The 1904–1905 Welsh revival was the largest Christian revival in Wales during the 20th century. It was one of the most dramatic in terms of its effect on the population, and triggered revivals in several other countries. The movement kept the churches of Wales filled for many years to come, seats being placed in the aisles in Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Swansea for twenty years or so, for example. Meanwhile, the Awakening swept the rest of Britain, Scandinavia, parts of Europe, North America, the mission fields of India and the Orient, Africa and Latin America. The Welsh revival has been traced as the root of the megachurches in the present era.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1863 to Wales and its people.
Thomas Jones, called "Thomas Jones of Denbigh" to differentiate him from namesakes, was a Welsh Methodist clergyman, writer, editor and poet, active in North Wales.
This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1800–1809 to Wales and its people.
Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet was a Welsh civil engineer and politician.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1806 to Wales and its people.
Evan Davies or Davis may refer to:
Events from the year 1750 in Wales.
Evan Davies was a Welsh Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament MP for Ebbw Vale.
David Bowen was a Welsh Baptist minister. He was born in Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire. In 1797 he was baptised at the local church; he began preaching at that same church in 1798. In 1806 he was ordained by Titus Lewis and Joshua Watkins and was appointed as joint-minister with Daniel Davies. In 1831 the congregation of the newly formed Capel Seion in Llanelli chose him to be its pastor, a position he held until his death in 1853.
Ben Davies was a 19th-century Welsh poet, and an Independent minister. He grew up in Dolgam, a farm where he received some early education at the local school. At the age of 13 however he entered employment as a miner in a local coal mine.
Dan Isaac Davies was a Welsh schoolmaster, one of the first to advocate the teaching of Welsh language in schools. His parents were hatter Isaac Davies, and his wife Rachel. They lived in the Llandovery area, where he attended a local school, and subsequently studied at Borough Road Training College. In 1858 became master of Mill Street school, ‘ Ysgol y Comin ’, Aberdare, where he encouraged his assistants to use Welsh as the medium of education. In 1867 he moved to a school in Swansea, before in 1868 being made Assistant Inspector of Schools, moving first to Cheltenham, then to Bristol. In 1883 he returned to Wales, to a position in the Merthyr Tydfil district.
Gellionnen Chapel is a Unitarian place of worship near Pontardawe, South Wales, United Kingdom. The chapel was first built in 1692 by Protestant dissenters, becoming Unitarian in the late 18th century. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella body for British Unitarians. Gellionnen Chapel is the oldest Dissenting chapel in the Swansea Valley, is one of the oldest surviving chapels in the region and is a Grade II* listed building.
Evan Davies was a Welsh educationalist. He was born in the Llanycrwys area of Carmarthenshire, and attended school at Llansawel, where he was taught by William Davies (1805–1859). He later studied in Alfred Day's school, Bristol, and in Glasgow, on a scholarship, from where he graduated and obtained his M.A.; in 1852 he was awarded an LL.D. For a time he taught at the new Voluntaryist college for teachers in Brecon (1846), where after a period of training, he was appointed principal. It later became "Swansea Training College", for women teachers, and Davies moved there with the institution, remaining for the rest of his life in Swansea. Despite the demise of the Voluntaryist movement and the resulting shortage of funds, Davies continued to run the institution as a private venture until 1867 when he passed it on to Dan Isaac Davies, instead moving to a career in law, eventually becoming a partner in a legal firm. While in Swansea, he became choirmaster at the New Congregational Church, until forced to abandon the role by ill-health.
Evan Davies (1842-1919) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer. He was born in Aberangell, Merionethshire. As a boy he entered employment as a farm worker, later becoming a quarryman. He was however keen to further his education, and after beginning preaching in 1865, in 1868 he moved to study at Bala College, following which, in 1873, he was ordained minister of Llangynog. He later moved for a period to a post at Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, followed by a move to Trefriw, where he remained till his death.
The 1859 Welsh revival was a Christian revival which occurred in South Wales and was documented by three Welsh religious historians:
James Davies was a Welsh Baptist minister from Clydey, Pembrokeshire. As a boy he attended school in Carmarthen, and services at Pant Teg Church. By 1793 he was living in the Ffynnonhenry area, and was ordained minister there in 1794, and also at Horeb church, Rhydargaeau. However, during the schism of 1799 the two churches parted company, Ffynnonhenry remaining Calvinistic, and Rhydargaeau becoming a General Baptist church under Davies's charge.
John Evan Davies (1850–1929) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister. As a boy he attended Llandeilo Grammar School in Wales. He later studied at Trefeca Calvinistic Methodist College and in Glasgow, graduating in 1880. He held an initial appointment in Llanelli, and further appointments in Jewin, London (1886–1911), and Llandeilo and Llanelli. He died in Gowerton in 1929.
John Gwynoro Davies was a Welsh Methodist minister. His father was minister Evan Davies. He was born in Llanpumpsaint, Carmarthenshire, and attended a local school, where he became a pupil-teacher. At just 20 years of age he was appointed headmaster of Dinas school, Rhondda. A few years later he decided to enter the Calvinistic Methodist ministry, and in 1877 entered Aberystwyth University College. He later moved to North Wales to study at Bala College. In 1887 he was appointed minister of Caersalem, Barmouth, and remained there until his death in 1935.
