Harris,

Harris, HOWEL, one of the fathers and founders of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, was born in 1714 at Trevecca, in the county of Brecon. His mind was first seriously awakened to religious questions in 1735, and for seventeen years from that date he spent his time as a lay itinerant preacher, but confined his ministrations for the most part to Wales (see METHODISTS). After his retirement to Trevecca in 1752 he still continued to preach daily at his own home; and in order to accommodate those who came to hear him he built a large house, the inmates of which led a kind of monastic life. Harris died on 21st July 1773. See his Autobiography (1791) and W. Williams, Welsh Calvinistic Methodism (1872).