Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TALBOT, CHARLES (1st baron Talbot of Hensol), (1685 - 1737), lord chancellor D.N.B.) had been hitherto associated mainly with England. It was when he married a Welsh heiress that his connection with Wales began. This was in the summer of 1708, his wife being Cecil, daughter of Charles Mathew, Castell Menich, Glamorgan, granddaughter and heiress of judge David Jenkins of Hensol. Talbot built at Hensol a Tudor-style castle to which his son added afterwards. He was raised to the
THICKENS, JOHN (1865 - 1952), minister (Presb.), historian and author ); they had five daughters. He became minister of Libanus, Dowlais (1892-94), and Tabernacl, Aberaeron (1894-1907). Whilst there he spent much time with his uncle, his mother's brother, Joseph Jenkins (1859 - 1929), who was a minister at New Quay, Cardiganshire. The outcome of their collaboration was the series of conferences which were held in south Cardiganshire, precursors to the 1904-05 Religious
THOMAS, JEFFREY (1933 - 1989), barrister and Labour\/SDP politician hobbies were watching rugby football and travelling. His political papers are in the custody of the National Library of Wales - in two groups donated by each of his wives. He lived at 60 Lamont Road, London, and conducted his practice from 3 Temple Gardens, Temple, London. He married (1) in April 1960 Margaret Jenkins B.Sc., the marriage was dissolved in 1982, and (2) Valerie Ellerington in 1987. There
THOMAS, JOHN (fl. 1689-1712), minister of the Tivy-side Independents Thomas's signature is the first of those attesting Jenkin Jones's will, it is possible that he was already co-pastor with him. But by that time, the question of infant Baptism was disquieting local Dissenters, and a public debate on that subject was arranged (1691 or 1692) between John Thomas and John Jenkins (1656? - 1733) of Rhydwilym. The upshot was that the Baptist members of the mixed congregation
THOMAS, JOHN ROWLAND (1881 - 1965), religious leader and prominent merchant ', Dollis Hill, there was an open door for a host of Welsh people, especially ministers of the Gospel. They had 3 daughters; Morfudd, who married J. Idris Jenkins, the first minister of the Welsh Congregational church at Harrow; Gwyneth; and Eluned Marian, who emigrated to Toronto, Canada, and who was President of the North American Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association 1976-78. He died 16 April 1965.
THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD (1878 - 1917), poet England, Feminine Influence on the Poets, Borrow, Swinburne, Marlborough, are a few titles from these years. Overwork and literary frustration increased his melancholy and told on his health. Among his friends were 'Dad' Uzzell, W. H. Davies, Gordon Bottomley, Gwili (John Jenkins, 1872 - 1936), and Edward Garnett. In July 1915 he enlisted in the Artists' Rifles, was transferred to the Artillery later
THOMAS, SAMUEL (1692 - 1766), Independent minister, and tutor of Carmarthen Academy Evan Davies to get rid of him, the Calvinists decided, in 1757, to start their own Academy in Abergavenny. Evan Davies left Wales in 1759, and the Presbyterian Board entrusted the management of the Academy to Samuel Thomas, with Jenkin Jenkins as his assistant; the reputation of the Academy for unorthodoxy was finally established under these two men. It is generally conceded that Samuel Thomas was a
VARRIER-JONES, PENDRILL CHARLES (1883 - 1941), physician Pendrill Varrier-Jones was born at Glyn Taff House, Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, on 24 February 1883, the son of Dr Charles Morgan Jones, a local doctor, and his wife Margaret Varrier (née Jenkins), whose family ran a coal mining business. (He changed his surname from Jones to Varrier-Jones in 1929). He had one sister. He was educated at Epsom College and then Wycliffe College, Stonehouse. At
WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator Ammanford choral society, and later studied with David Vaughan Thomas. He was the first pupil at Amman Valley County School to study music for the Higher Certificate, but at Aberystwyth he first took a degree in French before graduating in music. While at school he had formed a trio with his brother Merfyn on the cello and Rae Jenkins (1903-1985), later a well-known conductor, as violinist. As a student
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor French language', ibid. (1965); 'The chronology of the Black Book of Carmarthen on the basis of its Old French phenomena', ibid. (1965); 'The Black Book of Chirk and the orthographia gallica anglicana, the chronology of the Black Book of Chirk on the basis of its Old French graphical phenomena', ibid. (1966). He married Lucy Jenkins, Hendy, Pontarddulais (a sister to John (Gwili) Jenkins at Tabernacl
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister Moreia, Llanelli from 1910 until his death. He was the editor of Seren Gomer from 1921 to 1930, and from 1933 until 1947 (with John Gwili Jenkins for a year, and then with David Hopkins as co-editors). He was a notable administrator - he was President of his cymanfa, President of the Union of Welsh Baptists, 1939-40, and Chairman of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1944-45. He contributed many articles
WAYNE family, industrialists an official of the Llynfi Valley iron-works. He married, 1837, Gwenllian, daughter of Rees Jenkins of Glyncorrwg. (2) THOMAS WAYNE (1810 - 1867), who was for many years the agent of the canal company, and acted as treasurer and trustee of the Aberdare Turnpike Road Trust. He took a prominent part in building S. Elvan's church at Aberdare. He gave evidence before the Royal Commission on the Turnpike

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