Tag: Wales in the eighteenth century

• Daniel Rowland (1713–1790), The Great Evangelist of Wales, and the Making of Modern Welsh Nonconformity

  

  There are certain names in Welsh religious history which do not merely belong to their century, they reshape the centuries that follow. Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho is one of those figures. In the eighteenth century, when Wales was still largely rural, linguistically distinct, and socially conservative, Rowland became the most powerful preacher the nation had…

  Antony David Davies

  07/02/2026

  Religion

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