JONES, LEWIS (1808 - 1854), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author

Name: Lewis Jones
Date of birth: 1808
Date of death: 1854
Gender: Male
Occupation: Calvinistic Methodist minister and author
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins

Born at Melin Cae'r Berllan, Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Meironnydd. When a lad, he went to Bala to assist in bookbinding, under Robert Saunderson. He began preaching; went to the school kept by John Hughes (1796 - 1860) at Wrexham; and was ordained in 1838. He lived in the house attached to Llwyneinion chapel, and there he died, 29 March 1854, aged 46; he was buried in the graveyard of Llidiardau C.M. chapel.

He was the son-in-law of the hymn-writer William Edwards, 1773 - 1853.

A copious writer, he published in 1841 a biography of the Rev. Richard Jones (1784 - 1840) of Bala, on whom see Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru and William Williams, Methodistiaeth Dwyrain Meirionydd, 577-9; besides this, he published other books. There are good articles by him in Y Drysorfa; and he was chiefly responsible for the little monthly Y Geiniogwerth (1847-51) and its short-lived continuation Y Methodist (1851).

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Published date: 1959

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