Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS family Coed Helen (or Alun), Aber, father in the possession of all the family's estates in Caernarvonshire, consisting of the manor of Aber and various land and property in Caernarvon and elsewhere, including ' Coed Alen,' and also, possibly, of some specified lands in Anglesey. In 1618 he had married Catherine, daughter of Richard Parry, bishop of St Asaph. At the time of his father's death, William had two sons, Richard and Gruffydd
THOMAS PENLLYN (d. 1623), poet Cardiff MS. 20. He composed a number of cywyddau to members of the Salusbury family of Lleweni and to Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd. Elegies on his death by Richard Phillip and Gruffydd Hafren are found in NLW MS 719B and Cwrtmawr MS 11B.
THOMAS, DAVID RICHARD (1833 - 1916), cleric and historian a far wider popular appeal, The Life and Work of Bishop Richard Davies and William Salesbury, 1902. But his magnum opus is his History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, which was published in its original form in 1870-4, but which was enlarged into three volumes, 1906-13. Up to the present, St Asaph is the only one of the Welsh dioceses which has had its history investigated in such detail; and the
THOMAS, EDWARD (Cochfarf; 1853 - 1912), carpenter, politician and Mayor of Cardiff Preservation of the Welsh Language. It was at his Custom House Coffee Tavern that the society known as ' Cymmrodorion Caerdydd ' was formed; Cochfarf was one of the most influential members of that society. Cochfarf married (1) a daughter of Dr. Cook, Ynyspenllwch, and (2) a daughter of the Rev. Richard Hughes (Tremrudd), Maes-teg. The second wife, Madame Hughes-Thomas, became very widely known because of
THOMAS, HUGH OWEN (1834 - 1891), orthopaedic surgeon Llanfairynghornwy church by viscount Bulkeley in which tribute was paid to him as a public benefactor. RICHARD EVANS (1771 - 1851), bonesetter Medicine Cilmaenan, Llanfaethlu; son of Evan Thomas and known as Richard ap Evan, afterwards Richard Evans. He practised bonesetting successfully and was of the same austere conscientious disposition as his father. He was, however, not so widely known. EVAN THOMAS (1804
THOMAS, JAMES HENRY (1874 - 1949), politician and Labour leader and was elected to the Swindon town council where he gained valuable experience in public affairs. In 1904 he was elected president of the A.S.R.S.; he was re-elected in 1905. In the following years he was employed wholly as a trade union organiser in Manchester and then in south Wales. In 1910 Richard Bell disagreed with the policy of the A.S.R.S. in affiliating to the Labour Party and resigned his
THOMAS, JOHN (1886 - 1933), chemist Born 2 April 1886 at Whitford, Flintshire, son of Richard Thomas, blacksmith, and Elizabeth (Morris), his wife. The family moved to Harlech, where the son was educated at the local board school; later he went to Barmouth county school. He entered University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1904 as Sir Alfred Jones scholar, and graduated in 1907 with 1st class honours in chemistry. A year of
THOMAS, JOHN (1730 - 1804?), Congregational minister, and hymnist Wales. Liking the Congregational church system, he joined that body and on the recommendation of some Congregational ministers, he was received into the Academy at Abergavenny in 1761. Here he devoted more time to preaching and exhorting than to his studies. He was ordained, 23 April 1767, as minister of Rhayader, Cae Bach, Llandrindod, and Garn by Edmund Jones, Isaac Price and, Richard Tibbott
THOMAS, JOHN (1736 - 1769), cleric and antiquary Born 22 October 1736 at Tyddyn Ysguboriau, Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Thomas Rowland; Richard Thomas (1753 - 1780) was his brother, and Ellis Owen of Cefnymeusydd was his sister's son. He was schooled at Llanystumdwy, Llanegryn, Botwnnog, and Friars (Bangor). He matriculated 20 March 1755 from Jesus College, Oxford, where John Lloyd 'of Caerwys' (1733 - 1793) was a friend of his; and
THOMAS, JOSEPH MORGAN (1868 - 1955), minister (U) and Free Catholic, councillor and public figure theology, and in 1918 he published a pamphlet, Tradition and outlook of the Old Meeting Church, and another in 1921, What the Old Meeting Church stands for. No doubt it was his work on Richard Baxter's autobiography during these years that gave rise to his dream of establishing a catholic church to include 'every true Christian in the world'. He published an abridged version of Reliquiae Baxterianae, his
THOMAS, LEWIS (d. March 1704), one of the chief leaders of the Particular Baptists after the migration of John Miles to America; a native of Margam. He was baptized at Ilston in November 1650, and figured prominently in the complicated circuit arrangements made by Miles in 1657. Later he made his home at the Mŵr by Newton Nottage, and in 1669 he is reported as preaching illegally in the company of Richard Cradock the Independent at Cradock ' house. Under the Declaration of 1672
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist -named) references to them in her work, especially Y bryniau pell and to a lesser extent, Diwrnod yw ein bywyd. Many of the situations and events in Y bryniau pell are autobiographical and she has many scathing references to preachers and ministers and to her own circumstances as an orphan and the subject of comment. She married Richard Thomas, Chief Clerk in the Education Dept. of Denbighshire County

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