title: Philip Dafydd
text: # Philip Dafydd
  
  Philip Dafydd (c. 1732 – c. 1814) was a Welsh Methodist exhorter, and a poet.
  
  ## Methodism
  
  Dafydd lived in the Newcastle Emlyn area, and was by trade a clog maker. Before a local Methodist chapel was built there in 1776, he is known to have held regular society meetings at his own house.
  
  ## Poetry
  
  The poetical works of Dafydd include elegies on Daniel Rowland (printed in 1797) and William Williams Pantycelyn (printed in 1791).
  
  