Chwarter canrif ar ôl marw Edward Richard, ysgrifennodd John Williams adroddiad byr am fywyd ei ragflaenydd [7]. Dywedodd bod Edward Richard yn byw o fewn ergyd carreg i eglwys Ystradmeurig, ond ni ddatgelodd yn hollol ble. Awgrymodd Osborne Jones yn 1934 [8] y gallai fod o dan iard yr ysgol, ar y dde i’r ffordd i Aberystwyth. Ond erbyn 1950, roedd wedi newid ei feddwl, ac mewn erthygl yn y Welsh Gazette [9], barnau mai’r Henblas (sydd ar ochr y ffordd i Swyddfynnon) oedd cartref Edward Richard. Roedd ei ddadl a’i resymeg yn gredadwy iawn, ac mae’n werth dyfynnu rhan o’r hyn a  ysgrifennodd :

. . . Lewis Morris had two sons under Richard at School. They were quite evidently boarded by Richard in his house and Morris paid Richard £12 a year (for their tuition and keep). There is reason to believe that other boys were also boarded at the master’s house . . . Richard’s mother had the care of the boarders and she had a housemaid to assist her ; (she) also kept an inn and ran the house for her son. Taverns, I am well informed, in those days, were, in these areas at least, rather big houses. Now the house at Henblas, a fairly old building, is capacious and it is known that a tavern was kept there at the latest around the commencement of the 19th century, and inns are, generally speaking, establishments of long standing. In default of better established claims, I would incline to the view . . . that Richard’s home was more probably at the present Henblas in the face of it being at the material times a tavern and the fact that Richard kept boarders.