According to the Cambrian News a plaque has been unveiled at the former home of a famous preacher, in Llangeitho, Ceredigion. Dr Martyn Lloyd- Jones, lived in Albion House, in the centre of the village, between 1904 and 1914.
Dr Jones moved to the village with his family when he was six, and attended the village primary school and later Tregaron County School. The plaque was unveiled by his great granddaughter Angharad Marshall. Pictured with her is Dr Gwyn Davies, of Aberystwyth, a lecturer in church history at the Welsh Evengelical School of Theology in Bridgend.
Afterwards, Dr Davies gave a short address on the life of Dr Lloyd-Jones.
My father-in-law tells me it was a shop in Lloyd-Jones day (there was a famous fire from which he was rescued) and it is
a café today. The owners were delighted to have the plaque unveiled. The people
planning and organising the event were a couple of local folk, quite unknown to the
Welsh evangelical world, just conscious of this famous preacher who had once
lived here. He thinks they have been rather naïve in not letting local
churches know. The Lloyd-Jones Recordings Trust (who to be fair did announce it on Facebook) gave money for a tea and then
the Doctor’s great grand-daughter, Angharad, a final year student in Swansea
University, came along with a Christian friend and spoke briefly on behalf of
the family (she is one of Bethan Catherwood’s children).
It was a Sunday afternoon in December so only 18 people turned up. If they had planned it for
August and the week of the Aber. Conference hundreds would have come there and
there would have been some preaching.
I understand that it is part of the Ceredigion Faith Trail although that fact has not been noted on the site yet. In fact if you look up people there, only three are mentioned. Daniel Rowland one expects but Dafydd ap Gwilym and Dylan Thomas are in a rather different category.
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