WILLIAMS
,
JAMES
(
1812
-
1893
),
Calvinistic Methodist missionary
in
Brittany
;
b. at
Laugharne
5 Nov. 1812
; a
smith
by trade. He joined the
Calvinistic Methodists
when
Lewis
Edwards
(q.v.)
was
minister
there; he began to
preach
about
1835
, and in
1837
entered the new
Calvinistic Methodist college
at
Bala
, walking every inch of the way from
Laugharne
to
Bala
. In
1842
he was sent to
Brittany
to
open up a mission
there; he resigned in
1862
, but re-visited
Brittany
in
1877
and
1882
; for details of his work there and the difficulties he encountered, see
J. H.
Morris
's book, mentioned below. From
1869
on, he lived at
Chester
, where he d.
1 Sept. 1893
; he had m.
Catherine
, daughter of the
Rev.
Richard
Jones,
1784
-
1840
, of
Bala
, and was buried in her grave in
Llanycil
churchyard.
Bibliography:
-
J. Hughes Morris
,
The history of the Welsh Calvinistic
Methodists' foreign mission to the end of the year
1904
, 1910
;
-
Bywyd a Llythyrau y Diweddar Barch. Lewis
Edwards, M.A., D.D.
, Liverpool, 1901
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
