Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, JOHN (1821 - 1892), Independent minister, politician, and historian in the plan to build a Memorial College at Brecon. He agitated vigorously for a single college for the whole denomination, a policy which upset the supporters of the other colleges, particularly of Bala Independent College, and brought about the 'Battle of the Constitutions' (1877-85) which split the denomination in two, one party following him, and the other M. D. Jones. He did not confine his
THOMAS, LEWIS (fl. first half of the 20th century) south Wales, pioneer of the art of Cerdd Dant daughter Amy married T. H. Parry-Williams, and his daughter Mary married D. J. Llewelfryn Davies. They built a house and an attached shop and for years he kept the shop and trained his apprentice shoemakers in a workshop at the rear. Later he was a rates collector for Llanelli Council. He and his wife were prominent in the cultural and social activities of the village. He was an eisteddfod enthusiast
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman considerable attention but it was only the outbreak of war that saw her cease protesting - for its duration. Unlike most married women, she was employed, working at Cardiff Docks in the headquarters of her father's industrial enterprise. One of only three women employees - the other two were telephonists - she was D. A. Thomas's personal assistant and one of the best paid women in Britain, earning £1,000
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress regularly on the small screen in both Welsh and English productions, such as the plays Y Dieithryn (author D. T. Davies, prod. Dafydd Gruffydd, BBC, 1957), After the Funeral (author Alun Owen, dir. Ted Kotcheff, ITV, 1960) and Y Darn Arian (John Eilian's translation of a play by Arthur O. Roberts, 1961). Her first opportunity to perform in a television play had been when she appeared alongside Stanley
THOMAS, RHYS (1720? - 1790), printer the Welsh Language, by John Walters, printed at Cowbridge in 1771, bears the name of R. and D. Thomas. At the end of 1769 or the beginning of 1770 Rhys Thomas set up a press at Cowbridge. It has been suggested that he was urged to do so by the lexicographer John Walters, who lived at Llandough nearby. Whether that was so or not, the connection between the two men was to last for about twenty years
THOMAS, ROBERT (Ap Vychan; 1809 - 1880), Independent minister and tutor, poet and man of letters preaching festival. As far as his tenets were concerned he insisted that he was a moderate Calvinist. He had a most gracious personality and his opinion and advice were eagerly sought. He was one of the very few who kept their reputations untarnished throughout the 'Battle of the Constitutions' in connection with Bala College; and he stood firmly by the side of his friend M. D. Jones to the end. ELLIS
THOMAS, SIMON (d. 1743?), Presbyterian minister and author Very little is known about him. D. Lleufer Thomas, in his article in the D.N.B. on Joshua Thomas, says that he was the latter's uncle, and that Joshua Thomas was apprenticed to him at Hereford in 1739. According to Joshua Thomas (Hanes y Bedyddwyr ymhlith y Cymry, 1st imp., xxvii), he was born at Cilgwyn, near Lampeter. It is obvious that he had had a classical education somewhere. T. Eirug
THOMAS, THOMAS (1839 - 1888), Wesleyan minister, and miscellaneous writer - following the example of his former master, Hugh Humphreys (to whose magazine, Golud yr Oes, 1862-4, he was a contributor) - in the production of popular books. Three especially of these may be mentioned: Llyfr Pawb ar Bob Peth (n. d.); Hynodion Hen Bregethwyr Cymru (1872); and Grammadeg Areithyddiaeth (1873); these three had a wide sale. Thomas also contributed to the periodicals of his connexion, Yr
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
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 (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet Born 3 April 1832 at Tŷ'r Agent near Ynys-ddu, a village in the Sirhowy valley, Monmouthshire. His two brothers, David Thomas and John Thomas, were surveyors and engineers and Islwyn began to learn the rudiments of their profession, but his brother-in-law, the Rev. D. Jenkyns ('Jenkyns y Babell') saw that he had the making of a preacher and he was sent to schools at Tredegar, Newport, and
TREGELLES, SAMUEL PRIDEAUX (1813 - 1875), Biblical scholar and linguist . Although Tregelles left the Plymouth Brethren for the Church of England, he retained to the end some of their characteristic doctrines. Educated at the Rev. T. Sheepshank's grammar school, Falmouth (1825-8), he moved, when 15 years of age, to Neath Abbey, where he was engaged in the iron-works (1829-35), probably as a clerk, but according to D. Rhys Phillips, he was there apprenticed as an engineer and

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