ABSTRACT
Prosser was a son of the diocese of St. David, born in 1868, and indeed, apart from his years in university, he spent his entire life in the diocese. Bishop John Owen, the last bishop of St. David to have been appointed by the crown and to have sat in the House of Lords, died on 4 November 1926. The diocese of St. David, however, contained 413 churches, almost one-quarter of all the churches in Wales. Llandaff had 334 churches, St. Asaph 289, and Monmouth 227. In terms of Easter Communicants in 1927, St. David, with 33,045, came third, after Llandaff, with 47,007 and St. Asaph with 37,824. None the less, perhaps 15 per cent of the adult population of the diocese of St Davids were Anglican Easter Communicants. The dean of St. David in 1927 was William Williams, born in 1848, a graduate of Lampeter, twenty years older than the bishop.
