Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1720 - 1768) Maes-isaf, Pencarreg, Baptist minister and author death, 12 November 1768. He was buried in the parish church of Pencarreg. He married (1), 1743, a native of Llan-llwnni, who died within a year, and who bore him a daughter, who married Rees Saunders, Bryn, Llanllwnni, uncle of David Saunders 'II', Merthyr; (2) 1753, a daughter of William's of Trebŵl, and grand-daughter of the family of Maes-isaf, whither he went to live. Five children were born of
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1671), leader of the free-communion Baptists in the South of that county in Restoration times in 1675 is that many strict Baptists of the Abergavenny church, who did not share the belief in the imposition of hands, allied themselves with the congregation of William Thomas. Under the penal code of Clarendon the area of his activities was the central hundreds of the county, with his headquarters at Llantrisant (he had married the daughter of George Morgan of that parish). He was about 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 (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 (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 (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet Born 3 April 1832 at Tŷ'r Agent near Ynys-ddu, a village in the Sirhowy valley, Monmouthshire. His two brothers, David Thomas and John Thomas, were surveyors and engineers and Islwyn began to learn the rudiments of their profession, but his brother-in-law, the Rev. D. Jenkyns ('Jenkyns y Babell') saw that he had the making of a preacher and he was sent to schools at Tredegar, Newport, and
THOMAS, Sir WILLIAM JAMES (1867 - 1945), BARONET, coalowner, philanthropist after his removal to Cardiff. He married in 1917 Maud Mary, eldest daughter of George Cooper, of Bexhill-on-Sea and deputy matron of Cardiff Royal Infirmary. Sir William died 3 January 1945 and was buried at the Cardiff Cemetery.
THOMAS, WILLIAM JENKYN (1870 - 1959), schoolmaster and author year to consider rewriting history books. He was harsh in his criticism of universities and the state for their reluctance in awarding worthy honours to teachers. David Lloyd George paid tribute to him in a preface to a souvenir booklet in celebration of his thirty years' headship at Hackney Downs. In 1893 he published a collection of penillion to be sung to harp accompaniment, and with E. Doughty
THOMAS, ZACHARIAS (1727 - 1816), Baptist minister marriage in 1754 to Jane (died 3 December 1781, aged 54), daughter of Rees Thomas from the Llandysul district. Six children were born to him, among them being David Thomas (1756 - 1840) of Llwyn-y-wermwd, a prominent supporter of the cause at Bethel (Caeo) and Bwlch-y-rhiw, and Benjamin Thomas (1761 - 1835), minister at Prescott, Devon (see Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vi, 276). He began to
THOMPSON, DAVID (1770 - 1857), colonial surveyor and explorer in British North America Born 30 April 1770 in Westminster, and christened as ' Thompson,' but his father (David) and mother (Ann) had borne the surname 'Ap Thomas ' until they moved to London. The father died when the boy was three. David was educated at the Grey-coat school, until, in 1784, he was apprenticed to the Hudson Bay Company. After serving for five years as clerk and fur-trader, he came, in 1789-90, under the
TILLEY, ALBERT (1896 - 1957), mace-bearer at Brecon cathedral and local historian E.F. Morgan and Sir John Conway Lloyd he specialised in the history of the town and of his adopted county. He devoted himself to collecting material on local history, copying inscriptions in churches and cemeteries and other sources. He possessed an artistic talent and interested himself in the heraldry of the county and in the pedigrees of its families. Amongst his leisure interests was the

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