Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), Congregationalist divine feature of his mind and character, namely his passionate devotion to ethics. The root of his hostility to the Calvinistic views (of arbitrary divine sovereignty, imputed righteousness, vicarious atonement, and legal justification) was his fear that all these undermined morality. In 1913 he was chairman of the Union of Welsh Independents. In his last book, Yr Eglwys a Gwareiddiad Diweddar, 1914, he moves
ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian Born at Ty'nsarn, Llawr-y-glyn, Montgomeryshire, 4 September 1848, the son of Elizabeth Ashton. When he was about 9 years old he began to receive instruction from one John Jones who kept school for three months at a time in the local Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodist chapels. At the age of 12 Ashton went to work in the lead mines of Dylife, an occupation which he soon found uncongenial. Leaving
BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, that it was his cousin William Crawshay I, of London, the then proprietor of Cyfarthfa, who prevented Crawshay Bailey from continuing in possession. It was Crawshay Bailey who constructed the tramway from Rhymney to Bassaleg, and this appears to confirm the tradition that he was connected with the Rhymney iron-works. During 1835, when the Calvinistic Methodist Association of South Wales held its
BARHAM, DIANA (1763 - 1823), peeress in her own right, 1813, benefactress of the evangelical movement was not always happy, but she was also able to enlist the support of the Independents. She died 12 April 1823 at Fairy Hill, Gower. Some years after her death her son Charles, lord Barham - afterwards lord Gainsborough - made over the chapels to trustees. Of the six chapels built by her, two still belong to the Calvinistic Methodists and four to the Independents.
BENNETT, RICHARD (1860 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist historian
BEVAN, HOPKIN (1765 - 1839), Calvinistic Methodist minister
BEYNON, TOM (1886 - 1961), minister (Presb.), historian and author Emlyn grammar school, and Bala Theological College. He was ordained in 1916 and was pastor of Tabernacl, Blaengwynfi, Glamorganshire (1916-33), and Horeb and Gosen near Aberystwyth (1933-51). He married, 1922, Eleanor Annie Whittaker of Caerau, Maesteg. He took an interest in the history of Wales, particularly the history of Calvinistic Methodism in Wales, and wrote regularly for Y Goleuad, Y Drysorfa
BRYAN, JOHN (1776 - 1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister experience of conversion in December 1798 and joined the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists at Chester, but he soon transferred his membership to the Octagon, the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the city. In February 1800 he began to preach as a local preacher, and during the next eighteen months he gave useful assistance to Owen Davies and John Hughes, the two missionaries appointed by the Methodist conference to
CADWALADR, DAFYDD (1752 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher
CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister
CHARLES, DAVID (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer
CHARLES, DAVID (1803 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymnist in the South in 1853. In 1823 he edited and published a monthly magazine, Yr Addysgydd : this contained hymns of his, both original and translated. He was mainly responsible for the editorial work in connection with the collection of hymns published in 1841 for the use of the Calvinistic Methodist connexion, and some of his hymns retain their popularity to this day. He married (1) Sarah, daughter

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