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THOMAS, IFOR OWEN (1892 - 1956), operatic tenor, photographer and artist honorary bard to the Gorsedd of Bards as ' Ifor o Fôn ', before sailing to the United States. Although he appeared with the Philadelphia Opera Company in 1928 he left the world of opera for the concert platform, broadcasting and recording for H.M.V. and Sanders. He became a great favourite with the American Welsh who dubbed him 'the second Evan Williams with a hint of Caruso '. He also sang with leading
THOMAS, ISAAC (1911 - 2004), minister (Independents) and college lecturer 1551-1620. He was awarded the Vernon Hull Memorial Prize by the Board of Celtic Studies twice for these masterpieces of research. Professor J. E. Caerwyn Williams wrote of him: 'He completed a task which sorely needed to be done, and he effected it in such a way that it will never again be needed to be done, so that all interested in Welsh and the Welsh Bible will be indebted to him.' He also
THOMAS, JOHN (1691 - 1766), bishop of Salisbury There is a short but interesting account of his career in the D.N.B.; he was born 23 June 1691, and died 19 July 1766. His father was a brewer's drayman, but Robert Williams (Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen) states - without giving the source of his information - that the bishop was born at Dolgelley.
THOMAS, JOHN (1838 - 1905), photographer Born at Glan-rhyd, Cellan, Cardiganshire, 14 April 1838, son of David and Jane Thomas, went to Cellan school (where he became a pupil-teacher), and was apprenticed to a draper at Lampeter. From 1853 till 1863 he worked in a drapery shop at Liverpool; then illhealth drove him to seek outdoor work as commission-salesman for a stationery and photograph firm. Noting the scanty representation of Wales
THOMAS, JOHN (Eos Gwynedd; 1742 - 1818), poet Born at Bwlchmaenmelyn, a farmhouse in the parish of Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire. He married a daughter of Cernioge Mawr in 1765. He settled in Pentrefoelas where he kept a shop and farmed. In 1817 he published Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst. A selection of his works, edited by William Williams (Gwilym Caledfryn), was published in 1845 under
THOMAS, JOHN (1730 - 1804?), Congregational minister, and hymnist personality was highly complex - he was warm spirited and exceedingly aware of sin. He married Miss Elizabeth Jones of Dyffryn Cothi, parish of Llanfynydd. His Rhad Ras (published in 1810), which may be called the first Welsh autobiography, and the hymns of William Williams (Pantycelyn) are perhaps the most eloquent expressions of the spirit of the Welsh religious revival of the 18th century. He published
THOMAS, JOHN (1821 - 1892), Independent minister, politician, and historian Williams. In 1831 he lost his father and, as he had to earn a living, became an assistant in a grocer's shop. This attempt lasted nine months and he was then apprenticed to a cobbler, one Dafydd Llwyd. He then left home and tramped over parts of Merionethshire looking unsuccessfully for work. Later, he went to Liverpool where he was employed for a few months and where he was admitted to full membership
THOMAS, JOHN (1736 - 1769), cleric and antiquary says that Hugh Maurice used many of them in preparing The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales. None of John Thomas's work was published during his life, but Sir J. E. Lloyd has shown (on the testimony of John Lloyd of Caerwys and of Gwallter Mechain) that he was the author of the anonymous History of the Island of Anglesey of 1775, and William Williams of Llandygài, included in his own Observations on the
THOMAS, JOHN EVAN (1810 - 1873), sculptor Born at Brecon 15 January 1810, the eldest son of John Thomas, Castle Street, and Jane (Evans) his wife. He studied in London under Chantrey and afterwards on the Continent, began to work independently in 1834, and was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy between 1835 and 1857. He had a very successful career, and many of his works are to be seen in Wales and elsewhere - in his home town
THOMAS, JOHN LUTHER (1881 - 1970), minister (Congl.) Born 23 April 1881 in Bigyn Road, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, son of Thomas and Ann Thomas. The family moved to Pontarddulais where he attended the local school before beginning to work in the tin industry. In 1894 he was received as a member of Hope church, where he was encouraged to enter the ministry. He attended the school of Watcyn Wyn (Williams, Watkin Hezekiah) at Ammanford and Bala-Bangor
THOMAS, JOSEPH MORGAN (1868 - 1955), minister (U) and Free Catholic, councillor and public figure . He returned to his native heath and lived thereafter at ' Y Bwthyn ', Llannarth, continuing to preach occasionally, lecture and expand his catholic ideas, as in his Dr. Williams Lecture at Carmarthen Presbyterian College (1941) on Toleration and church-unity. As a public figure, at this time, he served on Cardiganshire county council and as chairman of its highways committee; he promoted the
THOMAS, LAWRENCE (1889 - 1960), archdeacon Aberavon in 1946 and when the archdeaconry of Margam was formed in 1948 he was selected to be the first archdeacon. An able administrator, he fulfilled his duties effectively. He resigned the vicarage in 1958. He married in 1923, Beatrice Lilian Williams of Crickhowel and they had one daughter. He died 19 October 1960 and was buried at Gelli-gaer. He was an authority on the impact of the industrial

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