GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (1704 - 1747), early Welsh Moravian (one of the original members of the London Moravian congregation)

Name: William Griffith
Date of birth: 1704
Date of death: 1747
Gender: Male
Occupation: early Welsh Moravian (one of the original members of the London Moravian congregation)
Area of activity: Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins

Born at Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, February 1704 (possibly 1703). When a shoemaker in London, he became a Methodist, but by 1742 had joined the Moravians. In 1743 he was sent on a visit to Wales, and seems to have been the first Moravian missioner in Pembrokeshire. After holding various offices in the Brethren's church in London, he died while on a visit to Germany, at the very end of 1747.

Author

Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)

Sources

Y Cymmrodor, xlv, 1938, 21-5

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q20734619

Published date: 1959

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