Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig

THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, and for a critical Essay on the ' Works and art of Islwyn '. In the national eisteddfod in Pwllheli, 1925, he shared a prize for his novel Toriad y Wawr, published in 1928 by Hugh Evans and Sons, Liverpool. The other winner was Lewis Davies, Cymer, for his novel, Wat Emwnt, published by the same company in the same year. In the Bangor national
THOMAS, NICHOLAS (bu farw 1741), printer and publisher In 1714 John Rogers printed at Shrewsbury, Dirgelwch …, sef Llyfr y Tri Aderyn, by Morgan Lloyd (Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd) for Nicholas Thomas and Lewis Thomas, the latter a travelling bookseller, of Llangrannog, Cardiganshire A little later, viz. in 1718, Nicholas Thomas was himself at Shrewsbury learning the craft of printing either at the office of John Rogers or that of John Rhydderch; a year
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress Howell 'Hywel' John Thomas (1901-1964), a farmer's son from Crai in Breconshire, who trained as a teacher and was the first headmaster of Whitchurch School, Cardiff. They settled in Tyle Coch, Y Goedwig, Rhiwbina, in 1933 and had one daughter, Delyth Mariel (1937-2006). Rachel Thomas was a faithful member, and deacon for a time, of Minny Street Independent Chapel in Cardiff, and it was there that she
THOMAS, RHYS (1720? - 1790), printer ), Cardiff. Other members of the Bird family were concerned in the Cardiff printing business begun by John Bird; it was Hugh Bird who disposed of it, in 1866, to William Lewis (died 1918), the founder of the firm which prints this biographical dictionary.
THOMAS, Sir ROGER (1886 - 1960), pioneer of modern agriculture Born 4 May 1886 at Pen-yr-ardd, Clunderwen, Pembrokeshire, the seventh of the eleven children of Lewis Thomas and Sophia (née James) his wife. He was educated at Narberth County School, and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he gained 1st-class Honours in botany, with geology as a subsidiary subject. He was Victor Ludorum in sports, and ran for the college. Between leaving school at
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman ', or by 'incomers' as cheap 'second homes'; these and other practices he regarded as continuing evidence of the culturally malign process of colonial subjection and cumulative annexation that had been set in train by the Tudors (a reading of Welsh history he inherited from his great cultural hero, Saunders Lewis). But he reserved his darkest censure for his compatriots, the anglophone Welsh
THOMAS, THOMAS (1776 - 1847), cleric and historian death, 28 February 1847 (buried at Blaenporth 4 March). He was awarded the S. Davids prize for an essay on the study of the Hebrew language in 1810, and in 1822 he published Memoirs of Owen Glendower … with a sketch of the History of the Ancient Britons from the Conquest of Wales by Edward the First, to the present time. He helped Nicholas Carlisle and Samuel Lewis with their topographical
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1727 - 1795), schoolmaster and diarist very many years Thomas kept a diary, which was seen by John Rowland (Giraldus, 1833 - 1891), and quoted by him in his Caer-marthenshire Monumental Inscriptions - p. xxiii of that work shows that the diary was begun in 1750. The diary, or part of it was, in 1888, in the possession of a Dr. Lewis of the vale of Glamorgan, and in that year considerable excerpts of it, covering the years 1762-94, were
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1799), cleric and antiquary Son of Lewis and Eleanor Thomas, Eglwys Nynnid, near Margam, Glamorganshire (he was christened 26 August 1734). He received his early education at Cowbridge under Dr. Durell, and then proceeded to Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated, 24 October 1751. He graduated B.A. from Oriel College in 1755 and M.A. in 1758. He was ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids on 13 August 1758, and
THOMAS, WILLIAM (bu farw 1813), Unitarian Baptist minister 1796, he and Griffith Jones were ordained co-pastors of Pant Teg - ironically enough, Thomas took part in the ordination service of Titus Lewis at Blaen-y-waun, Pembrokeshire, in 1797. In the schism of 1799, Thomas and the Arminian party retained possession of Pant Teg chapel, which is today one of the three chapels which alone in Wales bear the designation ' General Baptist ' - see under Evan Lloyd
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Glanffrwd; 1843 - 1890), cleric and author Born at Ynys-y-bŵl, 17 March 1843, son of John Howell Thomas (who was the son of William Thomas Howell of Blaennantyfedw) and Jane, daughter of Morgan Jones of Cwmclydach. He attended a school kept by one Tommy Morgan. He worked as a sawyer, like his father's but after studying hard became a schoolmaster for four or five years, first at his own home and then at Llwynypia. He then became a
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet Llew Llwyfo (Lewis William Lewis who was appointed its editor. Islwyn died 20 November 1878, and was buried in Babell chapel burial-ground. Islwyn was taught poetry by Gwilym Ilid and Aneurin Fardd, and there were at that time several literary circles in Monmouthshire, particularly at Abergavenny. He constantly competed in the eisteddfodau - for the most part unsuccessfully. In 1853 he won the prize

Canlyniadau chwilio

769 - 780 of 869 for "howell elvet lewis"