Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, WILLIAM MORGAN (1853 - 1923), musician D. Emlyn Evans, and he became responsible for the music pieces that were issued with that journal. He acted as secretary of the eisteddfodau held at Liverpool, 1884, and Wrexham, 1888. He contributed articles to Y Cerddor and produced Welsh versions of some of the works of the masters. He edited the second supplement to Llyfr Tonau Cynulleidfaol (Ieuan Gwyllt). Hymn-tunes composed by him appeared
ROWLAND, NATHANIEL (1749 - 1831), Methodist cleric the Association, and he played a leading part in the excommunication of Peter Williams. His chief failing was his pride, and he tended to arrogate authority over his brethren. In 1807, at the Newcastle Emlyn Association, he too was excommunicated, for drunkenness. He died 8 March 1831, and was buried at Henllan Amgoed. His will was published in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd
SAUNDERS, DAVID (1831 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister, preacher, educationist, and defender of Protestantism Born 20 May 1831 at Newcastle Emlyn, but brought up at Morriston, where he began to preach. He was educated at Trevecka College (1851) and the University of Glasgow, but he was obliged to cut short his academic course and return home owing to a serious illness. He settled at Pen-clawdd, Gower, as minister of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church but removed soon afterwards to Bethania, Aberdare
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer , 1820; Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul … at yr hyn yr ychwanegwyd ychydig o hymnau newyddion, 1828; and elegies on Samuel Breeze, Newcastle Emlyn, 1812; Zecharias Thomas, Aberduar (2nd ed.), 1816; and Joseph Harris (Gomer, 1826). It was only through the intercession of Iolo Morganwg that Saunders's ode to Picton was included in Awen Dyfed (1822), a compilation of the most notable compositions
SAUNDERS, EVAN (d. 1742), deacon A deacon in the Baptist church at Coedgleision, Betws Bledrws, which was moved to his house at Aberduar, on the removal of Enoch Francis the minister to live in the Newcastle Emlyn district about 1730. He began to preach on the minister's death in 1740, but died in 1742. DAVID SAUNDERS 'I' (died 1812), minister Religion His son, who began to preach in the church in 1764 and was ordained co-pastor
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author author of this book claims that Stanley was no other than his schoolmate Howell Jones, son of Josuah Jones, bookbinder, Cenarth, in the valley of the Tivy, and that Stanley was born at Ysgar, in the parish of Betws, near Newcastle Emlyn. But lady Stanley and the writer of the detailed article on Stanley in the D.N.B. do not accept the findings of Thomas George. Stanley himself (see Autobiography) gives
STEPHENS, THOMAS (1821 - 1875) Born 21 April 1821 at Tan-y-gyrchen (known as Ty-to-cam =the house with the crooked roof), Pont Neath Vaughan, Glamorganshire, son of Evan Stephens, boot-maker, and Margaret, daughter of William Williams, Unitarian minister of Blaen-gwrach. He spent about three years at the school kept by John Davies (1795 - 1858) at Newcastle Emlyn, and this was all the systematic education he ever had. In 1835
THOMAS, ALBAN (d. 1740?), cleric, poet, and translator A native of Rhos, Blaen-porth, Cardiganshire; curate of Blaen-porth and Tre-main, 1722-40. He was a prominent figure in a remarkable literary revival which characterised Newcastle Emlyn and the surrounding countryside at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries; for details, see Ifano Jones, Hist. of Printing and Printers in Wales, and the references given therein. To
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (Myfyr Emlyn; 1836 - 1893), Baptist minister, poet, lecturer, and author afterwards, he was induced to preach, and after nine months' training at a school kept by Dr. George Rees at Fishguard, he was admitted, in 1855, to Haverfordwest College, and in 1858 to Bristol College. He was ordained at Dre-fach and Graig, Newcastle Emlyn, in 1860, as co-pastor with Timothy Thomas, accepted the pastorate of the English church at Penarth in 1873, and finally, in 1875, moved to Narberth
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (1723 - 1790), Independent preacher and Methodist exhorter chief Methodist missionaries in that part of the country. He went to the Llanidloes Association (1750), and when the split took place, sided with Daniel Rowland. Harris met him again at the Newcastle Emlyn Association (1764). We find the name of 'Benjamin Thomas near Cardigan' in the list of Pembrokeshire subscribers to D. Rowland ' Tair Pregeth, 1772, but in the Pembrokeshire list of subscribers to
THOMAS, DAVID EMLYN (1892 - 1954), politician and trade unionist Born 16 September 1892 at Maesteg, Glamorganshire, one of nine children. His father James Thomas was a native of Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, and his mother hailed from Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire. He spent short periods of his childhood at Cilgerran and Cardigan. He was educated at elementary schools at Maesteg, and attended evening classes in mining and mine surveying which enabled him to
THOMAS, HELEN WYN (1966 - 1989), peace activist Helen Wyn Thomas was born on 16 August 1966 in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, the daughter of John Thomas and his wife Janet (née Jones). Her parents ran the shops JDR Thomas and Y Goleudy in the town. Helen attended Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi and then studied history at St David's University College Lampeter. After graduating, Helen travelled to India for six weeks, where she met Mother Theresa. On

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