Elijah Waring

Elijah Waring (14 April 1787 – 29 March 1857) was an Anglo-Welsh writer.

[2] 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.

[4] Waring preached at local chapels and later became a Wesleyan and then a Baptist.

His memoir of Iolo, Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams, the Bard of Glamorgan, was published in 1850.

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.