REYNOLDS
,
JOHN
(
1759
-
1824
),
Baptist minister
;
b.
early in 1759
at
Treglemais, Pembs.
, the property of his father. He and a younger brother lost their parents
before 1772
. He was baptized at
Llangloffan
in
1778
, began to
preach
in
1785
, and was ordained, ‘by the laying of hands’ in
1788
; later he was to disapprove of this method. When
Felinganol Braptist church
was incorporated he tcok charge of it, in association with
John
Clun
, his manservant. He paid several visits to
North Wales
. He and others were appointed to speak in public in
Carmarthen
on moderate Calvinism at the time of the
Arminian ‘split’
in
1799
. He was
moderator
of the
south-western Association
in
1799
and again in
1802
. An attempt was made, unsuccessfully, to convict him of treason at the time of the
French landing
in
Fishguard
(
1797
). He d.
13 April 1824
, his widow dying five weeks afterwards.
Bibliography:
-
J. S. Jones
,
Hanes y Felinganol
;
-
D. Jones
,
Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru
,
1839
, 195;
-
Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr
Cymru
,
1930
;
-
E. H. Stuart Jones
,
The Last Invasion of Britain. [On the French
landing in Pembrokeshire, 1797. With plates and
maps.]
, 1950
, 212.
Author:
Rev. William Joseph Rhys, (1880-1967), Gelli, Rhondda / Treherbert
