Evan Davies (Calvinistic Methodist minister)


Evan Davies 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.
His written works include a number of short religious books, his biography of Joseph Thomas of Carno, a short ‘Life’ of Dafydd Dafis of Cywarch , and a selection of verse.
He died, aged 77, in 1919.