Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, RICHARD (1718 - 1807), Methodist exhorter Christened at Llanfechell, 31 July 1718. Owing to some 'irregularity' - probably debts, which he afterwards fully repaid - he escaped to South Wales. From a letter written to Howel Harris, 27 July 1746, we gather that he was converted there c. 1739. He returned in September 1746, and continued his work as an exhorter in Anglesey. The story of his life afterwards is obscure: it is recorded that he
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1723 - 1811), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born at Dyffryn Uchaf, Margam, Glamorganshire. He became a convert in 1739 through the ministry of Howel Harris, and in 1743 joined the society at Hafod. After his marriage he went to live in a cottage near the old Dyffryn chapel and his home became a place where wayfarers could stay. He regularly communicated at Llangeitho, and began to exhort. In 1760 he moved to Tŷ-draw, Pyle, and bought a
TIBBOTT family TIBBOTT, RICHARD (1719 - 1798), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and Congregational minister Religion, Born 18 January 1719 at Hafod-y-pant, Llanbryn-mair. In 1738 he began to preach occasionally with the Congregationalists, but in 1740 he came under the influence of Howel Harris. Soon afterwards he went to Griffith Jones's school at Llanddowror and joined the Calvinistic Methodists. He himself
TUCKER, JOSIAH (1712 - 1799), cleric and economist , and in 1739 rector of All Saints in Bristol. In his earlier days at Bristol, Tucker was bitterly opposed to the Methodists; he published an attack on them in 1739, to which John Wesley replied in 1742. But during the 1756-63 war his views changed. The diary of the Bristol Moravian congregation, under the date 3 August 1759, records that Howel Harris (who, with his militia-men, was in Bristol at the
VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, field of Agincourt, 1415. According to a document given at Cwm Du, 26 November 1383, Walter Seys had a son called ROGER VYCHAN, whose mother was Matilda verch Ieuan ap Rees, then wife of Howel ap William ap Jankyn and holding land in the lordship of Talgarth (Cardiff Library, Brecknock Deeds, 3). It is certain that Roger Vaughan left three sons by Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam - Watkin, heir of
VAUGHAN family Courtfield, VAUGHAN, a descendant of Howel ap Thomas, of Perth-hir, the manor of Welsh Bicknor thus coming into the possession of one of the senior members of the Herbert clan. WILLIAM VAUGHAN (died 1601), son of James and Sibylla, married Jane (Joan), daughter and (eventual) heir of Richard Clarke, of Wellington, Herefordshire. Jane (Joan) Vaughan figures prominently in the Recusants' Rolls, 1592-1619; the names
WALTERS, THOMAS (1729 - 1794), Independent minister who lived at his ancestral home, Pant-yr-hesg, Mynydd-islwyn, Monmouth. It is not known when he started to preach; he was obviously too young to have been recruited by Howel Harris during his mission to that neighbourhood, but it is equally clear that it was a revival of Methodistical nature which influenced him, for Philip David censures him time and again in his diary for ' ranting and roaring
WILLIAM, THOMAS (1717 - 1765), Methodist exhorter and later Independent minister Born 1717, son of the miller of Corrwg mill, Eglwysilan, Glamorganshire. He came to religion under the ministry of Howel Harris, c. 1738. He was a schoolmaster in the circulating schools, began to exhort among the Methodists, and in 1743 was appointed superintendent of the societies in Glamorgan. He was one of those who, in 1745, conveyed the message concerning the ordination of exhorters to the
WILLIAMS family Gwernyfed, 1804 without a surviving son. This Sir Edward deserves mention because he was one of the principal promoters of the Brecknock Agricultural Society (1755 - the first in Wales) - see Theophilus Jones, ii, 34-7; W. R. Williams, Old Wales, ii, passim; M. H. Jones in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908-9. This brought him into close contact with Howel Harris, and it was
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709 - 1784), Independent minister Tydfil, and Edmund Jones. When the Methodist revival occurred, he welcomed it whole-heartedly. He invited Howel Harris to visit Eglwysilan, and arranged a meeting for him; see letter 110, 17 May 1738, in the Trevecka collection. The two corresponded throughout 1738 and 1739; the letters refer to the establishment of societies here and there, to various places where Williams went to preach, and to the
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer , Cardiff, and of Watford chapel. It was this minister who was instrumental in bringing Howel Harris to Glamorgan in 1738, and among the evangelist's converts was David Williams's father. In response to his father's dying request (1752) Williams decided to enter the Dissenting ministry. From 1753 to 1757 he was a student at the Carmarthen Academy. In this period the Academy was notorious for its
WILLIAMS, DAVID (1779 - 1874), Congregational minister on an extensive scale and an oil-portrait of him was presented to Brecon College. He continued to preach to the end of his days. He died 20 August 1874. A man of strong physique, he had a clear and bell-like voice, and his mode of delivery was easy and popular. He had warmth as an evangelist - he followed in the tradition of Howel Harris and other religious leaders of the 18th century.

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