Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Marles; 1834 - 1879), Unitarian minister, social reformer, writer, and schoolmaster Born at Glan Rhyd y Gwiail, near Brechfa, Carmarthenshire, son of William and Ann Thomas (née Jones), but adopted by his father's sister. He was educated at Ffrwd-y-fâl school, 1851, Carmarthen College, 1852-6, and Glasgow University, 1856-60, where he graduated M.A. He was an Independent when he went to Carmarthen College, but a Unitarian when he left it, and when he had completed his course at
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1832 - 1911), Congregational minister
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1727 - 1795), schoolmaster and diarist Born 29 July 1727, son (it seems) of a William Thomas of St. Fagans, Glamorganshire. He was probably the 'William Thomas, Charity-school Master' who wrote a manuscript of hymns and other matter, now in the C.M. Archives kept at N.L.W., and who is said to have kept school at one time at Llandybïe, Carmarthenshire - he is known to have kept schools in various south-eastern parishes of Glamorgan in
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1799), cleric and antiquary
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1613 - 1689), bishop
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554), Italian scholar and clerk of the Privy Council to king Edward VI His career, which was described fairly fully in the D.N.B. (in 1898) by (Sir) Daniel Lleufer Thomas, can be briefly outlined as follows: He was a Welshman from Radnorshire (Brecknock?), who was presumably educated at Oxford (a William Thomas was admitted bachelor of the canon law on 2 December 1529) and who lived for some five years in Italy (Bologna, Padua, etc.), where he wrote a defence of
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1813), Unitarian Baptist minister
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1809), Independent minister, and publisher
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Glanffrwd; 1843 - 1890), cleric and author Born at Ynys-y-bŵl, 17 March 1843, son of John Howell Thomas (who was the son of William Thomas Howell of Blaennantyfedw) and Jane, daughter of Morgan Jones of Cwmclydach. He attended a school kept by one Tommy Morgan. He worked as a sawyer, like his father's but after studying hard became a schoolmaster for four or five years, first at his own home and then at Llwynypia. He then became a
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet held at Gelli Groes, 16 August 1854, after the usual probation, permission was given 'to begin preaching according to the normal dispensation.' He was ordained in 1859, but never had charge of a church. In 1864 he married Martha, daughter of William Davies, who had married the widowed mother of Ann Bowen; they lived at ' Green Meadow ' near Babell chapel until, in 1871, he built ' Y Glyn ' for
THOMAS, WILLIAM (fl. 1843), colliery owner - see LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS

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