Evan Davies (missionary)

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Evan Davies (1805-1864) was a Welsh Protestant Christian missionary in China. He served with the London Missionary Society and worked among the Chinese in Malaysia in Penang.

Davies was born in Hengwm, Lledrod, Wales.

He served along side other pioneer missionaries such as Samuel Dyer and his wife, Maria (Tarn) Dyer. After serving as a missionary in Penang, he returned to England to minister in Torrington and London.

He was later inspector of the Missionary School at Walthamstow, Richmond.

Davies' impact on Christian missionary work in China is often understated. His book "China and Her Spiritual Claims" (1845) was a blueprint in many ways for the book by Hudson Taylor, China's Spiritual Need and Claims, which moved hundreds to pursue missionary work in China, especially for the China Inland Mission.

Davies lies buried at Abney Park Cemetery in London.

[edit] Works authored or edited

An appeal to Reason and Good Conscience of Catholics
China and Her Spiritual Claims (1845)
Letters of Rev. Samuel Dyer to his children (Ed. By Evan Davies)
Rest. Lectures on the Sabbath
Memoirs of Rev. Samuel Dyer; London : Snow, 1846
Lectures on Christian Theology (2 vols.) (1850) by George Payne (Ed. By Evan Davies)
Revivals in Wales. Facts and correspondence supplied by the Pastors of the Welsh Churches; London : J. Snow, 1859. 96 p.
Works of the late Rev. Edward Williams of Rotherham. 4v; Edinburgh : Ballintyre, 1862. (Ysgrifennodd nodiadau ar Bechod Gwreiddiol a Bedydd a welir yng ngwaith Dr Williams) (Editor)