United Theological College, Aberystwyth

Notable staff and alumni

Principals

• Owen Prys, Principal 1906–27, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Wales in 1910.
• Howel Harris Hughes, Principal 1927–39, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Wales during World War II, 1939–41.
• Rev Gwilym Edwards, Principal 1939–49, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Wales.
• Rev William Richard Williams, Principal 1949–62, and President of the Council of Churches of Wales, and Chairman of the British Committee of the Presbyterian Alliance.
• Rev Samuel Ifor Enoch, Principal 1963–1978.
• Rev Rheinallt Nantlais Williams, Principal 1978–1980.
• Rev Elfed ap Nefydd Roberts, MA, DD, Principal 1980–1997.
• Rev John Tudno Williams, Principal 1998–2003, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Wales 2006-7.

  Lecturers

• E. G. Bowen lectured on Church History.
• William David Davies, Presbyterian minister and writer on theological topics.
• Gwynn ap Gwilym, Chaired Bard, and author of several works on Welsh literature and a commentary on Deuteronomy.
• Huw Owen, Welsh theologian, writer and academic, Professor of New Testament 1949–53.
• Alan P. F. Sell, Professor of Christian Doctrine and Philosophy of Religion.
• Rev David Williams, Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister and theological tutor.
• Sir Glanmor Williams was an occasional lecturer on Church History.
• Stephen Nantlais Williams, Professor of Theology 1980–91.

  Alumni

• Glenn Christodoulou, Chairman of the Crimean War Research Society from 1983–95.
• Rev J. E. Wynne Davies, graduated BD in 1963. Lectured periodically in Church History and Pastoral Studies at the Theological College and was editor of the Historical Journal of the Presbyterian Church of Wales from 1977 to 2000. He has been the Chairman of the History Committee since 1988 and was curator of the Calvinistic Methodist Archives deposited at the National Library of Wales between 1983 and 2007. He was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, 2000–2001.
• James Daniel Evans, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, 1935-6.
• John Harris Hughes, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Wales in 1975
• David Evan Jones, missionary in India..
• The Mt Revd. Msgr Jerome Lloyd OSJV took a BD at the college.
• J. E. Caerwyn Williams, formerly Professor of Irish at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the first Director of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.
• Fiona Cuthbertson has established Keystone Consulting, a public affairs agency that specialises in tax, retail crime, infrastructure and transport. A key success was the reduction in business rates for retailers by 50%, a reduction that was increased to 100% in the March 2020 Budget. She has also been a Parliamentary candidate: Preston 2005 and a borough councillor in Merton from 2002 - 2006 having taken her place with a 13% swing from Labour. Her first novel, Party Games - a political thriller - was released on 6th May