PRICE
,
BENJAMIN
(
Cymro Bach
;
1792
-
1854
),
Baptist minister and littérateur
;
b. at
Govilon
,
Llanwenarth
,
1792
, son of
Joseph
Price
(d.
1834
),
minister
of
Blaenau Gwent
, and
Hannah
his wife. His family moved to
Blaenavon
and it was there that he was baptized in
1817
and started to
preach
,
Sept. 1820
. He was admitted to the
Baptist Academy
at
Abergavenny
in
1822
and subsequently held the pastorates of
Kensington
,
Brecon
,
24 Nov. 1825-1828
;
Newtown
and
Caer-sws
(
1828-40
) (as
co-pastor
first with
John
Jones
and from
1833
onwards with
George
Thomas
, afterwards of the
Pontypool Academy
);
Dudley
(
1840-2
) (again as
co-pastor
, with
William
Rogers
, a native of
Blaenau Gwent
); and, finally,
Tredegar>
(
1842-4
). He retired in
1844
to become a
superintendent
for
Wales
of the
Baptist Missionary Society
, and in this post performed his most important life's work. He was a
frequent contributor to his denominational press
and several of his works were published, notably an extensive selection of essays under the title of
Y Cymro Bach
,
1855
, and
Lectures to the Working Classes
,
1851
. He was also the means of establishing in his denomination in
1848
an
Association of Aged Ministers
, but it failed to find lasting support. He retired in
1853
, and d. at
Bristol
,
25 June 1854
. He was buried at
Llanwenarth
.
Bibliography:
-
Y ‘Cymro Bach‘ sef casgliad o weithiau
awdurol y diweddar Barch. Benjamin Price
, Cardiff,
1855
;
-
Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig
, 1889-96
(2nd ed.), x, 761;
-
Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Nghymru
,
1893–1907
, iv, 167, 169;
-
Y Greal sef Cylchgrawn Misol at wasanaeth y
Bedyddwyr
,
1854
(191, 251), 1895 (1, 263, 311), 1896 (37, 150,263), 1897 (5);
-
Seren Gomer
,
1854
, 383;
-
Y Bedyddiwr
,
1854
, 266, 291;
-
Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion
Cymru
, 418;
-
Notable Welshmen (1700–1900)
,
1908
, 244;
-
Y Geninen
, 1894, 229.
Author:
Benjamin George Owens, M.A., Aberystwyth
