PHILLIPS, EDWARD (1716 - c. 1776), cleric

son of Edward Phillips of Llanfaredd, Radnorshire. He became a member of Jesus College, Oxford, 8 November 1734, 'at 18 years of age'; B.A. 1738. He was rector of Maesmynys, near Builth, 1740-76. Although, in all probability, he was at first opposed to Methodism, he invited John Wesley to Brecknock in 1743 and from that time on supported Methodism - both Wesleyan and Calvinistic.

Author

• Reverend Griffith Thomas Roberts, (1887 - 1977)

Sources

• Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford
• D. J. Odwyn Jones, Daniel Rowland, Llangeitho (Llandysul 1938), 46
• Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, iv, 39-40, 137, xxvi
• The Trevecka Letters, or the unpublished MSS. correspondence of Howell Harris and his contemporaries (1932), no. 12, 452, xxxii, 37, xxxiii, 8 et sqq.
• The Trevecka Letters, or the unpublished MSS. correspondence of Howell Harris and his contemporaries (1932), 878, 879
• Baker, Charles Wesley as Revealed by his Letters (London 1948), 62 et sqq.
• The journal of the Rev. John Wesley, enlarged from original mss., with notes from unpublished diaries, annotations, maps, and illustrations (1938) and The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley … The Early Journal, 1736-1739 (1910) (indexes)
• Maesmynys parish registers

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20748821

Published date: 1959

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