User:ChrisMountcastle/William Dykins

DYKINS, WILLIAM was born on 8 December 1831 at Maes Glas, Greenfield, near Holywell Flintshire and died 25 December 1872. He was a Welsh poet and prose-writer. His father died when he was eight and he was brought up by his widowed mother, Ann. He was a member of the English Independent Church of Alpha, Holywell in his youth but as a young man became a Wesleyan and was a member of that denomination at Holywell, Maes Glas, and Ffynnon Groyw. A colliery engine driver by occupation, he was a very pious man who had fervantly embraced his religious conversion. His interest in literature and music was deep. He was the conductor of a choir as well as a precentor at Pendref, Holywell. It was said that ‘he constantly sought to be of some service, especially in connection with the singing.’ In the latter years of his life several of his poems, in both the classical and modern forms, were published in Y Winllan and the Eurgrawn Wesleaidd — generally, on religious subjects. Articles written by him are also found in the same periodicals. Sadly, he suffered constant ill health in the last ten years of his life. He was buried at Holywell where he had lived all his life.

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Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd, Dolgellau , 1874 , 1-3.