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1 - 12 of 222 for "1877"

  • ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), Congregationalist divine College, Aberystwyth, where he graduated (B.A. Lond.) in 1877. In 1878 he was ordained minister of Hawen and Bryngwenith, Cardiganshire, and it was then that he first demonstrated his courage and intellectual independence. Before his time, Wales had not experienced that revolution in religious doctrine which, having its inception in Germany, had slowly made its way to England. Adams was the prophet of
  • AMBROSE, WILLIAM (Emrys; 1813 - 1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur Colleges were published in 1862 under the pseudonym Phineas, articles which caused considerable agitation concerning the college at Bala and resulted in the so-called 'War of the Two Constitutions' (1877-85) see Michael D. Jones. It was in this monthly, too, that his well-known recollections of his ministry were published. He is given an honourable place among the poets and littérateurs of the 19th
  • BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors a new Salvation Army Citadel in Merthyr was laid in memory of him in 1936 and he is also commemorated by the J.M. Berry Technical College which was built by his eldest son. HENRY SEYMOUR BERRY, 1st Baron BUCKLAND (1877 - 1928) industrialist Business and Industry; their eldest son, born 17 September 1877 in Gwaelod-y-garth, Merthyr Tydfil. In 1892 he was a monitor at Abermorlais Boys' School and
  • BLACKWELL, HENRY (1851 - 1928), bookbinder and bookseller, bibliographer and biographer , appears in the Liverpool directory as a bookbinder, his address being 8 Haliburton Street, Toxteth Park, with a shop at Chatham Buildings, 25 South John Street. Of Henry's education little is known except that he attended S. Paul's School, Liverpool. Blackwell went to New York in September 1877; in Y Wasg (Pittsburg) for 21 May 1886, he is described as having the supervision of a large bindery
  • BRISCOE, THOMAS (1813 - 1895), cleric and scholar ; vicar of Holyhead, 1858-95; surrogate, 1858; chancellor of Bangor cathedral, 1877. Briscoe was an excellent scholar in ancient and modern languages, including Welsh. In 1851 he translated into Welsh from the German, Ellendorff's 1st Petrus in Rom und Bischof der Romischen Kirche gewesen? He also translated the following O.T. books from the Hebrew : Isaiah 1853, Job 1854, Psalms and Proverbs 1855, and
  • CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician James Callaghan was born on 27 March 1912 at 38 Funtington Road, Copnor, Portsmouth, the second of two children of James Callaghan (1877-1921), a sailor, and his wife Charlotte (née Cundy, 1879-1961). His father was of Irish descent, and ran away from home as a boy to join the navy, changing his surname from Garogher to Callaghan so that he could not be traced. His mother came from a devout
  • DANIEL, EVAN (1837 - 1904), cleric and educationist . In 1894 he became vicar of Horsham, where he died 27 May 1904; he was married, and had nine children. Of his numerous textbooks, the most successful was The Prayer-Book, its History and Contents, 1877, which ran to twenty editions in his lifetime. He was honorary canon of Rochester
  • DAVIES, BEN (1878 - 1958), Independent minister , near Carmarthen who were in the lineage of Samuel Bowen, Macclesfield (1799 - 1877. They had one daughter, Arianwen, and three sons, Elwyn, Alun and Hywel. He began his ministry in the churches of Siloh, Pontardulais, and Hen Gapel, Llanelli. In 1907 he went to Hermon, Plas-marl, Swansea and remained there until 1914. He served in Seion, Llandysul from 1914 to 1924. He moved to Capel Newydd
  • DAVIES, CHARLES (1849 - 1927), Baptist minister Born at Llwynhendy, 3 November 1849, son of Daniel and Margaret Davies. He studied at the Graig Academy, Swansea, a grammar school managed by G. P. Evans, minister of York Place, Swansea, and was later admitted to the Baptist College, Llangollen. He was ordained in 1870 and accepted charge of Penuel, Bangor. In 1877 he moved to Liverpool to take charge of Everton Village Baptist church; in 1888
  • DAVIES, DAN ISAAC (1839 - 1887), a pioneer of the teaching of Welsh in schools (1826 - 1872) at Swansea, but was in 1868 made assistant inspector of schools, removing in 1870 to Cheltenham and in 1877 to Bristol. In 1882 (though his actual removal took place in 1883) he was posted to the Merthyr Tydfil district (under William Edwards, 1851 - 1940), but lived at Cardiff. His exile had deepened his love for Welsh, and he now sought to have it taught (not merely used) in the
  • DAVIES, Sir DAVID (1792 - 1865), physician king William IV and Adelaide. He was knighted by Victoria soon after she ascended the throne. Davies married, on 8th February 1819, Letitia Maria, daughter of John Williams ('yr hen Syr,' 1745/6 - 1818); they had four children - (a) Samuel Price; (b) (Sir) Robert Henry (1824 - 1902), officer in the Indian Civil Service, mainly in the Punjab - from 1871 to 1877 he was governor of that province - he
  • DAVIES, DAVID (1849 - 1926), Baptist minister and author at Cardiff, but removed in 1877 to Weston-super-mare, where he published (1883) Echoes from the Welsh Hills. This book brought him the personal friendship of C. H. Spurgeon, and in 1884 he became pastor of Regent's Park church. Domestic bereavement and ill health compelled him to leave London in 1887 for Brighton, where he ministered for twenty-one years - but he frequently deputized for Spurgeon