RICHARD(S), JOHN (1720 - 1764), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and poet

Name: John Richard (S)
Date of birth: 1720
Date of death: 1764
Gender: Male
Occupation: Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and poet
Area of activity: Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins

Born in 1720 at Bryniog Uchaf, Llanrwst, came under the influence of Methodism c. 1740, began to exhort c. 1749, and died in 1764. For his work, see Y Traethodydd, 1886 (278) and 1887 (122), and Owen Williams, Llyfryddiaeth Sir Ddinbych, 146; but the hymns attributed to him in Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry, 411, and in Owen Williams's list (above) are not his; they belong to John Richard(s) of Llansamlet (fl. 1743-84).

Author

Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)

Sources

Methodistiaeth Cymru (1851â€“6), i, 139-42
[correction by the Rev. Gomer M. Roberts ]

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q20804749

Published date: 1959

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