YOUNG
,
DAVID
(
1844
-
1913
),
Wesleyan minister and historian
;
b. near
Haverfordwest
,
3 Nov. 1844
. While he was still young the family moved to
Pontlotyn
where he, too,
worked in the colliery
for a time. He was admitted to the
Wesleyan ministry
in
1868
and served in the following circuits:
Carmarthen
(
1868
),
Aberystwyth
(
1869-71
),
Machynlleth
(
1872
),
Merthyr Tydfil
(
1873-5
),
Aberdare
(
1876-8
),
Llanidloes
(
1879-81
),
Cardiff
(
1882-4
), and
Ferndale
(
1885-7
). He was elected
chairman
of the
South Wales province
in
1880
. He pleaded for the union of the
Welsh
and
English Wesleyan churches
in
South Wales
— ‘the amalgamation’ as it was called — and when he discovered how determined the opposition of his fellow-countrymen in the province was to this move, he went over to the
English
side of the work. After some time in the
Loudon Square
,
Cardiff
(
1888-90
),
English
circuit, he laboured in some of the most important circuits in
England
. He
took a leading part in matters connected with temperance and education
(especially in connexion with the founding of
Cardiff University College
), and he is said to have shown unusual ability as an
organiser
in his circuits. In
1893
he
published his history of Wesleyanism in Wales
,
The Origin and History of Methodism in Wales
; see also
Proc. Wesley Hist. Soc.
, ix. He d. at
Margate
,
4 Aug. 1913
.
Bibliography:
-
Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd
, Dolgellau
,
1913
, 358.
Author:
Rev. Griffith Thomas Roberts, M.A., (1887-1977), Tregarth, Bangor /
Talsarnau
