David Charles (hymn-writer)

He returned to Carmarthen when he married Sarah, the daughter of Samuel Levi Phillips, a Haverfordwest banker, and set himself up as a tradesman.

Long connected with the Calvinistic Methodists, he joined the congregation at Water Street Chapel and became an elder.

[1] Charles began to preach at the age of forty-six, and was one of the first lay-preachers ordained ministers in South Wales in 1811.

[2] He helped to establish the "Home Mission", but was forced to retire in 1828 after suffering a stroke.

[3] His best-known hymns include "O fryniau Caersalem ceir gweled" ("From the Hills of Jerusalem are Seen").