New volume by D Densil Morgan

On 6 August, during the National Eisteddfod at Bala, Professor D. Densil Morgan’s latest volume, a biographical study of the Victorian theologian Lewis Edwards,  was launched. According to Prof. Branwen Jarvis, editor of the University of Wales ‘Dawn Dweud’ series in which the book appears, it was appropriate that we were meeting in the town of Bala where Edwards had left such a profound mark. Having married into the family of the great Methodist leader, Thomas Charles, Edwards established a college which combined the highest academic standards with the piety of his people. ‘It was he, more than anyone else’, according the Derec Llwyd Morgan, former Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth and one of the speakers at the occasion, ‘who expanded the vision of Victorian Wales and taught the people that scholarship and religion were partners for the good of humankind’. The book is the tenth in the ‘Dawn Dweud’ series of literary biographies, and the second written by Dr Morgan. The first, on Pennar Davies, appeared in 2003