MORRIS
,
CALEB
(
1800
-
1865
),
Congregational minister
;
b.
12 Aug. 1800
at
Parcyd
, in the parish of
Whitchurch, Pembs.
He was educated at
Cardigan
,
Haverfordwest
, and the
Carmarthen grammar school
. He was received into church membership in
Pen-y-groes, Pembs.
, when he was 14; it was there also that he commenced to
preach
later. He went to
Carmarthen Academy
in
1819
. In
1822
he received a call to
Narberth, Pembs.
, he was ordained there
2 April 1823
.
Morris
moved to
Fetter Lane
,
London
, in
1827
. In
1838
he was invited to accept the principalship of the
Independent College
,
Brecon
, but he refrained from undertaking the responsibility. Large crowds flocked to
Fetter Lane
to hear him. Owing to periods of physical weakness he was in the habit of returning to
Wales
to seek a renewal of his strength. He also sought for health in
Switzerland
and
Germany
but had to relinquish the care of his church and retire to
Pembrokeshire
where he d.
26 July 1865
. He possessed unusual gifts as a
preacher
and delighted in spiritual meditation. In spite of physical weakness he became one of the leading lights of the
London
pulpit.
Bibliography:
-
The Congregational Year Book
, 1846
ff
,
1866
;
-
D. Tyssil Evans
,
Cofiant a detholiad o bregethau y Parch
Caleb Morris, Fetter Lane, Llundain / The life and ministry
of the Rev. Caleb Morris who was the minister of the
Tabernacle, Narberth; and of Fetter Lane Chapel,
London
, Cardiff, 1900; English edition, 1902
,
1902.
Author:
Rev. John Dyfnallt Owen, M.A., (1873-1956), Aberystwyth
