Martyn Lloyd-Jones was born in Cardiff on 20th December 1899 and died in London on St David’s Day 1981.
His early years were spent at Llangeitho in Cardiganshire and in his youth attended Daniel Rowlands Chapel in the village. His father, like so many others in Wales at that time, relocated to London in 1914 seeking a better life for himself and his family. A couple of years later, Martyn began medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and, at the age of 23, earned a Doctorate in Medicine and became the chief clinical assistant to the King’s physician, Sir Thomas Horder.
Martyn was affectionately known throughout his entire life as ‘the Doctor’ but by 1927 he shocked the whole medical profession by leaving to become the pastor of The Bethlehem Forward Movement Mission at Sandfields in the largely working class, industrial town of Port Talbot in South Wales.
