File NLW MS 23220E - 'Iorthryn Gwynedd': Survey of education in co. Montgomery,

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NLW MS 23220E

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'Iorthryn Gwynedd': Survey of education in co. Montgomery,

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  • 1846. (Creation)

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305 ff. Bound in quarter-leather at NLW.

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Trustees and members of Penarth Congregational chapel; Llanfair Caereinion; Donation; 1994

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A survey of the state of education in, and around, the parishes of Castle Caereinon, Llanfair Caereinion and Manafon, co. Montgomery, carried out, December 1846, by representatives of local nonconformist denominations under the supervision of the Reverend Robert David Thomas ('Iorthryn Gwynedd', 1817-88), minister of Penarth Congregational chapel, Llanfair Caereinion. Memorials on the survey were submitted to the Commissioners appointed by Government to enquire into the state of education in Wales (see 544, below).

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English

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See also Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales. Part III. North Wales (London, 1847), pp. 337-58.

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Publication note

See Jones, Gwawr: 'Dogfen Unigryw o Faldwyn' in Y Tyst, 25 May 1995, p. 3.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23220E

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vtls004630704

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

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February 2009.

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  • English

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Archivist's note

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripst in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

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