Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, ROWLAND (c. 1887 - 1959), newspaper proprietor Montgomeryshire Express, and in 1932 developed the Welsh language newspaper Y Cymro (formerly of Dolgellau) as a national weekly paper for Wales. In 1921 he acquired the Welsh book publishing company of Hughes and Son, and the Principality Press, Wrexham. Although he did not speak Welsh, he did all in his power to sustain the language. On the advice of a panel of leading Welsh scholars and authors he printed
THOMAS, SIENCYN (1690 - 1762), boot-maker, Dissenting preacher, and poet The son of Thomas Morgan, miller, of Tre Wen, Brongwyn, Cardiganshire. He lived at Cwm Du. According to the evidence of the elegy written upon him by his son, John Jenkin, he was born in 1690. He began his career as a Dissenting preacher in 1716 and attended to the spiritual needs of the congregations at Tre-wen and Llechryd. His englynion ' In Laudem Authoris ' in Drych y Prif Oesoedd, 1716, and
THOMAS, SIMON (d. 1743?), Presbyterian minister and author ministers) of the local congregation, for in that month he was one of the witnesses to the will of his senior co-minister, John Weaver (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1943, 105). His first and best-known book was Hanes y Byd a'r Amseroedd, 1718, a kind of encyclopaedia with a distinct anti-Papal bias, which was very popular, being reprinted three times (1721, 1724, 1728) in his
THOMAS, THOMAS (1776 - 1847), cleric and historian son of John Thomas (1721 - 1795), rector of Aberporth, curate of Llandygwydd, Blaenporth and Llechryd, and schoolmaster at Llechryd. He was born at Tre-wen, Blaenporth, in 1776, but the family moved to Henbant, Llandygwydd, about 1785. Educated by his father and at the Carmarthen grammar school under Barker, he was ordained curate, 21 September 1788, and priest, 10 October 1789. He served a cure
THOMAS, THOMAS (1804 - 1877), cleric Born 7 September 1804, son of John Thomas of Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig and matriculated in the University of Oxford from Jesus College, 29 March 1824. He took his B.A. in 1827, and after a year's teaching in Liverpool was ordained deacon by bishop Luxmoore of S. Asaph, 20 July 1828, and licensed to Llanfair Caer Einion. He received priest ' orders
THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons He was born on 29 January 1909 at Port Talbot, the son of Zachariah Thomas (1881-1925), a coalminer and native of Carmarthen, and Emma Jane (1881-1972), the daughter of John Tilbury of Lanfield, Hampshire. His father was a drunkard who deserted his wife, leaving her to bring up five children alone. He was then raised by his mother in the village of Trealaw just across the river from the town of
THOMAS, THOMAS HENRY (Arlunydd Penygarn; 1839 - 1915), artist Born 31 March 1839 at the Baptist College, Pontypool, son of Thomas Thomas (1805 - 1851), and his wife, Mary David, Cardiff. He was educated at home and at an academy kept by Dr. Bompas in Bristol before he entered the Bristol School of Art, whence he went (1858) to Carey's Art School, London, and to the Royal Academy Schools; he later went to Paris, Rome, etc. At Rome he came to know John Gibson
THOMAS, THOMAS JACOB (Sarnicol; 1873 - 1945), schoolmaster, writer and poet . He became a pupil-teacher there, but, following an altercation with his headmaster, he left to continue his education at Talgarreg school. Being a frail child his parents were advised to send him for a period to New Quay where there was a noted grammar school kept by C.J. Hughes. He stayed there for four years taking Department of Science and Art examinations. In 1891 he won a £20 scholarship at
THOMAS, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1840 - 1897), scholar, teacher and linguist and 1895, but it was John Rhŷs who succeeded Harper. In 1897 he accepted the canonry of St. Asaph from the Crown, but died before his installation. Llewelyn Thomas contributed scholarly articles on the Basque language to The Academy, 21 January 1893, 23 June 1894, 1 February 1896, and 8 February 1896. His treatise on the Basque manuscripts shows that he had a mastery of that language. It was he who
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1694 - 1751), cleric and scholar man when he was asked to complete the work on an edition of the poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, which had been begun by John Urry (died 1715) and continued by Thomas Ainsworth (died 1719). This work, a large folio, published in London in 1721, has a preface by Timothy Thomas, who was also responsible for the glossary; William Thomas corrected and enlarged the life of Chaucer, originally prepared by John
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1720 - 1768) Maes-isaf, Pencarreg, Baptist minister and author Emlyn. THOMAS THOMAS (1759 - 1819), minister and author Literature and Writing Religion Second son of the second marriage of Timothy Thomas 'I,' and twin brother of John Thomas, M.R.C.S., Aberduar, was born 5 March 1759. He was educated at the school of David Davis, Castell-hywel, and was baptized at Aberduar by David Saunders 'I' March 1776. Admitted to Bristol Baptist Academy in 1777, he was
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist Born at Bangor 25 September 1856, elder son of Robert Hughes Thomas, chief smith at the Penrhyn quarry, and of Elinor his wife. He served as pupil-teacher under T. Marchant Williams, but became (c. 1872) an accountant in a Manchester office. He began to preach at Gartside Street chapel, Manchester, and then went to Bala Independent College, under M. D. Jones; there he added 'Ceinion' (later

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