DAVIES, DAVID (1794 - 1856), Baptist minister and college tutor
Name: David Davies
Date of birth: 1794
Date of death: 1856
Gender : Male
Occupation: Baptist minister and college tutor
Area of activity: Education; Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
son of Benjamin Davies (died 1816), first minister of the Baptist church at Haverfordwest. He went to Abergavenny Baptist College in 1818, at the age of 18 (J. Rufus Williams, Hanes Athrofeydd y Bedyddwyr — but Ceitho gives 1794 as the year of his birth). After two years at Abergavenny, he went to Stepney Academy. In 1822 he was ordained assistant pastor at Evesham, later becoming pastor and remaining there till 1837, when he accepted a call from Haverfordwest. When the Baptist College there was opened (1 August 1839) he was placed in charge of it. He died 19 March 1856.