DAFYDD (or DAVIES), MAURICE (fl. 1789), hymn-writer
Gender: Male
Occupation: hymn-writer
Area of activity: Poetry; Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
The very well-known Welsh hymn beginning ' Am graig i adeiladu … ' comes from a booklet of his published in 1789. He would seem to have been a member of the Congregational church at Bala.
See the discussion in J. Thickens, Emynau a'u Hawduriaid, 138-9.
Author
- Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)
Published date: 1959
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