Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850 - 1885), metallurgist and inventor Born 16 April 1850 at Canonbury, London, son of William Thomas (1808 - 1867), a Welshman in the solicitors' department of the Inland Revenue office, London, and his wife Melicent (Gilchrist); for the connection of William Thomas with the parish of Llanafan, Cardiganshire (and other parts of Wales), see the biography by the inventor ' sister, Lilian Gilchrist Thompson, and the Cambrian News
THOMAS, SIENCYN (1690 - 1762), boot-maker, Dissenting preacher, and poet The son of Thomas Morgan, miller, of Tre Wen, Brongwyn, Cardiganshire. He lived at Cwm Du. According to the evidence of the elegy written upon him by his son, John Jenkin, he was born in 1690. He began his career as a Dissenting preacher in 1716 and attended to the spiritual needs of the congregations at Tre-wen and Llechryd. His englynion ' In Laudem Authoris ' in Drych y Prif Oesoedd, 1716, and
THOMAS, SIMON (d. 1743?), Presbyterian minister and author Very little is known about him. D. Lleufer Thomas, in his article in the D.N.B. on Joshua Thomas, says that he was the latter's uncle, and that Joshua Thomas was apprenticed to him at Hereford in 1739. According to Joshua Thomas (Hanes y Bedyddwyr ymhlith y Cymry, 1st imp., xxvii), he was born at Cilgwyn, near Lampeter. It is obvious that he had had a classical education somewhere. T. Eirug
THOMAS, STAFFORD HENRY MORGAN (1896 - 1968), minister (Presb.) and poet Born at Glenview, Melin Ifan Ddu, Glamorganshire, 13 July 1896, son of Morgan and Margaret Thomas. His parents moved to Porthmadog and he commenced preaching at Tabernacl church. During World War I he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector. He was educated at Porth grammar school, University College, Cardiff (where he graduated), and Bala College. He was ordained in 1923 and served his
THOMAS, THOMAS (1880 - 1911), first British middle-weight boxing champion Born 8 April 1880 at his mother's home in Glynarthen, Ceredigion, and brought up at Carncelyn Farm, Pen-y-graig, Rhondda, Glamorganshire. He started his boxing career in the hard way, touring in a boxing booth with Jim Driscoll and Freddie Welsh (F. H. Thomas). His main training took the form of bare-back horse-riding which he did over the mountains above Pen-y-graig, and it was in this way that
THOMAS, THOMAS (1776 - 1847), cleric and historian son of John Thomas (1721 - 1795), rector of Aberporth, curate of Llandygwydd, Blaenporth and Llechryd, and schoolmaster at Llechryd. He was born at Tre-wen, Blaenporth, in 1776, but the family moved to Henbant, Llandygwydd, about 1785. Educated by his father and at the Carmarthen grammar school under Barker, he was ordained curate, 21 September 1788, and priest, 10 October 1789. He served a cure
THOMAS, THOMAS (1839 - 1888), Wesleyan minister, and miscellaneous writer Born in 1839 at Caernarvon, one of the eight children of Owen and Mary Thomas. He was apprenticed to the well-known Caernarvon printer, Hugh Humphreys, and afterwards worked in printing offices at Pwllheli and in South Wales. At Cardiff, while working there, he offered himself for the Wesleyan ministry - at first, for the foreign mission-field, but was rejected on medical grounds; he was accepted
THOMAS, THOMAS (1805 - 1881), Baptist minister and college principal retired to Cardiff, where he died 7 December 1881. He was buried at Pen-y-garn, Pontypool. Thomas was president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1872-3 - the first Welsh -speaking Welshman to be thus honoured. He married Mary David, Cardiff, in 1830. She died in March, 1881. One son survived him - T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn).
THOMAS, THOMAS (1804 - 1877), cleric Born 7 September 1804, son of John Thomas of Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig and matriculated in the University of Oxford from Jesus College, 29 March 1824. He took his B.A. in 1827, and after a year's teaching in Liverpool was ordained deacon by bishop Luxmoore of S. Asaph, 20 July 1828, and licensed to Llanfair Caer Einion. He received priest ' orders
THOMAS, THOMAS (1759 - 1819), Baptist minister - see THOMAS, TIMOTHY (I)
THOMAS, THOMAS ap (1829 - 1913), musician - see THOMAS, JOHN
THOMAS, THOMAS EMLYN (Taliesin Craig-y-felin; 1822 - 1846), Unitarian minister, poet, and schoolmaster Born November 1822 at Pen-y-graig (Pengraigwnda), in the parish of Penbryn, Cardiganshire, son of David and Elizabeth Thomas. He was educated at a school which the rector maintained at his own expense at Troedyraur, at Ffrwd-y-fâl, and at Carmarthen Academy (1839-43). In 1843 he was ordained minister of the Unitarian churches at Cribin and Ciliau Aeron (see Seren Gomer, 1843, 275) and while he

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