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Richard Bennett (1860-1937), Methodist historian, antiquary and copyist, was born at Hendre Cwm Pennant, Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, a farmer's son who received only a basic education. He manifested an early interest in local history, copying out parish registers and researching their information. Later, he would contribute historical articles to periodicals. From 1905 Bennett regularly visited Trefeca College to read and research manuscripts and it was he who copied out the Trefeca letters for publication in the supplements of the C. M. Historical Journal. Bennett also published several of his own works relating to the history of Calvinistic Methodism in Montgomeryshire.
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A list of Cemmaes rectors from 1537 to 1906 and a transcript of the parish registers of Cemmaes, Montgomeryshire, 1711-1780, both in the hand of Richard Bennett, together with notes in the hand of D. C. Lloyd-Owen of some Llanbrynmair wills.
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Latin, English.
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Creator ref. no.: Lloyd-Owen MS 9.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 5994B.