WILLIAMS, JOHN (1825 - 1904), cleric and author
22.12.2023Name: John Williams
Date of birth: 1825
Date of death: 1904
Gender : Male
Occupation: cleric and author
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Religion
Author: William Llewelyn Davies
a Montgomeryshire man. Ordained in 1868 by the bishop of Llandaff, he was curate at Tredegar, Monmouth, 1868-76, spending the succeeding five years in London, where he acted as missionary among London Welsh people; he also appears to have worked in the parish of S. Stephen’s, Spitalfields. In 1881 he returned to Wales as curate of Newcastle, Glamorgan, becoming, in 1883, rector of Penegoes, Montgomeryshire. He wrote Cymry Llundain (Caernarvon, c. 1867), A Defence of the Welsh People against the Misrepresentations of their English Critics (Caernarvon, 1869?), The Early British Church (London, 1877), Notes and Narratives of … Missionary and Ministerial Labours (Machynlleth, 1885). He died at the end of September or early in October 1904.
