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THOMAS, JOSHUA (1719 - 1797), Baptist minister and historian he published a new translation of the Confession of Faith, issued by the London Assembly of 1689; in 1794 he translated a book by Robert Hall on the doctrine of the Trinity; before 1795 he published sharply-worded Remarks on the work of an author who had belittled the cause and mission of the Baptists. And he left behind at Leominster, in manuscript, two volumes on the story of that church and the
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist refused surgery for the cancer which she suffered. She was forced to resign because of her health in 1959. She and her husband moved to Carmel, Holywell in 1962 but she returned to Ruthin 2 years later, 2 months after her husband's death from lung cancer in September 1964, to 115 Parcydre. In her obituary in Y Faner, 1 February 1968, Kate Roberts says that Louie Myfanwy was unable to visit her husband
THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian Born 8 July 1874, in Talysarn, Dyffryn Nantlle, Caernarfonshire, the son of Robert Thomas, quarryman, and his wife. The father died when the Nantlle lake burst its banks, and 8 workmen were killed. Morris Thomas was only 12 years old, but at that age the boy had to go to work in the quarry. His minister, William Williams, saw that he was exceptionally able and gave him encouragement and
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, OWEN (1812 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author received a call to Pen-mount church, Pwllheli, where he was ordained in September of the same year. In 1846 he moved to Newtown to take charge of an English church, and at the end of 1851 received a call to be minister of Jewin Crescent, London. On 24 January 1860 he married Ellen (died 1867), youngest daughter of the Rev. William Roberts of Amlwch (1784 - 1864). In 1865 he moved to Liverpool, first to
THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD (1878 - 1917), poet , went to France in February 1917, and was killed at Arras 9 April of that year. Some six months before enlisting he had begun, under the influence of Robert Frost and with the pen name 'Edward Eastaway,' to write the poems on which his fame now rests secure. His Collected Poems appeared in 1920 with a preface by Walter de la Mare. His poems and Helen Thomas's As It Was and World Without End are his
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress Rachel Thomas was born in Gwyn Street, Alltwen, in the parish of Cilybebyll, Glamorganshire, on 10 February 1905, the only daughter of Emily Thomas (1884-1955), a maid. She was brought up by her aunt, Mary Roberts (née Thomas, 1875-1928) and her husband, David Roberts (1866-1928), tinworker and coalminer, together with their own children, Llewelyn (1897-1977?) a merchant, Richard (1899-1970) an
THOMAS, RICHARD (1753 - 1780), cleric, transcriber and collector of manuscripts, and genealogist therefore within easy reach of the library at Peniarth. By May 1779, if not earlier, he had become curate at Ruthin, where he died in 1780. As J. E. Griffith (op. cit.) shows there was a family connection between Richard Thomas and Dr. Griffith Roberts, Dolgelley, a collector of manuscripts who came to own some of Richard Thomas's manuscripts, e.g. Peniarth MS 201. What is more, Richard Thomas was a
THOMAS, ROBERT (bu farw 2 April 1692), Puritan preacher His name is associated with Neuadd Baglan in Glamorgan, and he is probably the Robert Thomas who matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, August 1658. When the Restoration came and the Act of Uniformity, he was not named among the ministers that were ejected; he was a preacher merely, unordained. In 1669 he was reported as preaching secretly to about twenty followers, those being made up of
THOMAS, ROBERT (1782 - 1860), printer and publisher Robert Thomas, the son of John and Mary Thomas, was born at Rhandregynwen, on 16 November 1782 (Rhandregynwen, Llanymynech, Montgomeryshire, OS Map 118, SJ 2819; various spellings, was and still is a substantial farm on the banks of the river Vyrnwy). He married Mary Harris of Southampton at the Church of the Holy Rood, 8 January 1818 and they had two sons (William Kyffin and Robert George) and
THOMAS, ROBERT (Ap Vychan; 1809 - 1880), Independent minister and tutor, poet and man of letters
THOMAS, ROBERT (bu farw 1774), poet, and sexton of Llanfair Talhaearn Denbighshire

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