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THOMAS, EVAN (c. 1710 - c. 1770), poet and boot-maker Awen, was published in 1842 under the editorship of William Hughes Griffiths of Llandysiliogogo with an introduction by Brutus. For the most part he writes in the 'free' metres and the form of his poetry is clearly influenced by the ballad; the topics of the day provide him with his subjects. Only five of his englynion have survived and these show that he had not mastered the art of writing in the
THOMAS, IORWERTH RHYS (1895 - 1966), politician of the Hughes-Parry Report on the Legal Status of the Welsh Language. In 1960 he supported the Conservative government's measure to open public houses on Sundays. He married in October 1920 Annie Mary, daughter of D.J. Davies. She, too, was active in the Labour politics of the area. She died in July 1956. They had one son and one daughter. He died 3 December 1966 at his home 94 Park Road, Cwm-parc.
THOMAS, JOHN (1838 - 1905), photographer illustrating Cymru and ' Cyfres y Fil '; they are today in the National Library of Wales. Thomas had other interests. He wrote extensively in Cymru (O.M.E.) and other Welsh periodicals. He was a deeply religious man, a member of Rose Place C.M. church until its dissolution in 1865, and afterwards of Fitzclarence Street C.M. church. He married (1861) Elizabeth Hughes, of Glandwr, Bryneglwys, Denbighshire
THOMAS, JOHN (1730 - 1804?), Congregational minister, and hymnist , Llanddeusant (1745), an experience which shook him to the core. He went to Llanddowror as man-servant to the Rev. Griffith Jones and stayed there two years. At the invitation of Howel Harris he went to Trevecka; by this time his greatest delight was in attending religious meetings and societies, in preaching, and exhorting. For some years he taught in some of Griffith Jones's circulating schools in South
THOMAS, JOHN (1736 - 1769), cleric and antiquary 33,' says his memorial there, but more strictly, in his thirty-third year. By the unanimous testimony of all three Morrises, of Hugh Hughes (Bardd Coch, who wrote an elegy upon him), and of Ieuan Fardd, he was a remarkably good Welsh scholar, and a masterly genealogist. He was a copyist of old Welsh manuscripts; these passed to his brother Richard, after whose death they were dispersed; Ellis Owen
THOMAS, JOHN ROWLAND (1881 - 1965), religious leader and prominent merchant Born 2 March 1881 at Penrhyndeudraeth, Caernarfonshire, son of Griffith and Ann Thomas. In 1883 Griffith Thomas and the family returned to Dwygyfylchi, Penmaenmawr - his old area. John Rowland attended Pencae school, Penmaenmawr, and won a scholarship to Friars School, Bangor, but after two years transferred to the new John Bright School at Llandudno. He went to work for a short period for the
THOMAS, LAWRENCE (1889 - 1960), archdeacon his standard work, The Reformation in the old diocese of Llandaff. In the same year he published The life of Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, a pamphlet prepared by the Llandaff Diocesan Sunday School Council to commemorate the bicentenary of the starting of the circulating schools in 1731. He obtained the living of Bargoed in 1942 and was appointed canon of Llandaff cathedral in 1944. He moved to
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist asked to change her style. She published (under the name Jane Ann Jones) Storïau hen ferch (Gwasg Aberystwyth, 1937); Y bryniau pell (Gwasg Gee, 1949); Diwrnod yw ein bywyd (Hughes a'i Fab, 1954); Plant y Foty (George Ronald, Cardiff, 1955); Ann a Defi John (Gwasg y Brython, 1958). George Ronald, Cardiff, had intended publishing a children's series, ' Storïau Ann a Defi John ' and it is interesting
THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian eisteddfod of 1931, Morris Thomas won first prize with his novel Pen yr Yrfa, published in the office of the Goleuad in Caernarfon in 1932. He was considered to be a good historian, and he was appointed to write the history of the Llŷn and Eifionydd Presbytery, left unfinished by Henry Hughes, Bryncir. According to his own account, he tired of the work and the task of trying to make sense of Henry Hughes
THOMAS, OLIVER (1598 - 1653?), Puritan cleric, and author (with Evan Roberts, 1640, and of Drych i dri math o bobl, c. 1647 (reprinted by Stephen Hughes, in the composite volume, Tryssor i'r Cymru, 1677). The anonymous Car–wr y Cymru, 1630 (several reprints down to 1766), a 12-page catechism for children, and the much larger Car–wr y Cymru of 1631 (reprinted by Stephen Hughes in his Cyfarwydd-deb i'r Anghyfarwydd, 1677), which the University of Wales
THOMAS, Sir (1858 - 1923), agriculturist, soldier, and Member of Parliament some refractory cases of discipline which found their way into the newspapers of the time; he was knighted in 1917. He had always been a keen politician - as far back as 1894 his name had been mentioned as a likely Liberal candidate for Anglesey, and in December 1918, he came forward as Labour candidate, and won the seat from E. J. Ellis-Griffith, who had represented the county since 1895. In 1919-20
THOMAS, OWEN (1812 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author third brother, JOSIAH THOMAS (1830 - 1905), secretary of the Calvinistic Methodist Missionary Society Religion Born at Bangor 7 August 1830. He went to Bala College and Edinburgh University where he graduated in 1857. His wife was the daughter of John Hughes (1796 - 1860). After being pastor of Jerusalem chapel (Bethesda, Caernarfonshire) he kept a school at Bangor (1862-6) but in 1866 was appointed

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