Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman , the couple settled first in Anglesey, a stone's throw from Thomas's childhood haunts, and then in Pentre'r Felin near Cricieth, where he eventually passed away on 25 September 2000 at the age of 87, having opted for cremation rather than burial - his ashes were buried close to the door of St John's Church, Porthmadog - and having refused to endorse any memorial or monument. Nevertheless a solemn
THOMAS, THOMAS (1805 - 1881), Baptist minister and college principal retired to Cardiff, where he died 7 December 1881. He was buried at Pen-y-garn, Pontypool. Thomas was president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1872-3 - the first Welsh -speaking Welshman to be thus honoured. He married Mary David, Cardiff, in 1830. She died in March, 1881. One son survived him - T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn).
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist Born at Bangor 25 September 1856, elder son of Robert Hughes Thomas, chief smith at the Penrhyn quarry, and of Elinor his wife. He served as pupil-teacher under T. Marchant Williams, but became (c. 1872) an accountant in a Manchester office. He began to preach at Gartside Street chapel, Manchester, and then went to Bala Independent College, under M. D. Jones; there he added 'Ceinion' (later
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet Born 3 April 1832 at Tŷ'r Agent near Ynys-ddu, a village in the Sirhowy valley, Monmouthshire. His two brothers, David Thomas and John Thomas, were surveyors and engineers and Islwyn began to learn the rudiments of their profession, but his brother-in-law, the Rev. D. Jenkyns ('Jenkyns y Babell') saw that he had the making of a preacher and he was sent to schools at Tredegar, Newport, and
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Glanffrwd; 1843 - 1890), cleric and author had a stroke and was moved to his brother Morgan Thomas's house at Pontypridd, where he died early on Thursday morning, 3 October 1890. He was buried on Monday, 7 October, in Llanwynno churchyard. He was a delightful character and was loved wherever he went. He was also an enthusiastic and hard-working supporter of the eisteddfod, at which he was a frequent competitor and where he won a number of
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1832 - 1911), Congregational minister ministry of Rhys Pryse. He was at Brecon College, 1852-55, and was ordained minister of Soar and Bethel, Whitland, 25 and 26 December 1855. The cause at Whitland prospered under his ministry; Soar became too small and so the Tabernacle was built. He won a name for himself as a leader in temperance, educational, political, and religious movements; he was a staunch Liberal. Besides contributions to
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1671), leader of the free-communion Baptists in the South of that county in Restoration times It is believed, but not with certain proof, that he (as a Baptist) was one of the assistants of William Wroth at Llanfaches; it is certain that he was not the William Thomas who was baptized by Miles at Ilston in November 1650. It is easy to believe that he was friendly with Walter Cradock, and that he was one of the Puritan preachers who fled to Bristol and London in 1642-3; when he returned
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1799), cleric and antiquary chiefly in Oxford where he was a Fellow and tutor of Pembroke College. He was collated to the chancellorship of Llandaff cathedral on 10 January 1777, and appears to have resigned his living of Aberavon with Baglan and Briton Ferry in 1786, and of Llangynwyd with Llangeinor in 1789. He was also rector of Tortworth, Gloucestershire. He died 3 September 1799. After leaving Oxford, Thomas became chaplain
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1613 - 1689), bishop translated to Worcester in 1683, and died there 25 June 1689. He was buried in the cloisters of Worcester cathedral. Four sons and four daughters had been born to him and his wife Blanche, daughter of Peter Samyse, a Dutch merchant of London.
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1891 - 1958), under-secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government to the bar at Inner Temple, 1928. He had joined the Civil Service in 1914, and eventually became a member of the Welsh Board of Health, 1945-51, and under-secretary in charge of the Welsh Office of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in Cardiff, 1951-54, when he retired. He contributed articles to Y Fflam, 1947, and the Welsh column of The Western Mail (e.g. 25 November 1954) and was one
THOMAS, Sir WILLIAM JAMES (1867 - 1945), BARONET, coalowner, philanthropist after his removal to Cardiff. He married in 1917 Maud Mary, eldest daughter of George Cooper, of Bexhill-on-Sea and deputy matron of Cardiff Royal Infirmary. Sir William died 3 January 1945 and was buried at the Cardiff Cemetery.
THOMAS, WILLIAM PHILLIP (Gwilym Rhondda; 1861 - 1954), colliery official Rhondda urban district council for over 25 years, being chairman 1913-14. He married, 1887, Elizabeth Devonald (died 7 August 1955). They had a son and two daughters and he retired to Hafod, Victoria Avenue, Porthcawl, Glamorganshire, where he died 2 August 1954 and was buried at Treorchy.

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