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    Office of Divinity Tutor . His age and growing infirmities compelling him to resign in the summer following , Dr . Jenkins was appointed by the Presbyterian Board to succeed him as sole tutor . Previously to his removal to Carmarthen Dr . Jenkins had kept a school at Llahfyllyn , in North Wales , where the late Dr . Abraham Rees was his scholar . The

    Carmarthen Academy was at this time in high reputation . Among Mr . Davis ' s contemporaries were many ministers who afterwards held very respectable situations both in Wales and in England , besides many who have acquired eminence as clergymen in the Establishment ; for it was then customary to educate in this institution young men designed for orders

    in the church . In the number of the Dissenting ministers may be named the late Rev . Matthew Anstis , of Bridport ; Rev . W . Howell , for some time tutor of the same Academy at Swansea ; the Rev . Abel Edwards ; Mr . John Philipps , brother of the late Mr . Philipps , of Clapham , who went to the bar , and was one of Mr . Fox ' s counsel in his

    celebrated Westminster contest ; and the Rev . Josiah Rees , of Gelligron , in Glamorganshire . These all preceded him to the grave . Three survive of his Dissenting fellow-students , the Rev . John Davies , of London , the Rev . Theophilus Edwards , of Taunton , and the Rev . John Evans , of Stockton-upon-Tees . Among the survivors of his clerical

    fellow-students may be enumerated the Rev . Mr . Jones , the estimable clergyman of Lewisham , in Kent , and the venerable Archdeacon Beynon , of Golden Grove , in Carmarthenshire , who has been his intimate and steady friend through life . Soon after completing his studies at the Academy , Mr . Davis accepted ( on the 1 st of January , 1769 , ) an unanimous invitation from the congregations under

    his care , to be the co-pastor of the late Rev . David Lloyd , father of Dr , Charles Lloyd , of London , a man of pre-eminent talents , and in his day the most distinguished of the Presbyterian ministers of South Wales . Mr . Lloyd died on the 4 th of February , 1779 , universally respected , leaving behind him a professional reputation , which yet survives in the churches of the Principality .

    Some years afterwards , Mr . Richard Lloyd , a son of Mr . David Lloyd , was associated with Mr . Davis as his colleague . He inherited his father ' s talents and popularity . On the removal of Mr . Robert Gentleman from Carmarthen , he was chosen " to succeed ' him , and here he died in the prime of life and the zenith of

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    his popularity . * Mr . Davis united to the laborious duties of a Welsh Dissenting minister , officiating to three or four distant congregations , the occupation of a schoolmaster . From early life he had accustomed himself to tuition , having been for some time assistant in Dr . Jenkins ' s school whilst he was a student at

    Carmarthen . He was deemed a very correct and sound Greek and Latin scholar , and an excellent and successful teacher . It may probably be said of him with great truth , that no other individual in the Principality ever made more good scholars . His pupils were not confined to the Dissenters . A considerable number

    of the most learned and respectable among the Welsh clergy owed their eminence in a great degree to his instructions . For many years a large proportion of the candidates for orders in the diocese of St . David's were young men from his school . Dr . Horsley , after coming to that see , was soon apprized of this fact . The candidates were

    universally found to pass creditably through their examination ; but it was not to be longer endured that the clergy should be indebted to Dissenters for their education . His Lordship apprehended that pupils coming from such quarters would

    be taiuted with theological heresy as well as political disaffection . He consequently established a rule , since rigidly acted upon , that no candidate from a Dissenting school should receive ordination . Certain clerical schools were licensed , as those alone from which candidates

    should be eligible . And these licensed schools are now likely to merge , as to this privilege at least , in the new College at Lampeter , which owed its foundation to the pious zeal of the present Bishop of Salisbury .

    The Presbyterian Board were once desirous of engaging Mr . Davis ' s services as the tutor of the Carmarthen Academy . But he declined the appointment . His brother , Mr : Benjamin Davis , afterwards of Evesham , had before held the situation of assistant tutor in that institution

    under Mr . Gentleman . At an Association of Dissenting Ministers , held at Llechryd , in Cardiganshire , in 1791 , soon after the disgraceful Birmingham riots , Mr . Davis moved a series of resolutions , expressive of their , . - ——i - - .. . H - * Another son of Mr . David Lloyd ' s was Mr . Thomas Lloyd , a learned and amiable man , who was for some time classical tutor at the Swansea Academy . He died of a consumption at an early age .

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    Obituary . —Rev . David Davis . 693

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 693, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/61/