DAFYDD, RICHARD WILLIAM (fl. 1740-1752), Methodist exhorter

A native of Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, and a brother of David Williams of Lisworney (1717 - 1792). He is said to have preached in Anglesey in 1740 and to have been roughly handled there. It is certain that he was exhorting in 1742 and that, in 1743, when the Association met at Llanddeusant, he was appointed to supervise the societies in Carmarthenshire. He took an active part in the revolt headed by John Richard of Llansamlet against the dispositions made by the Association in 1743, and both Whitefield and Howel Harris wrote remonstrating with him. In 1744 he was appointed visitor to the societies at Gorseinon and Pembrey. He is known to have been at Llandyfaelog in 1744 and Thomas William (1717 - 1765) met him there in 1747. We catch a last glimpse of him in 1752 when he was preaching at Trevecka. He appears to have settled in Swansea where he was one of the pillars of the early Methodist society in that town.

Author

• Reverend Gomer Morgan Roberts, (1904 - 1993)

Sources

• H. Bevan, Ychydig hanes neu goffadwriaeth am amryw bethau neillduol a gymmerasant le ymhlith corph y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd yn ac o'u dechreuad, sef oddiar yr amser y daeth Mr. Howel Harries i bregethu yn ei droion cyntaf i amryw barthau o Sir Forganwg a'i chyffiniau (Abertawe 1838), 7
• John Pritchard, Methodistiaeth Môn (1888), 23
• Methodistiaeth Cymru (1851–6), i, 115, iii, 29
• J. Morgan Jones and W. Morgan, Y Tadau Methodistaidd (1895-1897), i, 212
• R. Bennett, Methodistiaeth Trefaldwyn Uchaf, 1738–1852 (1929), 224
• Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, xxi, 74, xxv, 52, xxvii, 15, 140
• J. Evans, Biographical Dictionary of Ministers and Preachers of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Body … to the close of the year 1850 (1907), 29
• T. Beynon, Treftadaeth y Cenfu a Maes Gwenllian (1941), 121

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Richard William Dafydd

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20734306

Published date: 1959

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