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THOMAS, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1873 - 1951), politician and shipowner , a member of the Council of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and for 15 yrs was the honorary treasurer of the Anglesey Eisteddfod Association. He was knighted in 1918. Thomas married in 1905 Marie Rose, daughter of Arthur Burrows. She died in 1948. They had two sons and a daughter. His heir was Sir William Eustace Rhyddland Thomas (1909 - 1957). He died 27 September 1951 at his home
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman undistinguished degree in Classics at the then University College of North Wales, Bangor, a period that saw him produce some weak and 'sugary' sub-Georgian lyrics and skulk on the wing for the rugby team, he proceeded to St Michael's College, Llandaff, Cardiff, for training (never completed) prior to ordination in the newly disestablished Church in Wales. A loyal but turbulent priest, he uncompromisingly
THOMAS, STAFFORD HENRY MORGAN (1896 - 1968), minister (Presb.) and poet ministry at Melingryddan, Neath (1923-26); Nazareth, Aberdare (1926-27); Holywell and Bagillt (1927-32); Maenan, Penmaen-mawr (1932-65, with Gatws, Bangor, 1956-65). In 1926 he married Blodwen Griffith, Llanfair Talhaearn, and they had a daughter. He died 6 December 1968. He contributed much, in prose and in verse, to Y Goleuad and Y Drysorfa. He won prizes at the National Eisteddfod for elegies to T
THOMAS, THOMAS (1804 - 1877), cleric , Bangor). From Caernarvon he returned to Ruabon as vicar (1859) and after three years there was preferred to Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch. In 1864 he had been appointed to a canonry in Bangor cathedral. By his wife he had eight children, three daughters and five sons - one of their sons was the scholar, teacher and linguist Thomas Llewellyn Thomas (1840 - 1897). Thomas Thomas died at Llanrhaeadr-yng
THOMAS, THOMAS JACOB (Sarnicol; 1873 - 1945), schoolmaster, writer and poet neighbourhood. His wife survived him. He won the chair at the Abergavenny national eisteddfod in 1913 with his ode ' Aelwyd y Cymro ', and was in competition for the chair in London, 1909, Colwyn Bay, 1910, Wrexham, 1912, and Birkenhead, 1917. His pryddest at Bangor in 1931 was placed among the first three. He was one of the adjudicators of the awdl at Llanelli, 1930, and Bangor, 1943. He contributed much in
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist Born at Bangor 25 September 1856, elder son of Robert Hughes Thomas, chief smith at the Penrhyn quarry, and of Elinor his wife. He served as pupil-teacher under T. Marchant Williams, but became (c. 1872) an accountant in a Manchester office. He began to preach at Gartside Street chapel, Manchester, and then went to Bala Independent College, under M. D. Jones; there he added 'Ceinion' (later
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
TREVOR, JOHN (bu farw 1357), bishop of St Asaph Very little is known about him, and the principal object of this note is to warn the reader against a tendency to mix him up with John Trevor (II). It is quite obvious that he was a 'climber.' We first hear of him in 1343 in the papal court at Avignon where he was given permission to hold a canonry at S. Asaph simultaneously with one at Bangor - in addition to which he was, in 1344, made a
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist a key influence in his upbringing, and the congregation of that little chapel became the basis for his ideal of a spiritual community for the rest of his life. He was educated at Llanddulas elementary school and at Eirias secondary school in Colwyn Bay. He returned to his old primary school as a pupil-teacher for two years before going to the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1913 to
VAUGHAN, BENJAMIN NOEL YOUNG (1917 - 2003), Anglican priest , Peace and Godliness (1968) and The Expectations of the Poor (1972). He was theologically conservative. Vaughan returned to Wales in 1971; there he became Dean of Bangor cathedral and an assistant bishop in the diocese. In 1976 he was elected bishop of Swansea and Brecon. His new diocese covered the largest geographical area in England and Wales, extending from the Gower peninsula to the Black
VAUGHAN, RICHARD (1550? - 1607), bishop of S. Pauls (1583) and the archdeaconry of Middlesex (1588). Elected bishop of Bangor 22 November 1595, he was translated to Chester 23 April 1597, and thence to London, 1604. He is said to have assisted William Morgan in translating the Bible into Welsh, and to have been a benefactor of Bangor cathedral. As bishop of Chester, he took firm action against recusants, and as bishop of London, silenced
teulu VINCENT This notable clerical family, connected by birth and marriage with numerous landed and clerical families in Gwynedd, sprang from the Corbets of Ynys-y-maengwyn (says J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 237). VINCENT CORBET of Ynys-y-maengwyn (died 1723) had a son, THOMAS VINCENT, whom [it is said] he 'disinherited'; this Thomas (1677 - 1738) was successively vicar of Bangor and rector of Llanfachraeth

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