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Nathaniel Jones (poet)
Nathaniel Jones
was a
Welsh
Calvinistic Methodist
minister
and
poet
.
Nathaniel
Jones
took his
bardic name
of "Cynhafal" from his
birthplace
of
Llangynhafal
, near
Ruthin
in
Denbighshire
, where
the church
is
dedicated
to
Saint Cynhafal
. He
worked
as a
tailor
, and later as a
sales
assistant
, before
becoming
a
preacher
in
1859
. He went on to the
Calvinistic
Methodist College
at
Bala
, becoming a minister at
Penrhyndeudraeth
in
1865
.
Works
Fy
Awenydd
Elias y Thesbiad
Y
Messiah
Charles
o'r Bala