Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, PERCY GORONWY (1875 - 1954), professor of English Born 26 November 1875 at Birkenhead, Cheshire, son of Josiah Thomas and Marianne (née Jones, of Llanfyllin), later of Liverpool, and grandson of John Thomas, minister (Congl.), Liverpool (1821 - 1892). He was educated at the University of Liverpool and Caius College, Cambridge, and gained a Litt.D. of the University of Liverpool c. 1925. His first post was as assistant lecturer in English at the
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress the Bible in a service at Minny Street Chapel which was broadcast on BBC radio towards the end of 1933. As a result of this reading, which aroused curiosity amongst many of the public about the voice of this young woman from Cardiff, she was invited for an interview by Sam Jones, a producer with the BBC, and in 1934 she was cast in the Corporation's first Welsh-language radio comedy, Y Practis by
THOMAS, RHYS (1720? - 1790), printer . The dictionary, which was issued in parts, did not fare too well, in regard to expedition, at the hand of Rhys Thomas. Part i appeared in 1770 but part xiv was not issued until 1783. In the meantime the author had to exercise considerable patience and, eventually, to suffer severe disappointment; as Ifano Jones shows (Hist. of Printing and Printers in Wales) the remaining portion did not appear
THOMAS, RICHARD (1753 - 1780), cleric, transcriber and collector of manuscripts, and genealogist Born 10 December 1753, son of Thomas Rowland, Tuhwnt i'r Bwlch, parish of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, and Jane (Jones), his wife (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 359). He was a pupil at Friars School, Bangor, before he went to Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 28 November 1771, B.A. 1775). Towards the end of 1777 he became curate at Llanegryn, Meironnydd, and master at the school there - and
THOMAS, ROBERT (Ap Vychan; 1809 - 1880), Independent minister and tutor, poet and man of letters autobiography the son speaks of the precarious days of his childhood. Before he was 10 years of age he had obtained a situation as a shepherd boy with Evan Davies and his wife at Tŷ Mawr near his home. Here the family was noted for its piety, and the impression it made on his mind was to last him all his life. Michael Jones was the minister of the 'Old Chapel,' the Sunday school flourished in the district
THOMAS, ROBERT (1796 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist preacher, a 'character' will be of little value unless supplemented by reading that very entertaining biography, Hanes Bywyd Robert Tomos, Llidiardau, by Owen Jones, 1869, in which will be found many of his sayings.
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 (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 (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 (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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