MORRIS, JOHN (1813 - 1896), Independent college principal

Name: John Morris
Date of birth: 1813
Date of death: 1896
Gender: Male
Occupation: Independent college principal
Area of activity: Education; Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins

Born at Carmarthen in 1813. He was intended for the law, but turned to preaching, went to the grammar school of David Peter at Carmarthen, and thence (1833) to Blackburn Independent College. He was pastor at Saddleworth (1837-42) and Morley (1842-54). On the resignation of Henry Griffiths, he was appointed principal of Brecon Independent College in 1854, which in 1869 was removed to its buildings at Brecon. In 1879 he was elected chairman of the Union of Welsh Independents. He died at Brecon, very suddenly, 27 November 1896.

Author

Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)

Sources

Album Aberhonddu … o'r flwyddyn 1755 hyd 1880 (1898), 113-5
G. D. Owen, Ysgolion a Cholegau yr Annibynwyr (1939), 125-9

Additional Links

Wikidata: Q20733571

Published date: 1959

Article Copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/

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