DAFYDD (or DAVIES), MAURICE (fl. 1789), hymn-writer
Name: Maurice Dafydd
Gender : Male
Occupation: hymn-writer
Area of activity: Poetry; Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
The very well-known Welsh hymn beginning ’ Am graig i adeiladu … ’ comes from a booklet of his published in 1789. He would seem to have been a member of the Congregational church at Bala.
See the discussion in J. Thickens, Emynau a’u Hawduriaid, 138-9.
