Ebenezer Thomas

[1] Eben Fardd was born in Llanarmon, Caernarvonshire, the son of a weaver, and educated at local schools.

He moved to Clynnog Fawr in 1827, where he lived opposite the church of St Beuno in a house now called Bod Cybi, and is buried in the churchyard.

In 1840, he won another prize at the Liverpool eisteddfod, and in 1841, his first volume of poetry, Caniadau ("Songs"), was published.

His best-known hymn, Crist yn Graig Ddisigl (Christ as an unwavering rock), also known by its opening line "O!

my blessed Jesus"), was written in response to the deaths of three of his children and his wife, all during the 1850s.