David Adams

David Adams (1845–1922) of Cardiganshire, Wales was a Congregationalist minister and schoolmaster. He promoted temperance, and stressed the ethical rather than the controversial aspects of Christianity. His published works include Paul yng Ngoleuni'r Iesu and Yr Eglwys a Gwareiddiad Diweddar (1914).

Early life and education David Adams was born at Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire on 28 August 1845. His parents were Margaret and John Adams, who made boots and was a lay preacher. He attended the Llanfihangel grammar school. His education was interrupted when students were required to attend the Church of England. We worked in the lead mines for three years and then returned to school as a pupil teacher at Tal-y-bont. He attended Normal Colleges in Bangor and Swansea in the 1860s. He received a B.A. from University College Wales, Aberystwyth in 1877. Early in his career as a minister, he was a Sunday school catechist, promoted temperance, and won a prize for his essay on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel at the National Eisteddfod in Liverpool in 1884. He eschewed Calvinism and endeavored to "do away with the idea of contingency in theology and to substitute for it inevitability" and became a leader in the development of Welsh theology, according to E. Keri Evans, his biographer.