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THOMAS, IVOR OWEN (1898 - 1982), Labour politician seat to the Conservative candidate William Yates by just 478 votes. He then returned to the NUR head office staff. He was a member of staff of the Waterloo Department of British Railways, Southern Region, 1960-64, and of the Westminster City Council, Land Use Survey, 1965-66. He had married in 1929, Beatrice, the daughter of Councillor William Davis of Battersea. She died in 1978. They lived at
THOMAS, SIR JAMES WILLIAM TUDOR (1893 - 1976), ophthalmic surgeon
THOMAS, JENKIN (Siencyn Pen-hydd; 1746 - 1807), Methodist exhorter Born 16 September 1746, son of Thomas Rees of Pen-hydd Fawr, Margam, Glamorganshire. His spiritual conviction took place under the ministry of Evan Dafydd Evan of Tŷ'r-clai, and he came under the influence of William Davies (1729? - 1787), Methodist curate of Neath. He joined the congregation at Gyfylchi chapel and began to preach to the local societies. He married Catherine, daughter of John
THOMAS, JOHN (1886 - 1933), chemist research under Professor J. J. Sudborough gained for him the M.Sc. degree and an '1851 Exhibition' research scholarship which enabled him to proceed to Trinity College, Cambridge, and to further research under Professor Sir William Pope. In 1911 he was appointed to the National Physical Laboratory as research chemist in the aeronautical section. In 1912 he transferred to Nobel's Explosives Company at
THOMAS, JOHN (1838 - 1905), photographer (died 1895); they had four children: Jane Claudia, afterwards Mrs. Hugh Lloyd (1863 - 1934), William Thelwall, Robert Arthur (1866 - 1932), and Albert Ivor (1870 - 1911, a medical man). He died 14 October 1905, and was buried in Anfield cemetery, Liverpool.
THOMAS, JOHN (1760 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born in Berwig parish, Cardiganshire. He had very few advantages in his early days; he married young and had a large family. He joined the Baptists in 1775 but became a Methodist in 1779. He went to London where he followed his trade as a draper; whilst there he joined the church at Wilderness Row but regularly listened to the famous William Romaine. He returned to Cardigan town where he began to
THOMAS, JOHN (Eos Gwynedd; 1742 - 1818), poet Born at Bwlchmaenmelyn, a farmhouse in the parish of Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire. He married a daughter of Cernioge Mawr in 1765. He settled in Pentrefoelas where he kept a shop and farmed. In 1817 he published Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst. A selection of his works, edited by William Williams (Gwilym Caledfryn), was published in 1845 under
THOMAS, JOHN (1730 - 1804?), Congregational minister, and hymnist personality was highly complex - he was warm spirited and exceedingly aware of sin. He married Miss Elizabeth Jones of Dyffryn Cothi, parish of Llanfynydd. His Rhad Ras (published in 1810), which may be called the first Welsh autobiography, and the hymns of William Williams (Pantycelyn) are perhaps the most eloquent expressions of the spirit of the Welsh religious revival of the 18th century. He published
THOMAS, JOHN (1821 - 1892), Independent minister, politician, and historian school kept by the local minister for the training of preachers. The following year he went to Ffrwd-y-fâl school where, however, he only stayed a few months. He received a call to Bwlchnewydd church, Carmarthenshire, where he was ordained, 15 June 1842. In February 1850 he moved to Glyn Neath church, and in 1854 to Tabernacle, Great Crosshall Street, Liverpool, where he spent the rest of his life. He
THOMAS, JOHN (1736 - 1769), cleric and antiquary he was ordained at Oxford in 1760. He was 'under-keeper of the Museum' there, but could not live on his stipend - not (says William Morris of Anglesey) because it was inadequate but because he was a hard drinker; so he took a curacy at Holyhead at the end of 1760. At the end of 1761 he became usher at Friars school, a post to which the curacy of Llandygài was attached. In 1766, his former incumbent
THOMAS, JOHN EVAN (1810 - 1873), sculptor -Pentre, a little mansion at Llansbyddid; in 1868 he was sheriff of Brecknock. He died 9 October 1873, in London, and was buried there. For thirty years he was assisted in his work by his brother WILLIAM MEREDITH THOMAS who was born 13 July 1819 and died 7 September 1877. The latter, when he had completed his elder brother's unfinished works, continued to work on his own. He specialised in allegories
THOMAS, JOHN WILLIAM (Arfonwyson; 1805 - 1840), mathematician Born in 1805, the son of William Thomas, labourer, of Allt Isaf, Pentir. He attended school for three years, from the age of 7 to 10; after that he became a quarry boy, but attended night school where he showed a particular aptitude for arithmetic. At the age of 17, in order to get more facilities for study, he became a traveller for a Beaumaris bookseller; he gave this up after a year, and for

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