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See also:CHARLES, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1755-1814) , Welsh See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born of humble parentage at Longmoor, in the See also:parish of Llanfihangel Abercywyn, near St Clears, See also:Carmarthenshire, on the 14th of See also:October 1755. He was educated for the See also:Anglican See also:ministry at Llanddowror and See also:Carmarthen, and at Jesus See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford (1775-1778). In 1777 he studied See also:theology under the evangelical See also:John See also:Newton at See also:Olney. He was ordained See also:deacon in 1778 on the See also:title of the curacies of Shepton See also:Beauchamp and Sparkford, See also:Somerset; and took See also:priest's orders in 1780. He afterwards added to his See also:charge at Sparkford, Lovington, See also:South See also:Barrow and See also:North Barrow, and in See also:September 1782 was presented to the perpetual curacy of South Barrow by the Rev. John See also:Hughes, Coln St Denys. But he never See also:left Sparkford, though the contrary has been maintained, until he resigned all his curacies in See also:June 1783, and returned to See also:Wales, marrying (on See also:August 20th) Sarah See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones of See also:Bala, the See also:orphan of a flourishing shopkeeper. He had See also:early fallen under the See also:influence of the See also:great revival See also:movement in Wales, and at the See also:age of seventeen had been " converted " by a See also:sermon of See also:Daniel See also:Rowland's. This was enough to make him unpopular with many of the Welsh See also:clergy, and being denied the See also:privilege of See also:preaching for nothing at two churches, he helped his old Oxford friend John See also:Mayor, now See also:vicar of Shawbury, See also:Shropshire, from October until See also:January nth, 1784. On the 25th of January he took charge of Llan yn Mowddwy (14 M. from Bala), but was not allowed to continue there more than three months. Three influential See also:people, among them the See also:rector of Bala, agitated some of the parishioners against him, and persuaded his rector to dismiss him. His preaching, his catechizing of the See also:children after evensong, and his connexion with the Bala Methodists—his wife's stepfather being a Methodist preacher—gave great offence. After a fort-See also:night more at Shawbury, he wrote to John Newton and another clergyman friend in See also:London for See also:advice. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:England denied him employment, and the Methodists desired his services. His See also:friends advised him to return to England, but it was too See also:late. By September he had crossed the See also:Rubicon, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Newman (his rector at Shepton Beauchamp and Sparkford) accompanying him on a tour in See also:Carnarvonshire. In See also:December, he was preaching at the Bont Uchel Association; so that he joined the Methodists (see CALVINISTIC METHODISTS) in 1784.
Before taking this step, he had been wont in his enforced leisure to gather the poor children of Bala into his See also:house for instruction, and so thickly did they come that he had to adjourn with them to the See also:chapel. This was the origin of the Welsh Circulating See also:Schools, which he See also:developed on the lines adopted by See also:Griffith Jones (d. 1761), formerly vicar of Llanddowror. First one See also:man was trained for the See also:work by himself, then he was sent to a See also:district for six months, where, (for £8 a See also:year) he taught gratis the children and See also:young people (in fact, all comers) See also:reading and See also:Christian principles. See also:Writing was added later. The expenses were met by collections made in the Calvinistic Methodist See also:Societies, and as the funds increased masters were multiplied,
until in 1786 Charles had seven masters to whom he paid £lo per annum; in 1787, twelve; in 1789, fifteen; in 1794, twenty. By this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the See also:salary had been increased to £12; in 1801 it was £14. He had learnt of See also:Raikes's See also:Sunday Schools before he left the See also:Establishment, but he rightly considered the See also:system set on See also:foot by himself far See also:superior; the work and See also:object being the same, he gave six days' tuition for every one given by them, and many people not only objected to working as teachers on Sunday, but thought the children forgot in the six days what they learnt on the one. But Sunday Schools were first adopted by Charles to meet the See also:case of young people in service who could not attend during the See also:week, and even in that See also:form much opposition was shown to them because teaching was thought to be a form of See also:Sabbath breaking. His first Sunday School was in 1787. Wilber-force, Charles See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant, John See also:Thornton and his son Henry, were among the philanthropists who contributed to his funds; in 1798 the Sunday School Society (established 1785) extended its operations to Wales, making him its See also:agent, and Sunday Schools See also:grew rapidly in number and favour. A powerful revival See also:broke out at Bala in the autumn of 1791, and his See also:account of it in letters to correspondents, sent without his knowledge to magazines, kindled a similar See also:fire at See also:Huntly. The scarcity of Welsh bibles was Charles's greatest difficulty in his work. John Thornton and Thomas See also:Scott helped him to secure supplies from the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge from 1787 to 1789, when the stock became all but exhausted. In 1799 a new edition was brought out by the Society, and he managed to secure 700 copies of the lo,000 issued; the Sunday School Society got 3000 testaments printed, and most of them passed into his hands in 1801.
