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1033 - 1044 of 1463 for "Jane Williams"

  • THOMAS, EVAN LORIMER (1872 - 1953), priest and scholar , Oxfordshire, 1901-02, and Colwyn Bay, 1902-03. He married Mary Rice-Williams, Holyhead in 1903 and they had a son. In 1903 he became Professor of Welsh at St. David's College, Lampeter. There he made every effort to ensure the position of the Welsh language in the curriculum and in the life of the college. He revived the honours course in Welsh, established a Welsh Library which included the Cenarth
  • 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, HUGH OWEN (1834 - 1891), orthopaedic surgeon in treating chronic bone disease, whereby many a limb escaped amputation. He married Jane Owen of Tyn-llan, Bodedern, Anglesey, sister of Dr. Owen Roberts, S. Asaph, who later received all their five sons in turn as apprentices before they proceeded to medical schools at which they qualified. Thomas retired in 1863 to Bryn Eglwys, Llanfwrog, Anglesey, where he died in 1884. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben
  • THOMAS, IFOR OWEN (1892 - 1956), operatic tenor, photographer and artist honorary bard to the Gorsedd of Bards as ' Ifor o Fôn ', before sailing to the United States. Although he appeared with the Philadelphia Opera Company in 1928 he left the world of opera for the concert platform, broadcasting and recording for H.M.V. and Sanders. He became a great favourite with the American Welsh who dubbed him 'the second Evan Williams with a hint of Caruso '. He also sang with leading
  • THOMAS, ISAAC (1911 - 2004), minister (Independents) and college lecturer 1551-1620. He was awarded the Vernon Hull Memorial Prize by the Board of Celtic Studies twice for these masterpieces of research. Professor J. E. Caerwyn Williams wrote of him: 'He completed a task which sorely needed to be done, and he effected it in such a way that it will never again be needed to be done, so that all interested in Welsh and the Welsh Bible will be indebted to him.' He also
  • THOMAS, JOHN (1838 - 1905), photographer Born at Glan-rhyd, Cellan, Cardiganshire, 14 April 1838, son of David and Jane Thomas, went to Cellan school (where he became a pupil-teacher), and was apprenticed to a draper at Lampeter. From 1853 till 1863 he worked in a drapery shop at Liverpool; then illhealth drove him to seek outdoor work as commission-salesman for a stationery and photograph firm. Noting the scanty representation of Wales
  • THOMAS, JOHN (1821 - 1892), Independent minister, politician, and historian Williams. In 1831 he lost his father and, as he had to earn a living, became an assistant in a grocer's shop. This attempt lasted nine months and he was then apprenticed to a cobbler, one Dafydd Llwyd. He then left home and tramped over parts of Merionethshire looking unsuccessfully for work. Later, he went to Liverpool where he was employed for a few months and where he was admitted to full membership
  • THOMAS, JOHN (1730 - 1804?), Congregational minister, and hymnist personality was highly complex - he was warm spirited and exceedingly aware of sin. He married Miss Elizabeth Jones of Dyffryn Cothi, parish of Llanfynydd. His Rhad Ras (published in 1810), which may be called the first Welsh autobiography, and the hymns of William Williams (Pantycelyn) are perhaps the most eloquent expressions of the spirit of the Welsh religious revival of the 18th century. He published
  • THOMAS, JOHN (1736 - 1769), cleric and antiquary says that Hugh Maurice used many of them in preparing The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales. None of John Thomas's work was published during his life, but Sir J. E. Lloyd has shown (on the testimony of John Lloyd of Caerwys and of Gwallter Mechain) that he was the author of the anonymous History of the Island of Anglesey of 1775, and William Williams of Llandygài, included in his own Observations on the
  • THOMAS, JOHN (Eos Gwynedd; 1742 - 1818), poet Born at Bwlchmaenmelyn, a farmhouse in the parish of Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire. He married a daughter of Cernioge Mawr in 1765. He settled in Pentrefoelas where he kept a shop and farmed. In 1817 he published Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst. A selection of his works, edited by William Williams (Gwilym Caledfryn), was published in 1845 under
  • THOMAS, JOHN (1691 - 1766), bishop of Salisbury There is a short but interesting account of his career in the D.N.B.; he was born 23 June 1691, and died 19 July 1766. His father was a brewer's drayman, but Robert Williams (Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen) states - without giving the source of his information - that the bishop was born at Dolgelley.
  • THOMAS, JOHN EVAN (1810 - 1873), sculptor Born at Brecon 15 January 1810, the eldest son of John Thomas, Castle Street, and Jane (Evans) his wife. He studied in London under Chantrey and afterwards on the Continent, began to work independently in 1834, and was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy between 1835 and 1857. He had a very successful career, and many of his works are to be seen in Wales and elsewhere - in his home town