WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1818 - 1880), Independent minister

Name: Edward Williams
Date of birth: 1818
Date of death: 1880
Gender: Male
Occupation: Independent minister
Area of activity: Religion
Author: Richard Griffith Owen

Born 29 December 1818 at Blaenavon, Monmouthshire; his father came from the Mynydd-bach district, Swansea; his mother had French connections. He began to preach in 1843, and received a call to minister to Dinas Mawddwy and its district; there he was ordained 27 April 1848. He died 8 April 1880, and was buried in Dinas Mawddwy cemetery. He published Cofiant a Phregethau … D. Milton Davies (Llanfyllin, 1871). He is best known as the secretary of Bala Independent College from 1869 to 1876, the most troubled period in all its history.

Author

Reverend Richard Griffith Owen, (1890 - 1973)

Sources

Josiah Jones, Cofiant y Parch. E. Williams, Dinas Mawddwy (Machynlleth 1886), 1886
Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, i, 151, 429

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q20821123

Published date: 1959

Article Copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/

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