PENRY
,
JOHN
(
1854
-
1883
),
missionary under the L.M.S.
;
son of
John
and
Margaret
Penry
,
and b.
7 April 1854
at
Tir-mawr
,
Llandeilo
, he became a church member at
Tabernacle
,
Llandeilo
and later at
Providence
,
Llangadog, Carms.
, where, after a sojourn in
England
, he attended a preparatory school. He studied also at the
Lancashire College
, and was appointed by the
L.M.S.
for the central
Africa
mission. Ordained at
Llandeilo
on
11 April 1882
, he arrived at
Zanzibar
and proceeded as far as
Urambo
. Returning owing to ill-health, he died on his way to the coast, at
Kisokwi
,
21 April 1883
.
Bibliography:
-
G. Penar Griffith
,
Cenhadon Cymreig
;
-
E. Lewis Evans
,
Cymru a'r Gymdeithas Genhadol, sef hanes ei
Chychwyn
, 1945
.
Author:
Rev. Dr. Evan Lewis Evans, D.Th., (1898-1978), Pontardulais /
Swansea
