Born 9 July, 1791 at Aberdeunant, Llandecwyn, Merionethshire. After lengthy consideration he became a member of the Wesleyan society in December 1815, was made an elder in April 1816 and started to preach in February 1818. He soon became a popular and influential preacher and was known as Utgorn Meirion (the clarion of Meirion). He refused an invitation to minister to the old cause of Cilgwyn (1837) choosing to remain a Wesleyan lay preacher. For some periods he was a stipended lay preacher on various circuits, collecting towards clearing the debt on chapels, and a peripatetic evangelist under the aegis of the North Wales regional meeting. He published articles in Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd and edited a volume of sermons, Dwfr y Bywyd (c. 1855). He died 9 October, 1864.
Bathafarn cylchgrawn hanes yr Eglwys Fethodistaidd yng Nghymru, i, 40-52; iii, 59.