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DAVID CHARLES DAVIES (1826-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 864 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID See also:CHARLES See also:DAVIES (1826-1891)  , Welsh See also:nonconformist divine, was See also:born at See also:Aberystwyth on the 11th of May 1826, his See also:father being a See also:merchant and a See also:pioneer of Welsh Method-ism, his See also:mother a niece of See also:Thomas See also:Charles (q.v.) of See also:Bala . He was educated in his native See also:town by a noted schoolmaster, See also:John See also:Evans, at Bala See also:College, and at University College, See also:London, where he graduated B.A. in 1847 and M.A . (in See also:mathematics) in 1849 . He had already begun to preach, and after an evangelistic tour in See also:South See also:Wales supplied the See also:pulpit of the See also:English presbyterian See also:church at See also:Newtown for six months, and settled as pastor of the bilingual church at See also:Builth in 1851 . He returned to this See also:charge after a pastorate at See also:Liverpool (1853-1856), See also:left it again in 1858 for Newtown, and went in May 1859 to the Welsh church at Jewin See also:Crescent, London . Here he remained until 1876, and from that date till 1882, although living at See also:Bangor for reasons of See also:health, had the See also:chief oversight pf the church . In 1888 he accepted the principalship of the Calvinistic Methodist College at Trevecca in Brecknockshire . His See also:work here was successful, butshort; he died at Bangor on the 26th of See also:September 1891, and was buried at Aberystwyth . Though See also:Davies stood somewhat apart from the See also:main currents of thought both without and within his church, and was largely unknown to English audiences or readers, he exercised a strong See also:influence on Welsh See also:life and thought in the 19th See also:century . He was a serious student, especially of See also:anti-theistic positions, a See also:good See also:speaker, and a frequent contributor to Welsh theological See also:journals . Several of his articles have been collected and published, the most noteworthy being expositions on The First See also:Epistle of See also:Jahn (1889), See also:Ephesians (2 vols., 1896, 1901), See also:Psalms (1897), See also:Romans (1902); and The See also:Atonement and Intercession of See also:Christ (1899, English trans. by D . E .

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Jenkins, 19o1) .

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