Jacob Davies

Jacob Davies (1816–1849) was a Welsh Baptist missionary from the Newtown area of Montgomeryshire. He became a Baptist in 1835. In 1837, he began preaching, and, in 1840, moved to study at Horton College in Bradford.^[1][2] He married Eliza Green of Peckham.^[3]

In 1844, he was appointed to a missionary position in Ceylon;^[1][2] but within a few years his health began to fail.^[1]

In February 1849, he supported the Kandyans against the Governor of Ceylon, Lord Torrington, following the Matale rebellion.^[4] After 5 years in Ceylon, he died in Colombo, on 2 November 1849, of cholera at the home of Dr Elliott.^[4][5] and was buried at Wolvendaal Church.^[4]

His only son, Sir James Ackworth Davies (1845-1906), was a judge in the Madras Civil Service including serving for many years as a Judge of the High Court, Madras.^[4][6]

References

1. Evans, Evan Lewis. "Jacob Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
2. The Baptist Magazine. J. Burditt and W. Button. 1844.
3. Walford, Edward (1869). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland ... R. Hardwicke. p. 273.
4. Lewis, J. Penry (John Penry) (1913). List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated. Colombo, Printed by H. C. Cottle. pp. 132–3.
5. Wright, Arnold (1999). Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. Asian Educational Services. p. 280. ISBN 9788120613355.
6. The Law Times: The Journal and Record of the Law and the Lawyers. 1906.