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MORRIS, THOMAS (1786 - 1846), Baptist minister written by Ll. Jenkins and T. Thomas in 1847.
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party enrolled at Gwynfryn School, Amanford, under Watkin Hezekiah Williams, 'Watcyn Wyn' (1844-1905) and John Gwili Jenkins (1872-1936), an advocate of the broad and liberal theological views associated with the New Theology of R.J. Campbell. T.E. Nicholas acknowledged his immense debt to Gwili Jenkins for opening for him the world of Christian Socialism, though he had read for himself accounts of the work of
NOWELL, THOMAS (1730? - 1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history John Thomas of Llanfihangel-Aber-bythych in 1769 under the title Duwioldeb Rhydychain - see the account of the matter in D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, i, 64-6.
OWEN, WILLIAM (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren;; 1788 - 1838), schoolmaster and musician exposition of the art of congregational singing and a collection of hymn-tunes; this book was dedicated to John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), incumbent of Kerry, Montgomeryshire. He died 8 October 1838, and was buried at Newtown.
PAGE, LESLIE ALUN (1920 - 1990), Minister (Cong.) Presbyterian Church at Banc-y-felin. Alun Page read widely and meditated in both English and Welsh literature. He was impressed by T. S. Eliot, Waldo and Gwenallt and often quoted from them. He spoke of the greatness of R. T. Jenkins as a writer, and praised D. J. Williams and his 'square mile.' Karl Barth was another influence and he was not unfamiliar with the thoughts of Freud and Marx. He was indebted to
PERROTT, THOMAS (bu farw 1733), Presbyterian minister, and academy tutor Richard Price and Jenkin Jenkins. It seems far more probable that it was Perrot's weakness as a disciplinarian that brought the academy into contemporary disrepute - it is clear that the number of the students had swollen beyond his capacity to control them, even if we doubt Wilson's statement (NLW MS 373C) that more than 150 Nonconformist students 'and as many, if not more, Anglicans' had passed
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister a Carmarthenshire man, associated by tradition with the Philipps family of Picton. His sister Dorothy married Timothy Quarrell of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, of a family prominent in the history of Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire Independency (see Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, i, 260, and Jenkins, Hanes … Hen Gapel Llanuwchllyn, 70-2); her daughter married John Kenrick of Wynne Hall
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal , Seth Joshua, R. B. Jones and Joseph Jenkins. At the Davies Colliery School he gained a prize from the hands of the schoolmaster R. J. Jones for an essay on South Africa. The prize was a biography of the missionary David Livingstone, and the story of his African endeavours made a huge impact on him. When he was ten years of age he succeeded in an examination for admission to the Higher National School
POWELL, JOHN Charles (D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, I, 71; see also a note by him in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, Trevecka Supplement 8, 273). (2) JOHN POWELL (1720 - 1766), Independent minister Religion; Born at Lanelli (Brecknock). A shoemaker in Glyn Ebwy Fawr, he was converted by Edmund Jones (Hist. of Aberystruth, 106), and began to preach. After a while (1748) he went to Carmarthen
POWELL, LEWIS (1788 - 1869), Independent minister membership of the church by Peter Jenkins, a personal friend of Williams of Pantycelyn, who was also responsible for inducing him to begin preaching in 1808. In 1812 he obtained a post as tutor to the children of Evan Price of Cerrigbwbach, near Pentre-tŷ-gwyn, and other local children, the conditions of his employment being that this gentleman should give him board and lodging and teach him Latin and
PRICE, THOMAS (Carnhuanawc; 1787 - 1848), historian and antiquary of the gentry who supported the Welsh societies and eisteddfodau of the period he publicly expressed his admiration for the way in which the common people cherished the national heritage. He was recognized as one of the foremost Celtic scholars of his day and among the numerous people with whom he corresponded were men like John Jenkins of Kerry, Le Gonidec, and Hersart de la Villemarqué
PRICE, WATKIN WILLIAM (1873 - 1967), schoolmaster, researcher depicted the rural nature of east Glamorgan before it was despoiled by industry. His index of some 40,000 cards on persons, past and present, in Wales continues to be of use to researchers (copies are in the National Library of Wales and Cynon Valley Library). R.T. Jenkins invited him to contribute 30 articles to The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, several of them on some of the most important persons of

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