Nathaniel Jones (poet)
Nathaniel Jones (19 April 1832 – 14 December 1905) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister and poet.
Nathaniel Jones took his bardic name of "Cynhafal" from his birthplace of Llangynhafal, near Ruthin in Denbighshire, where the church is dedicated to . He worked as a tailor, and later as a sales assistant, before becoming a preacher in 1859. He went on to the Calvinistic Methodist College at Bala, becoming a minister at Penrhyndeudraeth in 1865.
Works[]
- Fy Awenydd (1859)
- Elias y Thesbiad (1869)
- Y Messiah (1895)
- Charles o'r Bala (1898)
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Categories:
- 1832 births
- 1905 deaths
- Welsh-language poets
- Llangynhafal
- 19th-century poets
- British poet stubs
- Welsh writer stubs