Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress Baker and Donald Houston in the live television version of Choir Practice (author Cliff Gordon, prod. Michael Mills) which was broadcast from Alexandra Palace, London, in 1949, but unfortunately not recorded. The small screen also afforded her the opportunity to portray Beth Morgan from Richard Llewellyn's novel when she appeared with Eynon Evans in Dafydd Gruffydd's BBC production of How Green Was My
THOMAS, RHYS (1720? - 1790), printer Printer at Carmarthen, Llandovery, and Cowbridge. Rhys Thomas is included in this work as being one of the best Welsh printers of the 18th century, and because of the connection of his press (at Cowbridge) with the publication of the English-Welsh dictionary of John Walters. He was established at Carmarthen in 1760; two small books of hymns by Morgan Rhys (Cascljad o Hymnau) and Dafydd William
THOMAS, SAMUEL (1692 - 1766), Independent minister, and tutor of Carmarthen Academy seems to have been uninspiring - Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) complains of his frigid temperament. He was certainly an Arminian and probably an Arian. His church did not quarrel with this; but its records show that after thirty years of his ministry it was small and moribund. As a tutor, his views caused considerable concern to the Congregational Board; and after several unavailing attempts to persuade
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, 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 MORGAN (1828 - 1884), missionary Born at Llanharan, Glamorganshire, 13 March 1828. He entered Brecon College in 1854 and was ordained for the mission field at Cwm-bach, Aberdare, 11 May 1858. He married Anne Morgan, daughter of Jonah Morgan, pastor of the Congregational church at Cwm-bach. In June 1858 they sailed for Matabele-land, South Africa. In 1862 his wife died and he married Caroline Hutchinson Elliott, daughter of
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1720 - 1768) Maes-isaf, Pencarreg, Baptist minister and author Born at Tŷ-hen, Caeo, 2 March 1720-1 second son of Thomas Morgan and Jane Thomas, and brother of Joshua Thomas, Leominster, and Zecharias Thomas, Aberduar, he was baptized at the age of 18, and started to preach before he was 20; he was educated at the Academy at Trosnant, 1740-1, and in 1743 was ordained minister of his mother-church at Aberduar and its branches, where he remained until his
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Glanffrwd; 1843 - 1890), cleric and author Born at Ynys-y-bŵl, 17 March 1843, son of John Howell Thomas (who was the son of William Thomas Howell of Blaennantyfedw) and Jane, daughter of Morgan Jones of Cwmclydach. He attended a school kept by one Tommy Morgan. He worked as a sawyer, like his father's but after studying hard became a schoolmaster for four or five years, first at his own home and then at Llwynypia. He then became a
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1671), leader of the free-communion Baptists in the South of that county in Restoration times in 1675 is that many strict Baptists of the Abergavenny church, who did not share the belief in the imposition of hands, allied themselves with the congregation of William Thomas. Under the penal code of Clarendon the area of his activities was the central hundreds of the county, with his headquarters at Llantrisant (he had married the daughter of George Morgan of that parish). He was about the
THOMAS, ZACHARIAS (1727 - 1816), Baptist minister Born at Esgair-ithri, Caeo, 13 (or 24?) August 1727, the youngest of five children born to Thomas Morgan Thomas and Jane, his wife, previously of Ty-Hen in the same parish, and brother of Joshua Thomas, Leominster and Timothy Thomas ' I,' Aberduar. He was baptized at Maes-y-berllan in 1748, during an apprenticeship at Hay, but returned and became a member at Pant Teg on the occasion of his
TILLEY, ALBERT (1896 - 1957), mace-bearer at Brecon cathedral and local historian E.F. Morgan and Sir John Conway Lloyd he specialised in the history of the town and of his adopted county. He devoted himself to collecting material on local history, copying inscriptions in churches and cemeteries and other sources. He possessed an artistic talent and interested himself in the heraldry of the county and in the pedigrees of its families. Amongst his leisure interests was the
TREFGARNE, GEORGE MORGAN (1st BARON TREFGARNE of Cleddau), (1894 - 1960), barrister-at-law and politician

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