Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, LEWIS (fl. first half of the 20th century) south Wales, pioneer of the art of Cerdd Dant Born at Pontyberem, Gwendraeth Valley, Carmarthenshire, 30 May 1877, the eldest of nine sons of William Thomas, a collier, and his wife, Jane. Lewis worked in the mines for a short period before being apprenticed and gaining his trade as a local shoemaker. In 1905 he married Mary Emiah Jones, a teacher at Pontyberem, but originally from Llan-non, Llanelli. They had a son and two daughters. His
THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN (1883 - 1970), missionary in India with the London Missionary Society Born 2 February 1883 at Llangefni, Anglesey, son of Cefni and Mary (née Williams) Thomas. The family moved to Rhiwbryfdir, Blaenau Ffestiniog, when he was five. After a period as a pupil-teacher and working on the railway, he moved to Corwen and then Birkenhead. There he came under the influence of the 1904-05 religious revival and began preaching; he had wished to become a missionary since he
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist prize for a novel in a competition held by Y Cymro in 1953 (Y Cymro, 30 October 1953): the adjudicators were Islwyn Ffowc Elis, J. Roberts Williams and T. Bassett. Her pen-name was ' Jini Jos ' and it was announced that the winner was Jane Ann Jones : ' The secret is to be kept ', said Y Cymro. She competed periodically at the national eisteddfod and submitted Diwrnod yw ein bywyd in the novel
THOMAS, MANSEL TREHARNE (1909 - 1986), composer, conductor, BBC Wales Head of Music /late 1920s specially for the newly-formed Pendyrus Male Choir which rehearsed next to his home in Tylorstown. The partsong became so well known that W. S. Gwynn Williams (Gwynn Publishers) requested a mixed choir version of it for publication in 1939, and that soon surpassed in popularity its TTBB original. Songs and choral music are significant in all the periods and are perhaps the elements by
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
THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian Born 8 July 1874, in Talysarn, Dyffryn Nantlle, Caernarfonshire, the son of Robert Thomas, quarryman, and his wife. The father died when the Nantlle lake burst its banks, and 8 workmen were killed. Morris Thomas was only 12 years old, but at that age the boy had to go to work in the quarry. His minister, William Williams, saw that he was exceptionally able and gave him encouragement and
THOMAS, NICHOLAS (d. 1741), printer and publisher him his patronage in 1718 and for a time afterwards - that is, at the start of the venture. He set up his own press at Carmarthen in 1721 - the first in that town; for the titles of some of the productions of his press see Ifano Jones, A history of printing and printers in Wales. One John Williams was in partnership with him for a time; e.g. when they jointly printed (at the end of 1733) John
THOMAS, OLIVER (1598 - 1653?), Puritan cleric, and author reprinted in 1930, may also be confidently ascribed to him; it is so ascribed by Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, 1691 edn., i, 860) on the authority of Thomas's contemporary, Michael Roberts (died 1679), by Stephen Hughes in Tryssor (1677), and by Moses Williams in his list of Welsh printed books (1717). Oliver Thomas's Welsh prose is excellent.
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress Leyshon Williams, with Clydach Thomas, Haydn Davies and Gunstone Jones playing the other main parts. During the 1930s she appeared in various stage plays, including a Welsh version of Jack Jones's novel, Land of My Fathers, directed by Kitchener Davies, in the National Eisteddfod at Cardiff in 1938, and she toured with the Principality Players in 1939 in an English stage version. She was also busy on
THOMAS, RICHARD (1871 - 1950), minister (CM) and writer for orphans from 1904 to 1945 and was a governor until his death on 5 April 1950. His publications include David Livingstone (1912), David Williams, y Piwritan (1928), and Cartre'r Plant (1951). He won a National Eisteddfod prize for translations of legal terms into Welsh, and was for many years editor of the Year-book and Diary of his denomination.
THOMAS, RICHARD (1753 - 1780), cleric, transcriber and collector of manuscripts, and genealogist Born 10 December 1753, son of Thomas Rowland, Tuhwnt i'r Bwlch, parish of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, and Jane (Jones), his wife (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 359). He was a pupil at Friars School, Bangor, before he went to Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 28 November 1771, B.A. 1775). Towards the end of 1777 he became curate at Llanegryn, Meironnydd, and master at the school there - and
THOMAS, ROBERT (Ap Vychan; 1809 - 1880), Independent minister and tutor, poet and man of letters , and the boy was not backward in snatching at every opportunity of acquiring knowledge. By the time he was 14 he could shape an englyn, and on the strength of this ability was admitted a member of the Cymreigyddion Society of Llanuwchllyn. On 1 March 1826, Michael Jones made him a grant from the Dr. Daniel Williams bequest (to enable poor children to learn a trade), and on the strength of this he was

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