Tag: Welsh ministers

• Trevor Owen Davies (1895–1966)

  

  A Farm Boy at Christ Church, Oxford, A Welsh Scholar in Public Life In 1920s Oxford, the halls of Christ Church were filled with the sons of the English landed elite. Among them sat an unlikely figure: a farm labourer from the Dyfi Valley who had traded his plough for Augustine. Trevor Owen Davies was…

  Antony David Davies

  23/02/2026

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• 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

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