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THOMAS, JOSHUA (1719 - 1797), Baptist minister and historian early days of the Olchon Baptists, not to mention other important manuscripts, that eventually found a home at the Bristol Baptist College. But his outstanding contribution as a historian was the Hanes of 1778 [today usually cited in the Welsh version (1885) by Benjamin Davies (1826 - 1905) of a manuscript enlargement in English, now preserved at Bristol Baptist College ]. Thomas died 25 August 1797
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 wrote little else of significance thereafter. He married Megan Lloyd, the Welsh cellist, in 1939 and they had two daughters, Grace and Siân. He died at Glaslyn Court Nursing Home, Gilwern, near Abergavenny on 8 January 1986 aged 76, and was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Magor, Monmouthshire on 11 January. Mansel Thomas left an enormous and invaluable legacy of compositions and almost all of
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, 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
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant of Leigh. In addition to these successes he had important commissions which included county offices for Glamorgan, the Temple of Peace - directly commissioned by Lord Davies - both in Cathays Park, Cardiff; county offices for Carmarthenshire and police headquarters and fire station for Worcester. He was now a recognised authority on planning and designing public buildings, and he was appointed
THOMAS, PERCY GORONWY (1875 - 1954), professor of English reign (1907); Greene's Pandosto (1907); Introduction to the history of the English language (1920); Middle English section in the Year's Work in English studies (1923 and 1924); English literature before Chaucer (1924); Aspects of literary theory and practice, 1550-1870 (1931); and articles in Modern Language Review, and other learned periodicals. He married, 22 August 1918, Mary Pugh Jones, daughter
THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD (1878 - 1917), poet Born 3 March 1878, at Lambeth, son of Philip Henry Thomas, Tredegar, clerk in the civil service, and Mary Elizabeth (née Townsend). He was educated at S. Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford, 1898-1900, and early showed his love of the countryside, unspoiled people, and literature. He married Helen Berenice Noble, 20 June 1899; there were three children: Mervyn, born 1900, Bronwen 1904, and
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress Rachel Thomas was born in Gwyn Street, Alltwen, in the parish of Cilybebyll, Glamorganshire, on 10 February 1905, the only daughter of Emily Thomas (1884-1955), a maid. She was brought up by her aunt, Mary Roberts (née Thomas, 1875-1928) and her husband, David Roberts (1866-1928), tinworker and coalminer, together with their own children, Llewelyn (1897-1977?) a merchant, Richard (1899-1970) an
THOMAS, ROBERT (bu farw 2 April 1692), Puritan preacher meeting for religious worship at his own house (Pen y Gisla was the name given) and at the house of Mary Thomas in Cilfwnwr. He saw the Toleration Act coming into operation, and towards the end of his life he is described as a man moderately well off, of undoubted piety, who had served his Lord for over forty years. By 1692 his congregation was definitely Independent, though he himself was son to one of

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