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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 . He returned to his native heath and lived thereafter at ' Y Bwthyn ', Llannarth, continuing to preach occasionally, lecture and expand his catholic ideas, as in his Dr. Williams Lecture at Carmarthen Presbyterian College (1941) on Toleration and church-unity. As a public figure, at this time, he served on Cardiganshire county council and as chairman of its highways committee; he promoted the
THOMAS, LAWRENCE (1889 - 1960), archdeacon Aberavon in 1946 and when the archdeaconry of Margam was formed in 1948 he was selected to be the first archdeacon. An able administrator, he fulfilled his duties effectively. He resigned the vicarage in 1958. He married in 1923, Beatrice Lilian Williams of Crickhowel and they had one daughter. He died 19 October 1960 and was buried at Gelli-gaer. He was an authority on the impact of the industrial
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, LEWIS JOHN (1883 - 1970), missionary in India with the London Missionary Society Born 2 February 1883 at Llangefni, Anglesey, son of Cefni and Mary (née Williams) Thomas. The family moved to Rhiwbryfdir, Blaenau Ffestiniog, when he was five. After a period as a pupil-teacher and working on the railway, he moved to Corwen and then Birkenhead. There he came under the influence of the 1904-05 religious revival and began preaching; he had wished to become a missionary since he
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist . Davies, Director of Education, and his successor Edward Rees. At this time she lived at Arwynfa, Borthyn, Ruthin, and by 1935 she is registered as living at Llwyni, Llanfair Road, Ruthin. The occupants are noted as Emily, Louie Myfanwy, Mary and William Henry Davies. W.H. Davies, a Meth. lay-preacher, was her father's brother, his wife was Mary and their daughter Emily. Myfanwy lived there for some
THOMAS, MANSEL TREHARNE (1909 - 1986), composer, conductor, BBC Wales Head of Music /late 1920s specially for the newly-formed Pendyrus Male Choir which rehearsed next to his home in Tylorstown. The partsong became so well known that W. S. Gwynn Williams (Gwynn Publishers) requested a mixed choir version of it for publication in 1939, and that soon surpassed in popularity its TTBB original. Songs and choral music are significant in all the periods and are perhaps the elements by
THOMAS, MARGARET (1779 - ?), hymnwriter daughter of William Llwyd of Vaenol, near Bangor, Caernarfonshire. As a young woman she married one Edmund Williams; her second marriage (c. 1817) was with Edward Thomas of Tal-y-bont Uchaf, Llanllechid, an elder at Gatws church (Calvinistic Methodist), near Bangor. Her hymns are found written on the blank pages of an old edition of the Bible, T. Charles's Geiriadur, and an old copy of the Book
THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian Born 8 July 1874, in Talysarn, Dyffryn Nantlle, Caernarfonshire, the son of Robert Thomas, quarryman, and his wife. The father died when the Nantlle lake burst its banks, and 8 workmen were killed. Morris Thomas was only 12 years old, but at that age the boy had to go to work in the quarry. His minister, William Williams, saw that he was exceptionally able and gave him encouragement and
THOMAS, NICHOLAS (bu farw 1741), printer and publisher him his patronage in 1718 and for a time afterwards - that is, at the start of the venture. He set up his own press at Carmarthen in 1721 - the first in that town; for the titles of some of the productions of his press see Ifano Jones, A history of printing and printers in Wales. One John Williams was in partnership with him for a time; e.g. when they jointly printed (at the end of 1733) John
THOMAS, OLIVER (1598 - 1653?), Puritan cleric, and author reprinted in 1930, may also be confidently ascribed to him; it is so ascribed by Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, 1691 edn., i, 860) on the authority of Thomas's contemporary, Michael Roberts (died 1679), by Stephen Hughes in Tryssor (1677), and by Moses Williams in his list of Welsh printed books (1717). Oliver Thomas's Welsh prose is excellent.
THOMAS, OWEN (1812 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born at Holyhead, 16 December 1812, son of Owen and Mary Thomas and brother of John Thomas (1821 - 1892) and Josiah Thomas. The father was a stone-mason and when, in 1827, the family went to live at Bangor he, too, followed the same trade. He began to preach in 1834 and immediately came into prominence as a preacher. He went to Bala College in 1838 and thence to Edinburgh University. In 1844 he

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