Davies, John (4)

an English Congregational minister, was born at Llangyfni, Carmarthenshire, Wales, August 30, 1769. He joined the Calvinistic Methodists in 1786; studied at Trevecca and Cheshunt colleges; was ordained at Spa Fields in 1796; settled first at Handsworth, and subsequently at Tetbury, Ludgershall, and Whitstable; in 1829 retired to Reading, but was soon after urged to accept the pastorate at Bracknell; Berkshire; thither he removed, and, after fourteen years of earnest labor, was disabled by paralysis, and died March 2, 1861. See (Lond.) Cong. Yearbook, 1862, page 227.