Nantlais Williams

He received his elementary education at Ysgol y Bwrdd, New Inn, but because of the death of his brother he had to leave when he was twelve to take up an apprenticeship as a weaver.

By 1902 he was married to Alice Maud Jones, a relative to J. T. Job, another leader of the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival.

From that weekend onwards Nantlais abandoned some of his preaching conferences and concentrated on his ministry at Bethany, Ammanford, which became a centre of the revival.

Nantlais ferociously opposed a report to restructure the denomination after the First World War because it included the possibility of letting go, or at least the loosening of the theology given down to them from the Methodist fathers.

Nantlais published a series of articles in Goleuad (the denomination's newsletter), later put together as a book, in which he criticized the moves of 1925 and attacked modernists within the Church that challenge the authority of scripture.

He was an important hymn writer and will be seen in the line of descent of the Protestant Calvinistic Welsh tradition.