born August 1802, Llanarmon, Caernarvonshire, Wales died Feb. 17, 1863
![Fardd, detail of an engraving by Samuel Bellin, 1851, after a painting by Evan Williams[Credits : Courtesy of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth]](http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/49/11949-003-29CB2CF2.gif)
Welsh-language poet, the last of the 19th-century bards to contribute works of genuine poetic distinction to the eisteddfods (poetic competitions).
His best-known poems include Dinystr Jerusalem (“Destruction of Jerusalem”), an ode that won the prize at the Welshpool eisteddfod (1824); Job, which won at Liverpool (1840); and Maes Bosworth (“Bosworth Field”), which won at Llangollen (1858). In addition to his eisteddfodic compositions, he wrote many hymns, a collection of which was published in 1862. His complete works appeared under the title Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (1875; “Poetic Works of Eben Fardd”). From 1827 he conducted a school at Clynnog, Caernarvonshire.
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