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  • 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 (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
  • THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons He was born on 29 January 1909 at Port Talbot, the son of Zachariah Thomas (1881-1925), a coalminer and native of Carmarthen, and Emma Jane (1881-1972), the daughter of John Tilbury of Lanfield, Hampshire. His father was a drunkard who deserted his wife, leaving her to bring up five children alone. He was then raised by his mother in the village of Trealaw just across the river from the town of
  • THOMAS, THOMAS HENRY (Arlunydd Penygarn; 1839 - 1915), artist Born 31 March 1839 at the Baptist College, Pontypool, son of Thomas Thomas (1805 - 1851), and his wife, Mary David, Cardiff. He was educated at home and at an academy kept by Dr. Bompas in Bristol before he entered the Bristol School of Art, whence he went (1858) to Carey's Art School, London, and to the Royal Academy Schools; he later went to Paris, Rome, etc. At Rome he came to know John Gibson
  • THOMAS, THOMAS JACOB (Sarnicol; 1873 - 1945), schoolmaster, writer and poet Born 13 April 1873 at 'Sarnicol', a cottage near Rhos-yr-hafod, Capel Cynon, Cardiganshire, the fourth of the five children of David Thomas, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Mary (née Jacob). He was registered as Tom, the name of the third child of his parents who had died in infancy. His first school was the board school at Capel Cynon which was locally known as Pantygïach and Clawddmelyn
  • THOMAS, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1840 - 1897), scholar, teacher and linguist and 1895, but it was John Rhŷs who succeeded Harper. In 1897 he accepted the canonry of St. Asaph from the Crown, but died before his installation. Llewelyn Thomas contributed scholarly articles on the Basque language to The Academy, 21 January 1893, 23 June 1894, 1 February 1896, and 8 February 1896. His treatise on the Basque manuscripts shows that he had a mastery of that language. It was he who
  • THOMAS, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1840 - 1897), vice-principal Jesus College - see THOMAS, THOMAS
  • THOMAS, THOMAS MORGAN (1828 - 1884), missionary
  • THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1694 - 1751), cleric and scholar man when he was asked to complete the work on an edition of the poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, which had been begun by John Urry (died 1715) and continued by Thomas Ainsworth (died 1719). This work, a large folio, published in London in 1721, has a preface by Timothy Thomas, who was also responsible for the glossary; William Thomas corrected and enlarged the life of Chaucer, originally prepared by John
  • THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1754 - 1840), Baptist minister - see THOMAS, Timothy I