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THOMAS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1809), Independent minister, and publisher
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 Born 3 April 1832 at Tŷ'r Agent near Ynys-ddu, a village in the Sirhowy valley, Monmouthshire. His two brothers, David Thomas and John Thomas, were surveyors and engineers and Islwyn began to learn the rudiments of their profession, but his brother-in-law, the Rev. D. Jenkyns ('Jenkyns y Babell') saw that he had the making of a preacher and he was sent to schools at Tredegar, Newport, and
THOMAS, WILLIAM (fl. 1843), colliery owner - gweler LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS
THOMAS, WILLIAM DAVIES (1889 - 1954), Professor of English Born 5 August 1889, son of William and Hannah Thomas, Abermule, Montgomeryshire, where his father was a blacksmith and postmaster. He was educated at Newtown County School and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he obtained a first-class honours degree in English in 1910. He was a valuable player in the college and town football teams. After a year as student assistant at
THOMAS, Sir WILLIAM JAMES (1867 - 1945), BARONET, coalowner, philanthropist Born 10 March 1867 at Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, son of Thomas James and Jane Thomas. Orphaned at an early age he was cared for by his paternal grandmother during his schooldays at Mynyddislwyn and Pontypridd. He then entered the service of his grandfather, James Thomas (1817 - 1901), a pioneer of the coal industry in the Rhondda Fach valley, who at the age of 60 sank the Standard and Ynyshir
THOMAS, WILLIAM JENKYN (1870 - 1959), schoolmaster and author Born 5 July 1870, the son of John Thomas, Bryncocyn, Llangywer, Merionethshire, and his wife Catherine who died when William was a child, and the family moved to Plas Madog, Llanuwchllyn. He went to Friars School, Bangor, before matriculating as a sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1888; he had a scholarship in 1890 and graduated B.A. (class I part I in the classical tripos), and M.A. in
THOMAS, WILLIAM MEREDITH (1819 - 1877), sculptor - gweler THOMAS, JOHN EVAN
THOMAS, WILLIAM PHILLIP (Gwilym Rhondda; 1861 - 1954), colliery official Born 27 October 1861, son of Mary Thomas (née Phillips) and her husband of Treorchy, Glamorganshire. In 1874 he left the local school at the age of 12 to commence work as an office-boy with the Ocean Coal Co.; he rose to become general manager in 1926, retiring in 1933. He was director of the company 1927-37, and of many other coal companies besides. He was well known as an organiser of social
THOMAS, WILLIAM THELWALL (1865 - 1927), surgeon Born at Liverpool in February 1865, the second child of John and Elizabeth Thomas. The parents at that time were members of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Rose Place, but fourteen days after his birth the family transferred their membership to the newly opened chapel in Fitzclarence Street. Thelwall Thomas was closely associated with that chapel as member and Sunday school teacher for
THOMAS, WILLIAM THEOPHILUS (Gwilym Gwenffrwd; 1824 - 1899), Congregational minister and poet
THOMAS, ZACHARIAS (1727 - 1816), Baptist minister Born at Esgair-ithri, Caeo, 13 (or 24?) August 1727, the youngest of five children born to Thomas Morgan Thomas and Jane, his wife, previously of Ty-Hen in the same parish, and brother of Joshua Thomas, Leominster and Timothy Thomas ' I,' Aberduar. He was baptized at Maes-y-berllan in 1748, during an apprenticeship at Hay, but returned and became a member at Pant Teg on the occasion of his

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