page_title: Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn)
section_title: Ministry
hierarchical_section_title: Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) / Ministry
caption_attribution_description: 1 negative&#160;: glass, wet collodion, b&amp;w&#160;; 11 x 8.5 cm.
context_page_description: Rev. Rowland Williams, commonly known by his bardic name "Hwfa Môn", was a Welsh clergyman and poet, who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1895 to 1905.
context_section_description: He was ordained as a Congregationalist minister in Flint on 4 June 1851 and served as the joint minister for the congregations in Flint and Bagillt. In 1855 he moved to minister to congregations in Wrexham and Brymbo; from there he moved to Bethesda in 1852. Following a five-year period in Bethesda he was appointed minister of the Welsh Congregationalist Chapel in Fetter Lane, London, in 1862. He remained there until 1881, when he returned to Anglesey to became a minister at Llanerchymedd. His last appointment was to Llangollen in 1888; he remained there until his retirement in 1893.
caption: Photograph by John Thomas, c. 1875
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