Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, LAWRENCE (1889 - 1960), archdeacon , near Oxford, and was also a student at St. John's College Oxford, where he gained B.A. (3rd-class honours) Divinity 1916, M.A. 1920. From 1916-24 he served as curate of St. John's, Cardiff. He obtained the living of Briton Ferry in 1924 where he remained until 1942, continuing his studies. He gained B. Litt. at Oxford in 1926; B.D. Trinity College Dublin in 1929 and D.D. 1930. In 1930 he published
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist Born 29 February 1908 in Primrose Cottage, Holway, Holywell, Flintshire, only child of Walter Owen Davies, master saddler and his wife, Elizabeth Jane (née Jones). The mother died 3 February 1909 aged 26 and the grandmother helped to rear the child. The family moved to Yscawen, Rhuddlan, where the father obtained work as a grocer, and Louie Myfanwy was educated at the Church elementary school and
THOMAS, MANSEL TREHARNE (1909 - 1986), composer, conductor, BBC Wales Head of Music expressed himself more naturally and spontaneously in works of short and medium duration than in extended forms, such as oratorio, opera and symphony. His composing career spanned almost 60 years and fell approximately into 3 periods - up to and including World War II; 1946 to his early retirement in 1965; and 1965 to 1979. His first notable composition - “Daffodils”/“Cennin Aur” - was written in the mid
THOMAS, OWEN (1812 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author received a call to Pen-mount church, Pwllheli, where he was ordained in September of the same year. In 1846 he moved to Newtown to take charge of an English church, and at the end of 1851 received a call to be minister of Jewin Crescent, London. On 24 January 1860 he married Ellen (died 1867), youngest daughter of the Rev. William Roberts of Amlwch (1784 - 1864). In 1865 he moved to Liverpool, first to
THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD (1878 - 1917), poet Born 3 March 1878, at Lambeth, son of Philip Henry Thomas, Tredegar, clerk in the civil service, and Mary Elizabeth (née Townsend). He was educated at S. Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford, 1898-1900, and early showed his love of the countryside, unspoiled people, and literature. He married Helen Berenice Noble, 20 June 1899; there were three children: Mervyn, born 1900, Bronwen 1904, and
THOMAS, ROBERT (1782 - 1860), printer and publisher Glenelg on 28 December 1836. He printed and published the next issue of The Register in Adelaide on 3 June 1837, i.e. less than a year after leaving Britain. Robert Thomas & Co. became a very successful family-owned printing and publishing house in Adelaide, and The Register became a daily paper owned by members of the Thomas family. Robert Thomas died on 1 July 1860 in Adelaide. His wife Mary died on
THOMAS, ROBERT DAVID (Iorthryn Gwynedd; 1817 - 1888), Independent minister minister of Rome and Floyd, Oneida County, N.Y., and then became the first minister of Mahanoy City Independent church where he remained until 1870. In 1872 he went to Knoxville, Tennessee, and afterwards (1875) to Columbus, Ohio, where he remained until 1877. He visited Wales in 1872-3. He died 25 November 1888 and was buried in Gray cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee. He was a regular contributor to the
THOMAS, THOMAS (1805 - 1881), Baptist minister and college principal retired to Cardiff, where he died 7 December 1881. He was buried at Pen-y-garn, Pontypool. Thomas was president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1872-3 - the first Welsh -speaking Welshman to be thus honoured. He married Mary David, Cardiff, in 1830. She died in March, 1881. One son survived him - T. H. Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn).
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 (Glanffrwd; 1843 - 1890), cleric and author had a stroke and was moved to his brother Morgan Thomas's house at Pontypridd, where he died early on Thursday morning, 3 October 1890. He was buried on Monday, 7 October, in Llanwynno churchyard. He was a delightful character and was loved wherever he went. He was also an enthusiastic and hard-working supporter of the eisteddfod, at which he was a frequent competitor and where he won a number of
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1671), leader of the free-communion Baptists in the South of that county in Restoration times It is believed, but not with certain proof, that he (as a Baptist) was one of the assistants of William Wroth at Llanfaches; it is certain that he was not the William Thomas who was baptized by Miles at Ilston in November 1650. It is easy to believe that he was friendly with Walter Cradock, and that he was one of the Puritan preachers who fled to Bristol and London in 1642-3; when he returned
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

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