DAVIES
,
DAVID
(
1764?
-
1828
),
Independent minister and Academy tutor
;
b. near
Llansawel, Carms.
; his age when he entered
Carmarthen
in
1783
is given as 19. He left the
Academy
in
1785
, and was ordained minister of
Llan-y-bri
. From
1795 to 1813
he shared the teaching at
Carmarthen
with
David
Peter
(q.v.)
, but charges of immorality brought against him, though not proven, brought his career there to an end; and though he continued in the pastorate of
Llan-y-bri
, his relations with his congregation had been unsettled; indeed the majority
left the church to found another at
Capel Newydd
. He was also regarded by strict
Calvinists
as unorthodox. He d.
27 Nov. 1828
— he
fell from his horse
into a brook near
Rhyd-y-gors
, and was
drowned
. He had been twice m.
Bibliography:
-
Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru
, iii, 385, 387-8.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
