Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, JOSEPH MORGAN (1868 - 1955), minister (U) and Free Catholic, councillor and public figure sermon (1918); The humanising of industry (1919); A comprehensive Church. What the Old Meeting Church stands for (1921); Religious instruction in schools (1941); Toleration and church-unity (Dr. Williams Lecture, 1941); What is education for? (1949); he edited The Free Catholic (1916-27). He died 2 July 1955 and his body was cremated at Glyn-taff on July 6. His wife died in 1945. He was survived by his
THOMAS, JOSEPH WILLIAM (1846 - 1914), chemist
THOMAS, LEWIS (1832 - 1913) Queensland, pioneer of coal-mining Born 1832, at Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire. He married Ann Morris at Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn. Emigrating at the age of 27 he worked his way through Victoria to Queensland. In 1866 he cut the first ton of coal from the Bundamba coal-field and opened up the well-known Aberdare colliery, where he worked till 1890, when its output reached between 50,000 and 60,000 tons per annum. Retiring from mining
THOMAS, LEWIS (d. March 1704), one of the chief leaders of the Particular Baptists he received a licence to preach at the house of William Dykes in Swansea. He suffered severely from the ' Clarendon Code ' and the writs of sheriffs. When Toleration came it was seen that his area of activity stretched from Carmarthen to Bridgend, supervising the 'church of Swansea,' though there are plenty of references to his preaching as far east as Hengoed and Blaenau Gwent. His name appears on
THOMAS, LEWIS (fl. first half of the 20th century) south Wales, pioneer of the art of Cerdd Dant Born at Pontyberem, Gwendraeth Valley, Carmarthenshire, 30 May 1877, the eldest of nine sons of William Thomas, a collier, and his wife, Jane. Lewis worked in the mines for a short period before being apprenticed and gaining his trade as a local shoemaker. In 1905 he married Mary Emiah Jones, a teacher at Pontyberem, but originally from Llan-non, Llanelli. They had a son and two daughters. His
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist . Davies, Director of Education, and his successor Edward Rees. At this time she lived at Arwynfa, Borthyn, Ruthin, and by 1935 she is registered as living at Llwyni, Llanfair Road, Ruthin. The occupants are noted as Emily, Louie Myfanwy, Mary and William Henry Davies. W.H. Davies, a Meth. lay-preacher, was her father's brother, his wife was Mary and their daughter Emily. Myfanwy lived there for some
THOMAS, MARGARET (1779 - ?), hymnwriter daughter of William Llwyd of Vaenol, near Bangor, Caernarfonshire. As a young woman she married one Edmund Williams; her second marriage (c. 1817) was with Edward Thomas of Tal-y-bont Uchaf, Llanllechid, an elder at Gatws church (Calvinistic Methodist), near Bangor. Her hymns are found written on the blank pages of an old edition of the Bible, T. Charles's Geiriadur, and an old copy of the Book
THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian Born 8 July 1874, in Talysarn, Dyffryn Nantlle, Caernarfonshire, the son of Robert Thomas, quarryman, and his wife. The father died when the Nantlle lake burst its banks, and 8 workmen were killed. Morris Thomas was only 12 years old, but at that age the boy had to go to work in the quarry. His minister, William Williams, saw that he was exceptionally able and gave him encouragement and
THOMAS, OWEN (1812 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author received a call to Pen-mount church, Pwllheli, where he was ordained in September of the same year. In 1846 he moved to Newtown to take charge of an English church, and at the end of 1851 received a call to be minister of Jewin Crescent, London. On 24 January 1860 he married Ellen (died 1867), youngest daughter of the Rev. William Roberts of Amlwch (1784 - 1864). In 1865 he moved to Liverpool, first to
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant his own until 1946 when he took his son Norman into partnership, and in 1952 enlisted William Marsden and Wallace Sweet. World War II halted all public works and during this period Percy Thomas was immersed in government service in Wales, and continued to be so until the end of the 1950s. In 1940 the Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan invited him to be regional officer in the Ministry of Supply, and when
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress alloy worker who became a councillor and JP in Ynys-y-mond parish, Hannah Mary (1906-1970) and David William (1914-1989), at 11 Gwyn Street, Alltwen, and from 1918 onwards at Tyle Coch farm, Ynys-y-mond. She used the surname Roberts until her marriage although she was never officially adopted by Mary and David. She was educated at Alltwen Primary School and Ystalyfera County School, and was accepted
THOMAS, RHYS (1720? - 1790), printer Printer at Carmarthen, Llandovery, and Cowbridge. Rhys Thomas is included in this work as being one of the best Welsh printers of the 18th century, and because of the connection of his press (at Cowbridge) with the publication of the English-Welsh dictionary of John Walters. He was established at Carmarthen in 1760; two small books of hymns by Morgan Rhys (Cascljad o Hymnau) and Dafydd William

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