Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, EBENEZER (Eben Fardd; 1802 - 1863), schoolmaster and poet the Miltonic style of the poem in the free metres 'Yr Atgyfodiad.' Eben Fardd was indeed the focus of much of the literary activity of the first half of the 19th century. His collected works were published under the title Gweithiau Barddonol, &c., Eben Fardd (in 1873 as it is supposed), edited by Howell Roberts and William Jones. His antiquarian interest is evinced in the volume entitled Cyff Beuno
THOMAS, EVAN ROBERT (1891 - 1964), joiner and leader of the Welsh in Australia Born 8 January 1891 at Yspyty Ifan, Denbighshire, son of Robert E. Thomas and Jane his wife, but the family moved to Trefriw, Caernarfonshire, and he was educated in Llanrwst county school. He emigrated to Australia c. 1908. He was a joiner and a noted craftsman and many of his fine wooden panels are in the public buildings of Melbourne. He knew the problems facing an immigrant and made a
THOMAS, EVAN (c. 1710 - c. 1770), poet and boot-maker
THOMAS, GEORGE (1786 - 1859), writer of mock-heroic and satiric verse dealing with events in Montgomeryshire Born c. 1786 in Wollerton in the parish of Hodnet, Shropshire, the son of James Thomas, a wool stapler and his wife Margaret (Davies), who married at Berriew, Montgomeryshire in 1788. They moved to Newtown the following year - James is described as a flannel manufacturer - and then to Shrewsbury and to Welshpool. George received some education at Park's school, Shrewsbury, assisted his father in
THOMAS, HENRY (1712 - 1802), Methodist exhorter and Independent minister a native of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. He first comes to our notice as a teacher in the circulating schools in Glamorgan who occasionally exhorted in the Methodist societies. He married, c. 1747, Gwen, daughter of Jenkin David of Gellidochlaeth, near Crynant, and was given a house on the Gelli property in which to hold meetings - it was there, in all probability, that the early society of the
THOMAS, IDRIS (1889 - 1962), minister (B) Born 1889, the eldest of the seven children of Jenkin and Ann Thomas, Cilfynydd, Glamorganshire. When he was six years old the family moved to Moriah, near Aberystwyth, where his grandfather, Jenkin Thomas (c. 1824 - 1865), had been a minister (B). He went to work in a shop in Aberystwyth when he was 13 years old but 3 years later he returned to the south, to Abercynon, where he was encouraged to
THOMAS, JAMES PURDON LEWES (VISCOUNT CILCENNIN), (1903 - 1960), M.P. Born 13 October 1903, the son of J. Lewes Thomas, Cae-glas, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, and his wife Anne Louisa (née Purdon). He was educated at Rugby School and Oriel College, Oxford. He was a candidate (C) for the Llanelli division in the general election 1929, but received little support; he was elected M.P. for the Hereford division in 1931 and kept his seat until 1955. He was parliamentary
THOMAS, JOHN (fl. 1689-1712), minister of the Tivy-side Independents John Evans's list of ministers (c. 1715), and a deed resolving the property of his widow gives the date of his death as December 1712.
THOMAS, JOHN (1757 - 1835) Penfforddwen,, poet astronomy and prepared some almanacks. He published (a) Urania, neu Grefydd Ddadleuon, 1793 - a species of interlude; (b) Annerch Ieuengtyd Gymru, yn IV Rhan, 1795 (with two later eds.); (c) Telyn Arian, sef Llyfr Barddoniaeth, c. 1800 (and about six subsequent eds.); (d) Nabl Arian, sef Llyfr Barddoniaeth, 1827. He died at Overton, Flintshire, 2 January 1835, and was buried there.
THOMAS, JOHN (1760 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist minister preach c. 1795. He was selected to be ordained at the first Methodist ordination at Llandeilo, 1811. He preached severely but very excellently; a volume of his sermons was posthumously published. He died 3 February 1849 - the last survivor of those who were ordained in 1811.
THOMAS, JOHN ROWLAND (1881 - 1965), religious leader and prominent merchant London Caernarvonshire Society. Prominent (c. 1930) in establishing branches of Urdd Gobaith Cymru in several of London's Welsh chapels, he was one of the first Vice-Presidents of the Urdd. He was president of the Association of the Societies of London-Welsh Churches and a staunch life-long supporter. In 1913 he married Lily Anna Jones (died 1964), a Welsh lady born in London. At their home, ' Y Nant
THOMAS, MARGARET (1779 - ?), hymnwriter daughter of William Llwyd of Vaenol, near Bangor, Caernarfonshire. As a young woman she married one Edmund Williams; her second marriage (c. 1817) was with Edward Thomas of Tal-y-bont Uchaf, Llanllechid, an elder at Gatws church (Calvinistic Methodist), near Bangor. Her hymns are found written on the blank pages of an old edition of the Bible, T. Charles's Geiriadur, and an old copy of the Book

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