Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, NICHOLAS (d. 1741), printer and publisher years 1734 and 1735. It is known however, that he was back in Carmarthen by 1739; Ifano Jones (op. cit.) suggests that by that time he had completed the initiation of Simon Thomas into the craft of printing. He was printing at Carmarthen in 1740 also. He married (1) 1720, Margaret Evans, at Cenarth; (2) 11 May 1731, Margaret Roderick, Llansadwrn. He was buried in the churchyard of S. Peter's
THOMAS, OLIVER (1598 - 1653?), Puritan cleric, and author notice was throughout his career associated with the north-eastern borders of Wales. The scanty details known of his career will be found in Thomas Richards's Puritan Movement in Wales and Religious Developments in Wales. In 1629 he was at Wrexham, where Arise Evans heard him preach. In 1647 Oliver Thomas 'of Oswestry ' is found assisting Rowland Nevett in Shropshire, and is deemed 'fit to be in Second
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress coalmining communities of Wales. As a result of her simple but moving portrayal in this film she was never short of work, and she appeared in similar roles, as the brave Welsh Mam, in Blue Scar (Jill Craigie, 1949), David (Paul Dickson, 1950) and Valley of Song (Gilbert Gunn, 1953), a film version of the radio play Choir Practice, this time with Clifford Evans as the conductor. Although she was invited to
THOMAS, RICHARD (1753 - 1780), cleric, transcriber and collector of manuscripts, and genealogist younger brother of John Thomas (1736 - 1769). The older brother died in 1769, leaving his manuscripts, so it is said, to the younger brother. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that Richard Thomas refers in his letters from Oxford to his interest in manuscripts. Thomas met Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd, alias Ieuan Brydydd Hir) at Peniarth, in April 1775, at a time, be it noted, when the Society of
THOMAS, ROBERT (d. 1774), poet, and sexton of Llanfair Talhaearn Denbighshire Prys, and Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) He was buried at Llanfair Talhaearn on 18 December 1774; Dafydd Siôn Prys wrote an elegy upon him (Additional Letters of the Morrises of Anglesey (1735-86), p. 736).
THOMAS, ROBERT (1796 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist preacher, a 'character' Born 28 August 1796 at Trawsafon, Betws-y-coed, the fifth of nine children born to Thomas Thomas, stonemason, and to Elizabeth (Williams), his wife. He was a farmer' boy for a time, but later took to his father's trade. He had been to some small schools, and was a voracious reader; he wrote verse at an early age and was very friendly with Ieuan Glan Geirionydd (Evan Evans, 1795 - 1856). He began
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1720 - 1768) Maes-isaf, Pencarreg, Baptist minister and author under the titles of The Mystery of the Seven Stars, 1809, and Jesus Christ an Object of Prayer (1819); hymns in Welsh and English, e.g. in Greal y Bedyddwyr; and elegies to his uncle Zecharias Thomas and his aunt Mary Evans, Pantycelyn. His funeral sermon, by W. Newman, D.D., was published in 1819. He is not to be confused, as was done by Henry Blackwell (NLW MS 9272A), with Thomas Thomas, Wareham.
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Mai; 1807 - 1872), poet and printer Son of Ann and Thomas Thomas, miller, Llanelly and Carmarthen. His mother died 10 May 1828 (Seren Gomer, 1828, 188). He worked at Merthyr, Llandovery, and Carmarthen. He was a compositor in the office of David Rice Rees and William Rees at Llandovery, and at Carmarthen he worked in the offices of the Carmarthen Journal with William Evans and Benjamin Jones. Afterwards he set up his own business
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1790 - 1861), poet hymns. In 1860 he prepared another book, but he had died before it was published in 1862 under the title Ehediad y Meddwl (Caernarvon), a volume of poems, hymns, and elegies with a short biography of the author by the Rev. W. H. Evans. One of his hymns is included in the editions of the Wesleyan hymn book, published during the 19th century and early 20th century. He died 8 September 1861.
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1799), cleric and antiquary to lord Vernon, and was also on the most intimate terms of friendship with the duke of Beaufort. He was a good Celtic scholar and was well-versed in Oriental languages. He is said to have been a friend of Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), and to have been responsible in some measure for inducing the latter to proceed with and complete his Dissertatio de Bardis.
VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, VAUGHAN was slain by an arrow at Hereford, according to his elegy by Hywel Swrdwal. This elegy does not support the suggestion made by Evans (Wales and the Wars of the Roses, 128-9) that this incident took place at the battle of Mortimer's Cross. Watkin's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Wogan. He is described in the pedigree books as lord of Bredwardine, Cwm, Tir Ralph, Llechryd, and the
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington of the heir to the duchy of Buckingham. Like his brothers, however, he joined the Yorkists. He is found with them on commissions of oyer and terminer in North Wales in 1467, and it was with their forces that he marched to his death at the field of Edgecote, near Banbury, in 1469. There is some uncertainty about the date of his death. Evans (Wales and the Wars of the Roses, 177), on the grounds of

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