Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist prize for a novel in a competition held by Y Cymro in 1953 (Y Cymro, 30 October 1953): the adjudicators were Islwyn Ffowc Elis, J. Roberts Williams and T. Bassett. Her pen-name was ' Jini Jos ' and it was announced that the winner was Jane Ann Jones : ' The secret is to be kept ', said Y Cymro. She competed periodically at the national eisteddfod and submitted Diwrnod yw ein bywyd in the novel
THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, and for a critical Essay on the ' Works and art of Islwyn '. In the national eisteddfod in Pwllheli, 1925, he shared a prize for his novel Toriad y Wawr, published in 1928 by Hugh Evans and Sons, Liverpool. The other winner was Lewis Davies, Cymer, for his novel, Wat Emwnt, published by the same company in the same year. In the Bangor national
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress home in Cardiff, thanks to the strength of the BBC in television drama there. She appeared over the years in series such as Z Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Owen M.D., Dad's Army, and made a major contribution to the popular success of director John Hefin's bold venture, the first Welsh-language soap opera, Pobol y Cwm (BBC Cymru Wales, 1974-). Together with Harriet Lewis, Charles Williams, Islwyn Morris
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, WILLIAM (Gwilym Marles; 1834 - 1879), Unitarian minister, social reformer, writer, and schoolmaster Glasgow he settled down as Unitarian minister of Bwlch-y-fadfa and Llwynrhydowen, where he remained from 1860 until his death. From November 1857 to February 1858 he was private tutor to Islwyn; in 1855 he had written a novel for Seren Gomer. In 1859 he published his little book, Prydyddiaeth, and he edited and wrote a great deal for his periodical, Yr Athraw, during the short period of its existence
WALTER, HENRY (1611 - 1678), Puritan preacher, Independent 1672 arrived, that stated quite definitely that his house was at Llantarnam (that being so, he was almost certainly a tenant of a Roman Catholic, one of the Morgan family of Llantarnam, and near neighbour also to Percy Enderbie, author of Cambria Triumphans, who was married to one of the Morgans). In 1675 Maurice looks upon him as the pioneer and guardian of the numerous Puritans of Mynydd Islwyn
WALTERS, THOMAS (1729 - 1794), Independent minister who lived at his ancestral home, Pant-yr-hesg, Mynydd-islwyn, Monmouth. It is not known when he started to preach; he was obviously too young to have been recruited by Howel Harris during his mission to that neighbourhood, but it is equally clear that it was a revival of Methodistical nature which influenced him, for Philip David censures him time and again in his diary for ' ranting and roaring

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