John Herring

Back at the museum I saw a picture of Christmas Evans and one John Herring. All I can find about Herring, who was apparently a friend of Evans', is this -

HERRING, JOHN (1789-1832), Baptist minister; b. in the parish of Trallwng, Brecknock, 8 Feb. 1789, but brought up in the adjoining parish of Llan[y]spyddyd. The family became somewhat poor after the death of the boy's father in 1793 but the position was improved when he had a step-father in 1800 and the family moved to Pen-y-cae, Mon. He was baptised at Tredegar in 1804, and began to preach in 1805. At some point he studied in Bristol Baptist College but only for a short while.

He settled in Bethania, Cardigan, 1811, and it was there he d., 2 April 1832. Christmas Evans said that Herring had more of the attributes of a great preacher than anyone else in Wales. He was chairman of the south-west Wales Baptist Association, 1831-2, and the writer of the letter to the churches on ‘the state of religion in our midst’; he also edited Greal y Bedyddwyr.

I have found references to him as 'the celebrated'.