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THOMAS, BENJAMIN (Myfyr Emlyn; 1836 - 1893), Baptist minister, poet, lecturer, and author afterwards, he was induced to preach, and after nine months' training at a school kept by Dr. George Rees at Fishguard, he was admitted, in 1855, to Haverfordwest College, and in 1858 to Bristol College. He was ordained at Dre-fach and Graig, Newcastle Emlyn, in 1860, as co-pastor with Timothy Thomas, accepted the pastorate of the English church at Penarth in 1873, and finally, in 1875, moved to Narberth
THOMAS, BENJAMIN BOWEN (1899 - 1977), adult educator and civil servant spheres, he drew on Welsh traditions of Christian social commitment and idealist internationalism by which he had been shaped, and to which he added a characteristic pragmatism. He was influenced by the example of David Davies, Lord Davies of Llandinam, the most cogent Welsh supporter of the League of Nations, and through a close co-operation with Dr Thomas Jones, the prominent Welsh civil servant and
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate facilities throughout Wales by means of the Regional Libraries Scheme for Wales and Monmouthshire and the University of Wales extra-mural classes scheme, etc. But his chief preoccupation in these years was with the co-operative movement and with co-partnership schemes in industry. From 1906 onwards he was vice-president of the Labour Co-partnership Association. In the autumn of 1902 he travelled to Canada
THOMAS, DAVID (bu farw 1780?), minister (Congl.) 362A), a few crumbs of information about him can be gathered from other manuscripts. It is evident from the scornful references made by Edmund Jones diary 1773 that he associated with Arians; it is also suggested that he was not a teetotaller. Edmund Jones's words, 'old David Thomas ', support the fact that Evan Davies was ordained there (3 August 1775) - as co-pastor, according to Hanes Eglwysi
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer . From 1929 Thomas was a precocious co-editor (then editor) of the Swansea Grammar School Magazine, having been a contributing mainstay from his first year. His immediate post-school prominence in Swansea's Little Theatre (1931-1934) also began at school - in its Reading Circle and Dramatic and Debating societies. It was Thomas's only period of formal education, followed by fifteen months as a junior
THOMAS, JOHN (fl. 1689-1712), minister of the Tivy-side Independents Thomas's signature is the first of those attesting Jenkin Jones's will, it is possible that he was already co-pastor with him. But by that time, the question of infant Baptism was disquieting local Dissenters, and a public debate on that subject was arranged (1691 or 1692) between John Thomas and John Jenkins (1656? - 1733) of Rhydwilym. The upshot was that the Baptist members of the mixed congregation
THOMAS, LEWIS (fl. first half of the 20th century) south Wales, pioneer of the art of Cerdd Dant (1950), Aberystwyth (1952), and Ystradgynlais (1954). The last, Hwiangerddi gyda'r tannau, was published by Snell & Co. in 1956. He contributed articles and settings to Allwedd y tannau and Yr Athro. For many years he regularly adjudicated Cerdd Dant at the national eisteddfod, the Cerdd Dant Festival and the Urdd National Eisteddfod. For his services he was made a member of the Gorsedd of Bards at
THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN (1883 - 1970), missionary in India with the London Missionary Society . From 1927 to 1938 he was responsible for a seminary to instruct native evangelists, and from 1939 to 1949 he was secretary/treasurer of the Missionary Society. As an uncompromising Independent, he opposed the United Church, although he gave of his best in all co-operative activities. He retired from missionary work in 1949, but accepted the care of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Bangalore, where
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant him the opportunity to return to Cardiff in 1913 in partnership with Ivor Jones. His career was interrupted by World War I, when he joined the Artists' Rifles at the end of 1915. He was commissioned in the 210 Field Co., R.E. and found himself at the Somme, not in Egypt as he had hoped. He was promoted Staff Officer R.E. XIII Army Corps, was twice mentioned in despatches and won the military O.B.E
THOMAS, ROBERT (1782 - 1860), printer and publisher Glenelg on 28 December 1836. He printed and published the next issue of The Register in Adelaide on 3 June 1837, i.e. less than a year after leaving Britain. Robert Thomas & Co. became a very successful family-owned printing and publishing house in Adelaide, and The Register became a daily paper owned by members of the Thomas family. Robert Thomas died on 1 July 1860 in Adelaide. His wife Mary died on
THOMAS, ROWLAND (c. 1887 - 1959), newspaper proprietor Born c. 1887 at Oswestry, Salop, son of William Thomas and his wife. He was educated locally before entering the newspaper business, returning from World War I to succeed his father as director of the Caxton Press and chairman of Woodall, Minshall, Thomas and Co. Ltd., Oswestry, who originally produced only The Border Counties Advertizer. He founded the Wrexham Leader in 1920, later took over the
THOMAS, SIMON (bu farw 1743?), Presbyterian minister and author ministers) of the local congregation, for in that month he was one of the witnesses to the will of his senior co-minister, John Weaver (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1943, 105). His first and best-known book was Hanes y Byd a'r Amseroedd, 1718, a kind of encyclopaedia with a distinct anti-Papal bias, which was very popular, being reprinted three times (1721, 1724, 1728) in his

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