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1033 - 1044 of 1183 for "henry morgan"

  • 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. 1554), Italian scholar and clerk of the Privy Council to king Edward VI king Henry VIII - II Pellegrino Inglese ne'l quale si defende l'innocente & la sincera vita de'l pio & religioso re d' Inghilterra Henrico ottauo (1552, probably printed in Venice; see English translation, published in 1861, edited by J. A. Froude). He returned to England in 1549, in which year his Historie of Italie (another ed. in 1561) and Of the Vanitee of this World were published. His Principal
  • THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1671), leader of the free-communion Baptists in the South of that county in Restoration times , his name does not appear upon the pay-sheets of either the Propagators or the ' Triers,' the inference being that he had no love for tithe-money or for association with the State. He kept his people from yielding to the pressure of Independency on the one side and from accepting the arguments of the 'close' Baptists for exclusionist communion on the other; indeed, the point of Henry Maurice's words
  • 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
  • TOY, HUMFREY (d. 1575), merchant The first New Testament in Welsh (1567 - William Salesbury), and the first Welsh translation of the Book of Common Prayer (also 1567 - bishop Richard Davies) were printed in London by Henry Denham ' at the costes and charges of Humfrey Toy.' It has been suggested that the latter was Humfrey Toy of Carmarthen and not his nephew, also Humfrey Toy, who was a bookseller in London and became under
  • TREFGARNE, GEORGE MORGAN (1st BARON TREFGARNE of Cleddau), (1894 - 1960), barrister-at-law and politician
  • TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, The Trevalun Trevors were founded by RICHARD, sometimes called Sir RICHARD TREVOR (fl. 1500), 4th son of John Trevor ' hên ' and sixteenth in descent 'o dad i dad' from Tudur Trevor of Brynkynallt, who acquired the estate by marriage with Mallt, heiress of David ap Gruffydd of Allington (died 1476). Richard's great-grandson JOHN TREVOR (died 1589) fought in the French wars of Henry VIII as a
  • TREVOR, JOHN (d. 1410), bishop of St Asaph had started, he is found deputising in Wales for prince Henry, afterwards Henry V. But suddenly towards the end of the following year he transferred his allegiance to Glyn Dŵr. Though the facts of his career suggest that he was a typical self-seeking churchman of his age, it is to his credit that before he adhered to the patriot cause he had protested unavailingly in Parliament against high-handed
  • TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (d. c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary the manor of Icomb in Gloucestershire which had belonged to her father and was inherited by her eldest son. James Whitney died on 30 June 1500, leaving Blanche with Robert aged thirteen years, and James, Watkin and Elizabeth who were younger. (Elizabeth's daughter, Ann Morgan of Arkstone, Herefordshire, married Henry Carey, later Lord Hunsdon by licence on 21 May 1545; he was the son of Mary Boleyn
  • TUDOR, EDMUND (c. 1430 - 1456) Father of Henry VII, eldest son of Owain Tudor by Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V. For the circumstances of his parents' marriage, see the article on Owain Tudor. Brought up in England under the tutelage of his royal half-brother, Henry VI, by whom he was created earl of Richmond in 1452-3, he had no connection with Wales until after his marriage in 1455 to the lady Margaret Beaufort