Career
He only received elementary education at Chatsworth School, Liverpool but he had considerable talent, and when he was 22 years of age he came to work at the office of the Foreign Mission in Falkner Street, near the Philharmonic Hall. The missionary, Doctor Helen Rowlands of Sylhet said of him "The map of the world (and not only India) was continuously before his eyes at all times". Yet he never visited India but wrote two volumes on the romance of the mission work.
The Welsh volume is called Hanes Cenhadaeth Dramor y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Cymreig published at Caernarfon in 1907.
He edited two magazines which have been discontinued. He edited Cenhadwr (Missionary) from its inception in 1922 till his retirement in 1949, and it retained its high standard throughout the years giving the readers an idea of the activities of missionaries in the Khasi Hills, Lushai Hills and those who laboured on the plains of Sylhet.
The title of this magazine was Glad Tidings. The Serampore Mission
The Khasi Hills 1842 - 1930
The Plains of Sylhet and Cachar
The Lushai Hills
The Breton Mission
In addition to these detailed accounts of the 5 mission fields listed above there is a half page entry in his book relating to the Mission to the Jews that inaugurated in 1846 when the Review
John Mills of Llandidloes was appointed to work among the Jews in London.
The first Jewish convert was a man named Henry Wolf and baptised in 1851 at Rose Place Chapel, Liverpool. Review Mills" work ended in 1859 but there ensued later, a number of conversions in London and from other places, to the Christian faith. (ref John Morris Hughes chp IX, p 100).
He knew how to communicate with children.
These were published in 1929 and 1932 and they provide an overview of the coming of the Welsh to Merseyside from 1787 onwards.