Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, WILLIAM (1790 - 1861), poet
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1891 - 1958), under-secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government Born 27 November 1891, son of James and Catherine Thomas, Cymer, Rhondda,. He was educated at Porth Secondary School and the University College at Cardiff where he graduated B.Sc. in 1911 and was demonstrator in physics there for a while. During World War I he served with the South Lancashire Regiment, and was on the General Staff (Intelligence) of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. He was called
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1723 - 1811), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Marles; 1834 - 1879), Unitarian minister, social reformer, writer, and schoolmaster Born at Glan Rhyd y Gwiail, near Brechfa, Carmarthenshire, son of William and Ann Thomas (née Jones), but adopted by his father's sister. He was educated at Ffrwd-y-fâl school, 1851, Carmarthen College, 1852-6, and Glasgow University, 1856-60, where he graduated M.A. He was an Independent when he went to Carmarthen College, but a Unitarian when he left it, and when he had completed his course at
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1832 - 1911), Congregational minister
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1727 - 1795), schoolmaster and diarist very many years Thomas kept a diary, which was seen by John Rowland (Giraldus, 1833 - 1891), and quoted by him in his Caer-marthenshire Monumental Inscriptions - p. xxiii of that work shows that the diary was begun in 1750. The diary, or part of it was, in 1888, in the possession of a Dr. Lewis of the vale of Glamorgan, and in that year considerable excerpts of it, covering the years 1762-94, were
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist Born at Bangor 25 September 1856, elder son of Robert Hughes Thomas, chief smith at the Penrhyn quarry, and of Elinor his wife. He served as pupil-teacher under T. Marchant Williams, but became (c. 1872) an accountant in a Manchester office. He began to preach at Gartside Street chapel, Manchester, and then went to Bala Independent College, under M. D. Jones; there he added 'Ceinion' (later
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1799), cleric and antiquary Son of Lewis and Eleanor Thomas, Eglwys Nynnid, near Margam, Glamorganshire (he was christened 26 August 1734). He received his early education at Cowbridge under Dr. Durell, and then proceeded to Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated, 24 October 1751. He graduated B.A. from Oriel College in 1755 and M.A. in 1758. He was ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids on 13 August 1758, and
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1613 - 1689), bishop Born at Bristol, 2 February 1613, son of John Thomas of Bristol (formerly of Carmarthen) and Elizabeth his wife. He was educated at the grammar school, Carmarthen, and matriculated in the University of Oxford from S. John's College, 13 November 1629, graduating B.A. from Jesus College, May 1632, and M.A. in February 1634/5. He was also Fellow and tutor of Jesus College. Ordained deacon in 1637
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554), Italian scholar and clerk of the Privy Council to king Edward VI His career, which was described fairly fully in the D.N.B. (in 1898) by (Sir) Daniel Lleufer Thomas, can be briefly outlined as follows: He was a Welshman from Radnorshire (Brecknock?), who was presumably educated at Oxford (a William Thomas was admitted bachelor of the canon law on 2 December 1529) and who lived for some five years in Italy (Bologna, Padua, etc.), where he wrote a defence of
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 (1749 - 1809), Independent minister, and publisher

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