Death
Penderyn was hanged outside Cardiff gaol on the gallows in St. Mary's Street, Cardiff (current St Marys Street entrance to Cardiff Market), on August 13 at the age of 23. According to popular reports his wife was pregnant at the time, and had a miscarriage as a result. His last words were: "O Arglwydd, dyma gamwedd" or "Oh Lord, here is iniquity."
Thousands flocked to escort his body to his grave through the Vale of Glamorgan, and listened to a funeral sermon from his brother in law Morgan Howells. He is buried in St Mary's churchyard, Port Talbot near Aberavon, where a memorial was placed on his grave by local trades unionists in 1966. A plaque to Dic Penderyn can now also be found at the entrance to Cardiff Market on St Mary's Street, Cardiff. Regarded as a martyr his death further embittered relations between Welsh workers and the authorities and strengthened the Trade Union movement and Chartism in the run up to the Newport Rising.
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