Elijah Waring
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Elijah Waring (14 April 1787 – 29 March 1857) was an Anglo-Welsh writer. He founded an English-language periodical in Swansea.
Early life
Born at Alton, Hampshire, Waring was the son of Quaker parents Jeremiah and Lettice Waring.England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578–1837 He settled in South Wales in about 1810.{{Cite DWB |id=s-WARI-ELI-1788 |title=Waring, Elijah (c.1788-1857) merchant, author and publisher |author=Griffith John Williams |year=1959 |access-date=25 January 2022}}
Writings and preaching
Waring founded an English-language periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany at Swansea in January 1813, but it had to close in August that year.[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cambrian_visitor_(Welsh_Journal).jpg Photograph of document. Retrieved 25 April 2019.] He moved to Neath in the following year. In 1817, Waring married Deborah Price, sister of the Quaker industrialist Joseph Tregelles Price, in a Quaker ceremony.[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Price_Family Price family. Retrieved 25 April 2019.] Waring preached at local chapels and later became a Wesleyan and then a Baptist.E. Wyn James, ‘Anna Waring, Iolo Morganwg, a Chrynwyr Castell-nedd a Chernyw’ [Rhan 2], Y Dinesydd, 484 (Chwefror 2024), 14-15: http://dinesydd.cymru/teithiau/ He wrote articles for The Cambrian on subjects such as Parliamentary reform, and became friendly with Iolo Morganwg, about whom he later wrote a series of articles. His memoir of Iolo, Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams, the Bard of Glamorgan, was published in 1850.
Later life
In 1835, Waring moved to Cardiff, and afterwards to Clifton near Bristol, but he returned to Neath in 1855 and spent his last years there. His daughter, Anna Laetitia Waring, became well known as a hymn-writer.
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Sources
- [http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s-WARI-ELI-1788.html Welsh Biography Online]
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