PARRY, DAVID (1760 - 1821), Calvinistic Methodist minister

Born 13 February 1760 at Llwyndiriad, Caeo, Carmarthenshire, son of Dafydd Parry. As a young man, he joined the Methodists and began to preach in 1778, after which he was a student at lady Huntingdon's college at Trevecka for a short time. In 1784 he married Margaret Evans of Llofft-wen, Llanwrtyd, and c. 1797-8 went to live at Cilfach, Llanwrtyd. He was one of the first batch of ministers ordained by the Methodists at Llandeilo in 1811. He was a very notable preacher and his services were frequently in demand at the Associations. He died 27 April 1821, and was buried inside Rhydybere chapel.

Author

• Reverend Gomer Morgan Roberts, (1904 - 1993)

Sources

• Y Drysorfa, 1834, 65
• 'Hen Bregethwyr Brycheiniog,' Y Cylchgrawn: sef cyfrwng gwybodaeth grefydol a buddiol ac hanesion eglwysig a gwladol, 1884, pp.86-88
• Methodistiaeth Cymru (1851–6), iii, 335
• J. Evans, Biographical Dictionary of Ministers and Preachers of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Body … to the close of the year 1850 (1907), 234
• J.M. Jones, Ordeiniad 1811 ymysg y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd (1911), 147

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20732878

Published date: 1959

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