Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, ROBERT DAVID (Iorthryn Gwynedd; 1817 - 1888), Independent minister Born at Llanrwst 17 September 1817. He began to preach in 1838 and soon developed an inclination to write both prose and verse. He spent some time at a school at Oxford, kept by Eleazer Jones, son of Dr. Arthur Jones. He received a call to the church at Penarth, Montgomeryshire, and its branches, and was ordained there, 25 May 1843. In the course of his ministry Canaan church was erected and
THOMAS, STAFFORD HENRY MORGAN (1896 - 1968), minister (Presb.) and poet . Gwynn Jones (1950) and Prosser Rhys (1952), and for a cywydd, ' Morgannwg ', in 1956.
THOMAS, THOMAS EMLYN (Taliesin Craig-y-felin; 1822 - 1846), Unitarian minister, poet, and schoolmaster was there kept a school at Cribin. Some time before 1842 he edited a hand-written magazine called ' Goleuni Glan Ceri ' (Gen., 1901, 71, 159). He contributed poems and articles of various kinds to Seren Gomer, 1842-6; some of his more important essays were ' Awen,' ' Orgraph y Gymraeg,' ' Cofiant Mr. Rees Jones (Amnon),' ' Ofergoeledd Cenedl y Cymry.' In ' Ein Hiawnderau ' he called for the
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 (1723 - 1811), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter number of houses for use as a chapel. It was at this, Cornelly, chapel that the Glamorgan Methodists convened the Pyle monthly meeting for many years as a mark of their respect for him. He was a great friend of David Jones of Llangan (1736 - 1810). He toured a great deal in Wales but, although he was an effective preacher, he is better remembered for his prayers than for his sermons. He was a saintly
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
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1727 - 1795), schoolmaster and diarist made by David Jones (1834 - 1890) of Wallington - they are now in the Cardiff City library (Crd. 4.877). As far as they go, they show that Thomas's diary was a detailed and important chronicle of events in Glamorgan at a very interesting period, and the loss of the original diary must be a subject of great regret.
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist Born at Bangor 25 September 1856, elder son of Robert Hughes Thomas, chief smith at the Penrhyn quarry, and of Elinor his wife. He served as pupil-teacher under T. Marchant Williams, but became (c. 1872) an accountant in a Manchester office. He began to preach at Gartside Street chapel, Manchester, and then went to Bala Independent College, under M. D. Jones; there he added 'Ceinion' (later
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1813), Unitarian Baptist minister 1796, he and Griffith Jones were ordained co-pastors of Pant Teg - ironically enough, Thomas took part in the ordination service of Titus Lewis at Blaen-y-waun, Pembrokeshire, in 1797. In the schism of 1799, Thomas and the Arminian party retained possession of Pant Teg chapel, which is today one of the three chapels which alone in Wales bear the designation ' General Baptist ' - see under Evan Lloyd
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1809), Independent minister, and publisher publish a translation of Guyse on the New Testament, but at his death eight parts still remained to be published. The work was finished by the Rev. Eben. Jones of Pontypool.
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 himself and his wife. According to Daniel Davies (1840 - 1916), Islwyn 'edited the Cylchgrawn, the Ymgeisydd, the Glorian, the Gwladgarwr, and the poetry columns of the Baner and Cardiff Times,' but it is difficult to know how much truth there is in this. At any rate, he edited the Welsh column in the Cardiff Times, and Glasynys (Owen Wynne Jones) and he were leader writers for the Glorian, but it was

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