In 1800, when a See also:- FROST (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch, vorst, Ger. Frost, from the common Teutonic verb meaning " to freeze," Dutch, vriezcn, Ger. frieren; the Indo-European root is seen in Lat. pruina, hoar-frost, cf. prurire, to itch, burn, pruna, burning coal, Sans
- FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD (1810–1877)
frost-bitten thumb gave him great See also:pain and much fear for his See also:life, his friend, Rev. See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Oliver of See also:Chester, died, leaving him director and one of three trustees over his chapel at See also:Boughton; and this added much to his anxiety. The Welsh causes at See also:Manchester and London, too, gave him much uneasiness, and burdened him with great responsibilities at this juncture. In See also:November 1802 he went to London, and on the 7th of December he sat at a See also:committee See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of the Religious See also:Tract Society, as a See also:country member, when his friend, See also:Joseph Tarn—a member of the See also:Spa See also:Fields and Religious Tract Society committees—introduced the subject of a See also:regular See also:supply of bibles for Wales. Charles was asked to See also:state his case to the committee, and so forcibly did he impress them, that it was there and then decided to move in the See also:matter of a See also:general See also:dispersion of the See also:bible. When he visited London a year later, his friends were ready to discuss the name of a new Society, and the See also:sole object of which should be to supply bibles. Charles returned to Wales on the 30th of January 1804, and the See also:British and See also:Foreign Bible Society was formally and publicly inaugurated on See also:March the 7th. The first Welsh testament issued by that Society appeared on the 6th of May 1806, the bible on the 7th of May 18o7—both being edited by Charles.
Between 1805 and 1811 he issued his Biblical See also:Dictionary in four volumes, which still remains the See also:standard work of its See also:kind in Welsh. Three See also:editions of his Welsh See also:catechism were published for the use of his schools (1789, 1791 and 1794); an See also:English catechism for the use of schools in See also:Lady See also:Huntingdon's Connexion was See also:drawn up by him in 1797; his shorter catechism in Welsh appeared in 1799, and passed through several editions, in Welsh and English, before 1807, when his Instructor (still the Connexional catechism) appeared. From See also:April 1799 to December 1801 six See also:numbers of a Welsh See also:magazine called Trysorfa Ysprydol (Spiritual See also:Treasury) were edited by Thomas Jones of See also:Mold and himself; in March 1809 the first number of the second See also:volume appeared, and the twelfth and last in November 1813.
The London Hibernian Society asked him to accompany Dr See also:David See also:Bogue, the Rev. Joseph Hughes, and See also:Samuel See also:Mills to See also:Ireland in August 1807, to See also:report on the state of See also:Protestant See also:religion in the country. Their report is still extant, and among the movements initiated as a result of their visit was the Circulating School system. In 1810, owing to the growth of See also:Methodism and the lack of ordained ministers, he led the Connexion in the movement for connexionally ordained ministers, and his influencewas the See also:chief See also:factor in the success of that important step. From 1811 to 1814 his See also:energy was mainly devoted to establishing See also:auxiliary Bible Societies. By See also:correspondence he stimulated some friends in See also:Edinburgh to establish charity schools in the High-lands, and the Gaelic School Society (1811) was his See also:idea. His last work was a corrected edition of the Welsh Bible issued in small See also:pica by the Bible Society. As a preacher he was in great See also:request, though possessing but few of the qualities of the popular preacher. All his work received very small remuneration; the See also:family was maintained by the profits of a business managed by Mrs Charles —a keen, active and See also:good woman. He died on the 5th of October 1814. His influence is still See also:felt, and he is rightly claimed as one of the makers of See also:modern Wales. (D. E.
End of Article: CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)
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