THOMAS, JOHN (1760 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist minister

Born in Berwig parish, Cardiganshire. He had very few advantages in his early days; he married young and had a large family. He joined the Baptists in 1775 but became a Methodist in 1779. He went to London where he followed his trade as a draper; whilst there he joined the church at Wilderness Row but regularly listened to the famous William Romaine. He returned to Cardigan town where he began to preach c. 1795. He was selected to be ordained at the first Methodist ordination at Llandeilo, 1811. He preached severely but very excellently; a volume of his sermons was posthumously published. He died 3 February 1849 - the last survivor of those who were ordained in 1811.

Author

• Reverend Gomer Morgan Roberts, (1904 - 1993)

Sources

• T. Phillips, Cofiant yn ghyda phigion o bregethau ac anerchiadau y diweddar Barch. John Thomas o Aberteifi (Aberystwyth 1851)
• Methodistiaeth Cymru (1851–6), ii, 103
• J. Evans, Biographical Dictionary of Ministers and Preachers of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Body … to the close of the year 1850 (1907), 295
• John Evans, Byr-gofiant am naw a deugain o Weinidogion Ymadawedig sir Aberteifi (Dolgellau 1894), 171
• J.M. Jones, Ordeiniad 1811 ymysg y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd (1911), 193

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20804732

Published date: 1959

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