Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
THOMAS, ROBERT (1782 - 1860), printer and publisher Robert Thomas, the son of John and Mary Thomas, was born at Rhandregynwen, on 16 November 1782 (Rhandregynwen, Llanymynech, Montgomeryshire, OS Map 118, SJ 2819; various spellings, was and still is a substantial farm on the banks of the river Vyrnwy). He married Mary Harris of Southampton at the Church of the Holy Rood, 8 January 1818 and they had two sons (William Kyffin and Robert George) and
THOMAS, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1873 - 1951), politician and shipowner Born 23 April 1873, the son of William and Catherine Thomas, Bootle. He was educated at Bootle College, Liverpool Institute and Tettenhall College. He began working as a ship and insurance broker in the family business at Liverpool, and later became an underwriter at Lloyds. Thomas served as M.P. (Coalition Lib.) for the Wrexham division, 1918-22, stood unsuccessfully in Anglesey in 1922 before
THOMAS, ROWLAND (c. 1887 - 1959), newspaper proprietor Born c. 1887 at Oswestry, Salop, son of William Thomas and his wife. He was educated locally before entering the newspaper business, returning from World War I to succeed his father as director of the Caxton Press and chairman of Woodall, Minshall, Thomas and Co. Ltd., Oswestry, who originally produced only The Border Counties Advertizer. He founded the Wrexham Leader in 1920, later took over the
THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850 - 1885), metallurgist and inventor Born 16 April 1850 at Canonbury, London, son of William Thomas (1808 - 1867), a Welshman in the solicitors' department of the Inland Revenue office, London, and his wife Melicent (Gilchrist); for the connection of William Thomas with the parish of Llanafan, Cardiganshire (and other parts of Wales), see the biography by the inventor ' sister, Lilian Gilchrist Thompson, and the Cambrian News
THOMAS, THOMAS MORGAN (1828 - 1884), missionary William Elliott, a missionary in South Africa, in 1864. He returned to Wales in April 1871 and on account of a misunderstanding between him and the London Missionary Society he was dismissed the following October. In June 1874 a sum of about one thousand pounds collected by the Welsh churches was presented to him and this enabled him to return to Matabele-land, independent of the London Missionary
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1694 - 1751), cleric and scholar son of Thomas Thomas, ' gent ', Llandovery. From Westminster School he went to Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 4 July 1712, B.A. 1716, M.A. 12 March 1718/19, B.D. and D.D. 1735). He became a chaplain to Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, and so came to know Humphrey Wanley, the earl's librarian; his brother William Thomas (fl. 1685-1740) was also in the service of the earl. He was still a young
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist
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 (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 (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 (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

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