Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, JOHN (1838 - 1905), photographer as ' The Cambrian Gallery,' a name which it retained (at various addresses) for thirty years, until it became ' Yr Oriel Gymreig,' when it was acquired by (Sir) Owen M. Edwards. In 1867, too, Thomas made his first professional visit to Wales - to photograph the Calvinistic Methodist General Assembly, then in session at Llanidloes. Thereafter he travelled the length and breadth of Wales
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, JOSEPH (1814 - 1889), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 17 September 1814 in Llangynog toll-house, Montgomeryshire, the son of Edward Thomas (of Nantlle Vale), quarryman, and Mary (Morris), his wife. Joseph had very little schooling before he was sent to work in the quarry. He became keenly interested in the temperance movement, and lectured on this subject in various places. Towards the end of 1840, Lewis Edwards heard him speaking at a
THOMAS, JOSEPH MORGAN (1868 - 1955), minister (U) and Free Catholic, councillor and public figure
THOMAS, JOSEPH WILLIAM (1846 - 1914), chemist
THOMAS, JOSHUA (1719 - 1797), Baptist minister and historian , 18 pp. in all; in 1795 he published a History of the Welsh Association, 1650-1790. Gradually his work as Baptist historian became known over the Border: in 1803 Samuel Palmer quotes from the Hanes in the third volume of the Nonconformist's Memorial, in 1811 Joseph Ivimey refers to the work with great respect in the first volume on the History of English Baptists. He still went on writing; in 1791
THOMAS, JOSHUA (d. 1759?), cleric and translator explaining the significance of the change of reckoning time (in 1752) from 'Old Style' to 'New Style.' He had previously published Y Fuchedd Gris'nogol, o'i Dechreu, i'w Diwedd mewn Gogoniant … gan Joan Scott, D.D., Person S. Giles yn y Meusydd yn Llundain. A Chyfieithad Josua Thomas, Ficer Llanbister yn Sir Faesyfed, a Merthyr Cynog ym Mrycheiniog, a Chaplain i'r Gwir Anrhydeddus Iarll Powis (London, John
THOMAS, LEWIS (1568 - 1619), cleric and author : Certain Lectures upon Sundry Portions of Scripture, 1600. This was dedicated to Sir Thomas Egerton, lord keeper of the great seal, one of Thomas's first patrons.
THOMAS, Sir NOAH (1720 - 1792), medical man
THOMAS, Sir (1858 - 1923), agriculturist, soldier, and Member of Parliament
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant this ministry was taken over by Lord Beaverbrook he was made director. When the Ministry of Production was set up in 1942 he became regional director and chairman of the Welsh region, a post he held while the ministry existed. Sir Stafford Cripps invited him to continue as an independent chairman of the Welsh board and as a member of the National Productivity Advisory Council. He became one of the
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress fruitful collaboration with John Hefin continued in the striking productions A Bus to Bosworth (prod./dir. John Hefin, BBC, 1976), Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (prod./dir. John Hefin, 1978), a screen adaptation by Elaine Morgan of Jack Jones's volume on Joseph Parry, the musician from Merthyr, and The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (dir. John Hefin, BBC, 1981). In this period she also

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