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Surname	Beynon	Alternative Surname
First Name	D, of Cilycwm	Initial of Surname	B
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1819-74
Year of Death
Biographical Details	He signs some, at least, of his earlier monuments ‘D. Benyon Cilycwm’ (1, 2, 4). By 1868 he was living in the adjacent parish, for Slater’s Directory for that year lists his address as Glanrhyderryd, Llandingat. His father may have been Rees Beynon, a mason of Llandovery, listed in Pigot’s Directory of 1831. Dale-Jones and Lloyd note that Beynon was ‘clearly a competent workman who enjoyed the patronage of the lesser local gentry’ but describes his works as ‘stiff and unadventurous’ in execution. J Beynon, who signs a three-panelled gothic monument to the Rees family in the church of St Dingat, Llandovery, may have been his son. Literary References: Dale-Jones and Lloyd 1989, 46