Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons He was born on 29 January 1909 at Port Talbot, the son of Zachariah Thomas (1881-1925), a coalminer and native of Carmarthen, and Emma Jane (1881-1972), the daughter of John Tilbury of Lanfield, Hampshire. His father was a drunkard who deserted his wife, leaving her to bring up five children alone. He was then raised by his mother in the village of Trealaw just across the river from the town of
THOMAS, THOMAS HENRY (Arlunydd Penygarn; 1839 - 1915), artist Born 31 March 1839 at the Baptist College, Pontypool, son of Thomas Thomas (1805 - 1851), and his wife, Mary David, Cardiff. He was educated at home and at an academy kept by Dr. Bompas in Bristol before he entered the Bristol School of Art, whence he went (1858) to Carey's Art School, London, and to the Royal Academy Schools; he later went to Paris, Rome, etc. At Rome he came to know John Gibson
THOMAS, THOMAS JACOB (Sarnicol; 1873 - 1945), schoolmaster, writer and poet prose and verse to the Ymofynydd, Cymru, Y Geninen, the Western Mail, the London Kelt, Y Llenor, Y Ford Gron, Y Beirniad, Y Cymro, and The Merthyr Express, for which he edited a Welsh column for many years. Many of his English poems appeared in the Western Mail, and he won several prizes for competitions in John ôlondon and T.P's Weekly. His chief publications were Ar lan y môr a chaneuon eraill, 1898
THOMAS, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1840 - 1897), scholar, teacher and linguist and 1895, but it was John Rhŷs who succeeded Harper. In 1897 he accepted the canonry of St. Asaph from the Crown, but died before his installation. Llewelyn Thomas contributed scholarly articles on the Basque language to The Academy, 21 January 1893, 23 June 1894, 1 February 1896, and 8 February 1896. His treatise on the Basque manuscripts shows that he had a mastery of that language. It was he who
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1694 - 1751), cleric and scholar man when he was asked to complete the work on an edition of the poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, which had been begun by John Urry (died 1715) and continued by Thomas Ainsworth (died 1719). This work, a large folio, published in London in 1721, has a preface by Timothy Thomas, who was also responsible for the glossary; William Thomas corrected and enlarged the life of Chaucer, originally prepared by John
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1720 - 1768) Maes-isaf, Pencarreg, Baptist minister and author Emlyn. THOMAS THOMAS (1759 - 1819), minister and author Literature and Writing Religion Second son of the second marriage of Timothy Thomas 'I,' and twin brother of John Thomas, M.R.C.S., Aberduar, was born 5 March 1759. He was educated at the school of David Davis, Castell-hywel, and was baptized at Aberduar by David Saunders 'I' March 1776. Admitted to Bristol Baptist Academy in 1777, he was
THOMAS, WILLIAM (fl. c . 1685? - c . 1740?), secretary to Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford son of Thomas Thomas, Llandovery, who is described as ' gent ' by Foster (Alumni. Oxon.) in his account of the academic career of Timothy Thomas (1694 - 1751), brother of William Thomas. John Davies (Bywyd a Gwaith Moses Williams) suggests that he was self-taught, possibly because of what Thomas Hearne says of him - 'He never had any Academical Education' (T. Hearne, Collections). Nevertheless he
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1727 - 1795), schoolmaster and diarist very many years Thomas kept a diary, which was seen by John Rowland (Giraldus, 1833 - 1891), and quoted by him in his Caer-marthenshire Monumental Inscriptions - p. xxiii of that work shows that the diary was begun in 1750. The diary, or part of it was, in 1888, in the possession of a Dr. Lewis of the vale of Glamorgan, and in that year considerable excerpts of it, covering the years 1762-94, were
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist and Dafydd Rhys and a daughter, Truda. Believing that every minister should have some other profession, he took up journalism. After the death of his friend John Roberts ('J.R.', 1804-1884), he edited Y Cronicl from 1885 to 1910, at first with the help of ' J.R. 's' brother Samuel ('S.R.'), and then with the purely nominal help of M. D. Jones. He also edited Y Celt from 1885 to 1901. Apart from his
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1613 - 1689), bishop Born at Bristol, 2 February 1613, son of John Thomas of Bristol (formerly of Carmarthen) and Elizabeth his wife. He was educated at the grammar school, Carmarthen, and matriculated in the University of Oxford from S. John's College, 13 November 1629, graduating B.A. from Jesus College, May 1632, and M.A. in February 1634/5. He was also Fellow and tutor of Jesus College. Ordained deacon in 1637
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 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

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