Dictionary of Welsh Biography

NICHOLAS, JAMES (1877 - 1963), Baptist minister from Blaendyffryn. William Thomas, the Independent minister at Llanboidy, influenced him greatly, but he became a member at Ramoth with his mother. He was baptized, aged 16, by the minister, D.S. Davies (Dafis Login) and he delivered his first sermon in April 1898. Following nine months at the Old College School at Carmarthen, he became a student at the Presbyterian College Carmarthen 1899-1901. He
NICHOLAS, JOHN MORGAN (1895 - 1963), musician ', dedicated to the tenor David Lloyd, with whom he made two records as accompanist, are excellent examples of his work. But he also wrote instrumental pieces, for instance for the cellist Ffrancon Thomas, and some of his works were in the repertoire of the celebrated oboist Léon Goossens. Two pieces for oboe and piano, 'Rhapsody' and 'Melody', were dedicated to the memory of his daughter, who was a
NICHOLAS, THOMAS (1816 - 1879), Congregational minister, theological college tutor, and historian , Carmarthen. In 1863 he settled in London, and thereafter, with the aid of Sir Hugh Owen, the first lord Aberdare, the Rev. David Thomas, Stockwell, and others, he promoted a scheme for the furtherance of higher education in Wales, Nicholas becoming secretary of the movement which led eventually to the founding of the first University College in Wales at Aberystwyth in 1872; before that came about, however
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party well as a farmer. The boy was reared in an independent, cultured and anti-establishment community. A younger contemporary was D.J. Davies, born in the small holding to which the Nicholas family moved in 1880, and who became the minister of Capel Als, Llanelli. Another from the same area was Thomas Rees, pioneer of the Labour Party and of adult education and Principal of Bala-Bangor College. T.E
NICHOLAS, WILLIAM RHYS (1914 - 1996), minister and hymnwriter prizewinning hymn text 'Tydi a wnaeth y wyrth, O Grist, Fab Duw', written for the Rhys Thomas James Eisteddfod at Lampeter in 1967, and sung to the tune 'Pantyfedwen' by M. Eddie Evans, is amongst the most popular of modern Welsh hymns. There are 23 of his hymn texts in the interdenominational collection, Caneuon Ffydd, published in 2001. Nicholas learnt much about hymns by serving as secretary to the Y
NICHOLL, JOHN (1797 - 1853) Commissioner, and a member of the Board of Trade in January 1846. Locally, he was a deputy-lieutenant and chairman of the Glamorgan quarter sessions. On 14 December 1821 he married Jane Harriet, second daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam. He had seven children, and was succeeded in the estate by his eldest son, John Cole Nicholl 1823-1894. He died in Rome on 27 January 1853. The Merthyr Mawr estate is
NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (1844 - 1885), Independent minister Park cemetery. Although he only spent eighteen years in the ministry, the freshness of his genius made him one of the most popular preachers in his denomination. ' One rarely heard a preacher with a greater gift for sustaining the interest of his congregation,' says Dr. John Thomas. The prominent part he played in the ' battle of the constitutions ' (see under M. D. Jones) displeased several people
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet T. C. Evans (Cadrawd) thought that he was the man of the same name who was born in Llangynwyd, Glamorganshire, in 1705. According to Cadrawd, the older people spoke of him as one who had kept school in the parish. Iolo Morganwg listed him with the literary men who were self-educated. He lived afterwards in Ystradyfodwg and perhaps in Glyncorrwg and Cwm-gwrach. It is quite possible that he was an
NORTH, HERBERT LUCK (1871 - 1941), architect Born at Leicester in 1871, son of Thomas and Fanny North. He was educated at Uppingham school and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. In 1897 he married Ida Maude Davies, and they had one daughter. Settling at Llanfairfechan he became interested in the old buildings of Snowdonia. He published The old churches of Arllechwedd, Bangor, 1906, The old cottages of Snowdonia (1908, jointly
NOWELL, THOMAS (1730? - 1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history son of Cradock Nowell, of Cardiff. Wherever the Nowells may have sprung from, it is certain that the name 'Cradock' associates them with Nottage, Glamorganshire. More than one 'Cradock' is named in a will from Newton Nottage in 1504, and a freeholder named Thomas Cradock is found there in 1634 (H. H. Knight, ' An Account of Newton Nottage,' in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1853, 179, 246). In the 17th
OLIVER(S), THOMAS (1725 - 1799), Wesleyan preacher
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