Edward Owen Davies (Q66588)

Edward Owen Davies, Calvinistic Methodist minister and author, was born in Betws Gwerfyl Goch. He began his ministerial and theological training at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth in 1885 before continuing his studies at Mansfield College, Oxford, then at universities in Bonn, Heidelberg, Gottingen and Kiel. He was ordained in 1894 and ministered in Liverpool before being appointed lecturer at Bala Theological College in 1897, where he remained for the next ten years. He delivered the 1913 'Davies Lecture' on 'The Miracles of Jesus'. In 1919 he took up the post of general secretary of the reconstuction commission of the North Wales Association; Davies's work for the commission culminated in the guidance through the church's courts and the final passing through Parliament in 1933 of the Bill to amend the constitution of the church and to enlarge its powers . He served as moderator of the North Wales Association in 1922 and 1935 and as moderator of the General Assembly in 1928. From 1924 to 1926 he was secretary of the joint committee which prepared the Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodist hymn-book. He died at Bangor in 1936.