PRICE, BENJAMIN (Cymro Bach; 1792 - 1854), Baptist minister and littérateur

Born at Govilon, Llanwenarth, 1792, son of Joseph Price (died 1834), minister of Blaenau Gwent, and Hannah his wife. His family moved to Blaenavon and it was there that he was baptized in 1817 and started to preach, September 1820. He was admitted to the Baptist Academy at Abergavenny in 1822 and subsequently held the pastorates of Kensington, Brecon, 24 November 1825-1828; Newtown and Caer-sws (1828-40) (as co-pastor first with John Jones and from 1833 onwards with George Thomas, afterwards of the Pontypool Academy); Dudley (1840-2) (again as co-pastor, with William Rogers, a native of Blaenau Gwent); and, finally, Tredegar (1842-4). He retired in 1844 to become a superintendent for Wales of the Baptist Missionary Society, and in this post performed his most important life's work. He was a frequent contributor to his denominational press and several of his works were published, notably an extensive selection of essays under the title of Y Cymro Bach, 1855, and Lectures to the Working Classes, 1851. He was also the means of establishing in his denomination in 1848 an Association of Aged Ministers, but it failed to find lasting support. He retired in 1853, and died at Bristol, 25 June 1854. He was buried at Llanwenarth.

Author

• Benjamin George Owens

Sources

• Y 'Cymro Bach' sef casgliad o weithiau awdurol y diweddar Barch. Benjamin Price (Cardiff 1855)
• Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig (1889-96) (2nd ed.), x, 761
• Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Nghymru, iv, 167, 169
• Y Greal sef Cylchgrawn Misol at wasanaeth y Bedyddwyr, 1854 (191, 251), 1895 (1, 263, 311), 1896 (37, 150,263), 1897 (5)
• Seren Gomer, 1854, 383
• Y Bedyddiwr, 1854, 266, 291
• Josiah Thomas Jones, Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru (Aberdâr 1867-70), 418
• Notable Welshmen (1700–1900) (1908), 244
• Y Geninen, 1894, 229

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q28361346

Published date: 1959

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