Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian (London) agreed that he should be trained at their Academy free of charge, and he was duly admitted. In 1792 the Academy, now in charge of Jenkin Lewis, was moved to Wrexham where Roberts spent three years. Before finishing his course he was invited to assist Richard Tibbott at Llanbryn-mair; he began his work there January 1795 and was ordained 25 August 1796. On Tibbott's death he was elected in March
ROBERTS, MORRIS (d. c. 1723), poet, and carpenter a native of Tynllidiart, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd, who later lived at Bala. He was a Congregationalist. His daughter married John Evans of Bala, Methodist exhorter (1723 - 1817). Examples of his poetry, in strict and free metres, are found in manuscript; they include cywyddau, one on Bala Lake, and another on Judgement Day, and englynion composed to each other by Richard John Jenkin and himself
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Nefydd; 1813 - 1872), Baptist minister, printer, author, eisteddfodwr, South Wales representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society the removal to Blaenau; the second wife was the widow of Jenkin Edwards. The Nefydd manuscripts (including letters) were transferred to the N.L.W. in 1930 in two groups (NLW MS 7011-7175 and NLW MS 7176-7189), to be followed in 1933 by a third group (NLW MS 7768-7779) and, in 1934, by a fourth group (NLW MS 9637-9639); for details see N.L.W. Handlist of MSS., x, 231-4.
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate this work by Rees Jenkin Jones of Aberdare, who had contributed to earlier volumes. He, in turn, invited (Sir) John Edward Lloyd, in August 1892, to undertake some of the biographies allocated to him. In all, Thomas contributed 27 biographies. In the meantime he had, in 1892, been appointed assistant commissioner to the royal commission on labour, and conducted enquiries in Wales which are embodied
THOMAS, DAVID VAUGHAN (1873 - 1934), musician Born 15 March 1873 at Ystalyfera, Glamorganshire, son of Jenkin Thomas. He took the name Vaughan in 1911 when he became a member of the Gorsedd of Bards in Carmarthen eisteddfod. He attended Watcyn Wyn's school in Ammanford, and from 1873 to 1883 the family lived in Ystalyfera, Llantrisant, Maesteg, Llangennech and Dowlais. The family moved to Pontardulais, and Vaughan Thomas received his early
THOMAS, EVAN (Ieuan Fardd Ddu; 1733 - 1814), printer and translator . Wood, the first publisher of the Shrewsbury Chronicle. He wrote or translated Anfeidrol werthfawrogrwydd Enaid Dyn, 1767, and Barnedigaethau ofnadwy Duw, 1767. He translated Grace Abounding (John Bunyan) under the title Helaethrwydd o Ras, 1767; A Life of Faith (W. Romaine), under the title Traethawd ar Fywyd Ffydd, 1767; and edited Hymnau cymmwys i addoliad Duw o waith y diweddar Parch. Jenkin Jones
THOMAS, EVAN (Bardd Horeb; 1795 - 1867), poet and tailor Evan Thomas was the eldest son of Benjamin Thomas of Llandysul, who was the 8th son of Thomas Francis of Melin Pant Olwen on the banks of the river Cerdin and his wife (the daughter of the poet Ifan Tomos Rhys of Llanarth). He married Margaret Charles, daughter of H. Charles of Cwrt Manarorion, Llangeler, and grand-daughter of Jenkin Jones of Llwyn-rhyd-Owen. Although he lived for a time at
THOMAS, HENRY (1712 - 1802), Methodist exhorter and Independent minister a native of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. He first comes to our notice as a teacher in the circulating schools in Glamorgan who occasionally exhorted in the Methodist societies. He married, c. 1747, Gwen, daughter of Jenkin David of Gellidochlaeth, near Crynant, and was given a house on the Gelli property in which to hold meetings - it was there, in all probability, that the early society of the
THOMAS, IDRIS (1889 - 1962), minister (B) Born 1889, the eldest of the seven children of Jenkin and Ann Thomas, Cilfynydd, Glamorganshire. When he was six years old the family moved to Moriah, near Aberystwyth, where his grandfather, Jenkin Thomas (c. 1824 - 1865), had been a minister (B). He went to work in a shop in Aberystwyth when he was 13 years old but 3 years later he returned to the south, to Abercynon, where he was encouraged to
THOMAS, JENKIN (Siencyn Pen-hydd; 1746 - 1807), Methodist exhorter
THOMAS, JENKIN - see THOMAS, SIENCYN (1690-1762)
THOMAS, JOHN (fl. 1689-1712), minister of the Tivy-side Independents He lived at Llwyn-y-grawys, Llangoedmor, near Cardigan; nothing is known of his family, and little of his career; unsupported tradition makes him a university man. He was a member of a mixed (Independent and Baptist) congregation on Tivy-side; one of the houses at which it gathered for worship was Rhosgilwern (Kilgerran), which is thought to have been the home of Jenkin Jones (died 1689). As John

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