Excerpt from Biographical Dictionary of Ministers and Preachers of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Body The material of this volume has been gathered together and placed in order by the writer from the interest he has taken in Welsh Calvinistic Methodism and its Ministers from his childhood. His earliest recollections are interwoven with Methodist history. The home of his parents was always open to the public servants of the Lord who came to Brecon on their preaching itinerancies in connection with this section of His vineyard, and thus Calvinistic Methodism became a fascination to him early in life. His recollection is fairly vivid of many of the ministers who preached at the Struet Chapel, Brecon, about the year 1837 and onward, especially of those who were members of the Breconshire Monthly Meeting, such as Watkin Edward, William Havard, Thomas Elias, Evan Harries, Job Thomas, David Davies, Trecastle, and John Griffiths, who afterwards became a Clergyman, ind lived for some years near Pontypridd. He is one of the few still living who were present at the opening of Trevecca College, and remembers well many incidents in connection therewith. It occurred to the writer some time since that a volume such as this, would be interesting to many, and would serve to keep in remembrance the names of some worthy men who had served their Master and Methodism well, but who would otherwise be forgotten, and are indeed already little known. His chief regret is that so many of the preachers have passed away with little or nothing more than their names recorded. Doubtless several are omitted from this work who should have been included, and possibly more definite information might be given of others than the writer has been able to supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.