Richard Davis

DAVIS, Richard. b. Cardiganshire, Wales, 1658; d. Rothwell, Northamptonshire, 1714. WRS (W.R. Stevenson) in JJ, p. 281 notes that he was well educated, and a person who was for some years master of a school in London. He must have become an Independent Church minister at some point, because he was invited by the congregation at Rothwell to become their pastor. He remained there for 24 years, which indicates a pastorate from 1690 onwards.  Stevenson described him as ‘a remarkable man’, who anticipated John Wesley* in the use of lay preachers as local evangelists. He published Hymns Composed on Several Subjects, and on Divers Occasions (1694). This was the Second Edition: the First Edition is...

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