GRIFFITHS, MORRIS (fl. 1766-1805) Methodist exhorter, afterwards Baptist minister, and hymn-writer

In 1766 he was a Methodist exhorter at Prendergast, near Haverfordwest; in 1776, when he called at Trevecka, he was a lay preacher. In 1779 he was baptized at Llangloffan and in 1788 was ordained one of the ministers of that church. He died in 1805. He is often confused with Morris Griffiths of Trefgarn (see the preceding article). He published: Marwnad … John Davies, Pregethwr yr efengyl yn Sir Benbro, c. 1765; Defnyddiol Hymnau i Breswylwyry Graig (Trevecka 1779); Llythyr Caredig, 1786; Egwyddorion Difinyddiaeth, 1789 - a kind of confession of faith, each point being followed by a bit of verse, and three hymns; and Dammeg, mewn Dull o Y mddiddan rhwng Credadyn a Mr. Ewyllys-Rhydd a Satan (Trevecka). According to Gwilym Lleyn, he also published Dull o Ymddiddan rhwng Gweinidog yr Efengyl a Disgybl ieuanc dan holiad in 1784. His hymns never achieved popularity.

Author

• Reverend Gomer Morgan Roberts, (1904 - 1993)

Sources

• David Jones, Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru (1839), 188, 192
• Joshua Thomas, Hanes y Bedyddwyr ymhlith y Cymry: o amser yr Apostolion, hyd y flwyddyn hon: yn ddwy ran (Caerfyrddin 1778) (1885 ed.), 537-8, 540
• Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, viii, 68-9, xviii, 29-30, 73-7, xxxiii, 47
• Y Cymmrodor, xlv, 38
• [See further Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, July 1952 on the subject of the two Morris Griffiths.]

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• Wikidata: Q20733973

Published date: 1959

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