Gethin Davies (1846-1896) baptist preacher, writer and principal of the North Wales Baptist College, Bangor. He was educated at the Havod British School, Glamorgan, where he also served a five year apprenticeship as a pupil teacher. At the age of fifteen he started a young men's improvement class where he taught literacy and bible studies. He began to preach in 1863 and the following year commenced his training in classical scholarship at the Swansea Training College and entered the Bristol Baptist College in 1866. In 1870 he became a tutor in classics and mathematics at the North Wales Baptist College, Llangollen and was its principal from 1883 until 1896. In 1892 the college moved to Bangor following its affiliation with the classics department of the University College of North Wales, established in 1884.
Thomas Shankland (1858-1927) was formerly librarian at the University College of North Wales (now the University of Wales, Bangor), and a Baptist minister at Mold in Flintshire.
From the guide to the Gethin Davies Memorials, 1870-1896, (Bangor University)
