JONES, GRIFFITH (1808 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister

Son of John Humphreys, Ty'n-y-clawdd, Tre-garth, Caernarfonshire. He had a short course of schooling at Carneddi and Llanfairfechan and was taught boot-making by his father. He began to preach in 1832. After spending about a year at Bala College, and after being received into the Association in 1834, he was ordained in 1845. He refused to be transferred from his native village, where he died 18 April 1886.

In 1875 he received a call to be pastor of the C.M. church at Tre-garth. His sagacity and wit soon became widely known, and he was often called upon to preach and to lecture in all parts of Wales.

Author

• Reverend Richard Thomas, (1872 - 1950)

Sources

• J. Mostyn Jones, Cofiant, pregethau, a ffraethebion, y Parch, Griffith Jones, Tregarth (Bala 1887), 1887
• Richard Owen, Adgofion am y diweddar Barch. Griffith Jones, Tre'rgarth yn cynwys hanes ei fywyd, casgliad cryno o'i ffraethebion, anerchiadau, ymddiddanion crefyddol, crynhodeb o'i ddarlith ar y "Ddau Frawd", ei lythyrau, ei angau, a'i gladdedigaeth, ynghyda llythyrau (Caernarfon 1886)
• W. Hobley, Hanes Methodistiaeth Arfon, v, 79-83
• Y Drysorfa, 1886, 193

Images

• Hugh Humphreys, Rev. Griffith Jones Calvinistic Minister of Tregarth, Bangor
• NLW: Griffith Jones, Tregarth, Llyfr Ffoto T Llechid Jones Album, 8v.

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733096

Published date: 1959

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