GRIFFITHS
,
MORRIS
(
1721
-
1769
),
Independent minister
;
b. in
1721
at
Pen-y-bryn
,
Llangybi, Caerns.
Magdalen
, wife of
Robert
Jones
of
Rhos-lan
(
1745
-
1829
) (q.v.)
, was his brother's daughter. At one time he worked for
William
Prichard
(
1702
-
1773
) (q.v.)
of
Glasfryn Fawr
, and then began to
exhort
, meeting with persecution at the outset of his career. He was admitted to
Carmarthen Academy
in
1750
and ordained
minister
of
Trefgarn
and
Rhosycaerau, Pembs.
, in
1757
. He d.
17 Oct. 1769
and was buried in
Mathry
cemetery. He is often confused with
Morris
Griffiths
, the
hymnwriter
(see the next article). The writer of his elegy, however, says that he
‘breathed some little life into the cold recesses of Arvon,’
from which it may be gathered that he, and not the
hymn-writer
, was the
Morris
Griffiths
who was born at
Llangybi
.
Bibliography:
-
Robert Jones (Rhoslan)
,
Drych yr
AmseroeddY Llenor
(Rhoslan) , 1820; another ed. [1841]; 's ed. in , xv–xvi, 1898.
There is now a new edition ed.
(University of Wales Press, 1958)
, 94;
-
Ioan Griffiths
,
Marwnad Morris Griffiths
, 1769
,
1769
;
-
Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru
, iii, 18-19;
-
Y Dysgedydd
,
1862
, 306, et seq.;
-
Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid
Calfinaidd
, viii, 68, ix, 9;
-
Oriel Coleg Caerfyrddin
, 1909
, 247.
Author:
Rev. Gomer Morgan Roberts, M.A., (1904-93), Pont-rhyd-y-fen / St
Dogmael's / Llandybïe
