Thomas Charles Williams (28 August 1868 – 29 September 1927) was a

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Calvinistic Methodist Calvinistic Methodists were born out of the 18th-century Welsh Methodist revival and survive as a body of Christians now forming the Presbyterian Church of Wales. Calvinistic Methodism became a major denomination in Wales, growing rapidly in the 1 ...

minister, who served as Moderator of the denomination's General Assembly.

Life

Williams, who was born on 28 August 1868 in

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, north

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, was the son of a Welsh Anglican priest; his mother's father, and four of her brothers, were also clergymen. He studied at

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, graduating in 1897, and later obtained a Doctorate of Divinity degree from the

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. After leaving Oxford, he moved to Menai Bridge and served as the minister of the

church there until his death on 29 September 1927. He preached in both English and

, and served as Moderator of the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association (1918–19) and as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Calvinistic Methodists (1921–22).

References

1868 births 1927 deaths Calvinistic Methodists Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 20th-century Welsh Methodist ministers 19th-century Welsh Methodist ministers {{Wales-bio-stub