MORGAN, RICHARD (1743 - 1805) Independent minister
Date of birth: 1743
Date of death: 1805
Gender: Male
Occupation: Independent minister
Area of activity: Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
Born in 1743 at Ystrad-isaf, Ystradgynlais, Brecknock - his parents were members of Cwmllynfell congregation. As apprentice to a wood-turner, he joined the church at Tŷnewydd in the Swansea valley. He began to preach, and went to the school kept by Joseph Simmons, and thence to Abergavenny Academy (1765). On 28 September 1769 he was ordained pastor of Henllan Amgoed, Carmarthenshire, and its branches, and died there 10 February 1805, aged 62. He was a diligent, even an excessive, reader, reading the Bible in the original languages daily; in theology he was an uncompromising Calvinist, and would have no truck with the 'reasonableness' of his fellow- Independent John Roberts (1767 - 1834) of Llanbryn-mair. With Morgan Jones (1768 - 1835) of Tre-lech, he conducted energetic missions in the English parts of Pembrokeshire - with the full concurrence of John Williams (1762 - 1802), the Evangelical vicar of Begelly ].
Author
- Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)
- Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, iii, 343-4, 362-3
- Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru (1870)
- A History of Carmarthenshire, ii, 234, 251
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20734296
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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