Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, EVAN (Myfyr Morganwg; 1801 - 1888), bard and 'archdruid' religions of the East; he believed that Christianity was but Druidism in a Jewish garb. In consequence, as he claimed to have succeeded to the post of archdruid after the death in 1847 of Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, he began, c. 1853, to hold religious and druidical services near the 'Maen Chwyf' (the Rocking Stone) at Pontypridd. These meetings were held at the time of the two equinoxes and
DAVIES, REES (1694? - 1767), Independent minister Born in Cardiganshire; according to a letter of his (Trevecka letter 100, 20 August 1737) to Howel Harris, he was 'kinsman' to Evan Davies (1694? - 1770), tutor of Carmarthen. At a date unknown to us, he transferred his church membership from Crug-y-maen, Cardiganshire, to Abergavenny. In Dr. John Evans's lists of 1718, a 'Rice Davies' appears as minister of an unidentified place called
EDWARDS, DAVID (1660 - 1716), Independent minister circuit, namely Crug-y-maen, Llwyn-rhys, and Cilgwyn. He died 29 September 1716, aged 56, and in his will left books to the ministers, Philip Pugh and Jenkin Jones (1695 - 1725) - (see Jones family of Llwyn-rhys), who were at the time his colleagues in the circuit. His grand-daughter Elinor married Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho.
EVANS, JOHN (1858 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and professor at the Memorial College, Brecon . When he was 12 years old he was apprenticed to a shopkeeper in Llangrannog. Three years later he went to work in a grocer's and clothier's shop in Beaufort, Monmouth. About 1877 he decided to become a candidate for the ministry and delivered his first sermon in Maen-y-groes chapel, near New Quay. He went to the school kept by C.H. Hughes in the vestry of Tywyn (Congl.) chapel, New Quay, and in 1881
JONES, JENKIN (1700? - 1742), Arminian minister Born at Trafle, Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, in 1700 (?). The family later moved to Bryngranod which was sufficiently near Crug-y-maen to be influenced by its radical tendencies. There is an entry in the Cilgwyn church register which reads: 'Jenkin Jones of Llwynrhydowen; ordained April 1726, obiit 1742.' We know nothing of his early life except that he was at Carmarthen Academy from 1720 to 1722
JONES, WILLIAM (1851 - 1931), Calvinistic Methodist minister ), Aberdulais, 1905-27; after which he resigned and went to live at Nesta, Bon-y-maen, Llansamlet. He died suddenly at Llanelly on Sunday morning, 26 July 1931, and was buried at Pen-twyn. He was moderator of the South Wales Association, 1915, and of the General Assembly, 1923. He was an extremely popular preacher, usually known as 'William Jones of Morriston.'
LLOYD, EDWARD (c. 1570 - 1648?) Llwyn-y-maen, belonged to a group of inter-related families of ancient Welsh lineage in north-eastern Powys who resisted the Reformation. His remote ancestor MEURIG LLWYD, from whom the surname is derived, had fought in the French wars of the later middle ages and acquired Llwyn-y-maen through marriage with the heiress of the line of Einion Efell of that place (died 1196), an illegitimate offshoot of the
MORGAN, DAVID LLOYD (1823 - 1892), naval surgeon Born at Rhos-maen, Llandeilo Fawr, 1823, son of David Morgan. He studied medicine at the London Hospital and S. Andrews University. Entering the Royal Navy in 1846 he became staff surgeon in 1854. During 1847-9 he served on the west coast of Africa, he went through the Crimean War, 1850-6, and was also with the Chinese land forces, 1857-61. He was medical officer for H.M.S. Euryalus during 1862-5
NICHOLAS, WILLIAM RHYS (1914 - 1996), minister and hymnwriter Independents in 1981-82, the title of his presidential address being 'Maen Prawf ein Cristnogaeth' (The Touchstone of our Christianity). He published two volumes of poetry, Cerdd a Charol (1969) and Cerddi Mawl (1980, with a new expanded edition in 1991), and a number of works of devotion. He is known primarily as one of the most prominent Welsh hymnwriters of the last quarter of the twentieth century. His
OWEN family Plas-du, attended (in company with Humphrey Llwyd) to the Diet of Augsburg (1566) and by whom he was drawn into plots on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots. Implication in the Ridolfi Plot drove him into hiding, first with the Lloyd s of Llwyn-y-maen and other recusant families round Oswestry, then via Spain to Brussels (1572), where, as a Spanish pensioner, he advised the Netherlands government on English affairs
PENRY, DAVID (1660? - 1721?) Dissenters met at Llwytcoed farm, within that parish. Still linked with Tirdwncyn, he christens a child there in 1708. In 1715, it is stated that he is also the minister of Crug-y-bar and Crug-y-maen, the latter in Cardiganshire. His will was proved in 1722, and it is evident that he farmed a tenement in Llandeilo Tal-y-bont, just across the river from his old home. He bequeathed his books, valued at £2
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1751 - 1825), Unitarian minister Born in 1751 at Waun-bwll near Glandŵr, Pembrokeshire, but after his marriage he farmed Pant-glas, Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire; subsequently he bought the farmstead of Pant-maen near Rhyd-y-parc, and was therefore currently known as ' the apostle of Pant-maen.' He was a member of Glandŵr church, and is said on doubtful authority to have been a preacher there. When the Arminian wing of Glandŵr

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