Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc)

The Reverend Thomas Price (2 October 1787 – 7 November 1848)[1] (known by the bardic name of Carnhuanawc) was a historian and a major Welsh literary figure of the early 19th century.

Price was also "an essayist, orator, naturalist, educationalist, linguist, antiquarian, artist and musician".

He also encouraged the British and Foreign Bible Society to fund the publication, in 1827, of Jean-François Le Gonidec's translation of the New Testament into Breton.

[3] Price was also a close friend of Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué ("Kervarker"), the leading Breton literary figure of the day, who was editor of the collection of popular songs known as the Barzaz Breiz (Ballads of Brittany).

Price brought La Villemarqué to a hugely successful series of Eisteddfodau at Abergavenny.