Davies, Daniel (5), Dd

Davies, Daniel (5), D.D.

a Welsh Baptist minister, was born in Carmarthenshire, December 15, 1797. He became blind at the age of seven; studied for a time in the Liverpool College for the Blind, and for a short period was a preacher among the Welsh Presbyterians. At the age of twenty-three he became a Baptist, and for five years was pastor of a Welsh Church in London, when he removed to Bethesda, Swansea, and there had charge of the church for thirty years. In 1855 he removed to Cardigan, where he was pastor for several years. He died in Glamorganshire, but the exact date does not appear. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 309. (J.C.S.)