WILLIAMS, MORGAN (c. 1750 - 1830), cleric

Name: Morgan Williams
Date of birth: c. 1750
Date of death: 1830
Gender: Male
Occupation: cleric
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Religion
Author: Rhiannon Francis Roberts

Editor of two booklets entitled Collectanea; neu Gasgliadau o Flodeuog-Waith yr Awduron Brytanaidd (Carmarthen, 1820, 1823). He may be the ' Morgan Williams of Penderin ' who was ordained deacon 14 August 1774 and priest 6 August 1775, in which case he became curate of Aberedw, Radnorshire, in 1775, and curate of Vaynor and Taf-fechan, Brecknock, in 1788. It is as curate of Bayvil, Pembrokeshire, that he is generally known; he was also curate of Eglwyswrw in the same county. He died at a place called Quarry, near Eglwyswrw, aged 80 years, and was buried in that parish 14 June 1830.

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Published date: 1959

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