Over 450 people gathered on June 2 to give thanks for the ministry of the Rev. B. Tudor Lloyd at the church where he ministered for over 51 years, Bethesda Presbyterian Church of Wales, Burry Green.
Born in the Swansea Valley in 1929, he was a great nephew of the composer Dr. Daniel Prothero, some of whose tunes (Cwmgiedd, Milwaukee, Price and Hiraeth) are included in Christian Hymns.
He was an authority on one of his important predecessors, the Rev. William Griffiths (the Apostle of Gower, 1788-1861), whose diaries he translated from Welsh, and upon whom he delivered the triennial Revival Memorial Lecture to the Presbyterian Church of Wales in 1997. It was later published in the Journal of the CM Historical Society, and Pleasant Places (ed. Dr. Eifion Evans).
