

Author

• Idwal Lewis

Sources

• R. Williams, Montgomeryshire Worthies (1894)
• T. Mordaf Pierce, Y Parchedig Humphrey Gwalchmai, y bugail cyntaf un Nghyfundeb y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd gyda threm ar hanes dechreuad yr Achos yn nosbarth Llanidloes (1908)

Works

• John Pryse, James Rhys Jones and R. Richardson, Pryse's handbook to the Breconshire and Radnorshire mineral springs: with notes and excerpts illustrating the history, antiquities, and topography of many of the surrounding towns and villages (Llanidloes 1860)
• John Pryse, Pryse's handbook to the Breconshire and Radnorshire mineral springs: with various descriptive journeys and excursions therefrom to numerous places of interest in central Wales (Llanidloes 1870)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733619

Published date: 1959

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