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See also:GEE, 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 (1815—1898) , Welsh See also:Nonconformist preacher and journalist, was See also:born at See also:Denbigh on the 24th of See also:January 1815. At the See also:age of fourteen he went into his See also:father's See also:printing See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, but continued to attend the See also:grammar school in the afternoons. In 1837 he went to See also:London to improve his knowledge of printing, and on his return to See also:Wales in the following See also:year ardently threw himself into See also:literary, educational and religious See also:work. Among his publications were the well-known quarterly See also:magazine Y Traethodydd (" The Essayist "), Gwyddoniadur Cymreig (" See also:Encyclopaedia Cambrensis "), and Dr Silvan See also:Evans's See also:English-Welsh See also:Dictionary (1868), but his greatest achievement in this See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field was the newspaper See also:Baner Cymru (" The Banner of Wales "), founded in 1859 and amalgamated with Yr Amserau (" The Times ") two years later. This See also:paper soon became an See also:oracle in Wales, and played a See also:great See also:part in stirring up the nationalist See also:movement in the principality. In educational matters he waged a See also:long and successful struggle on behalf of undenominational See also:schools and for the See also:establishment of the intermediate school See also:system. He was an enthusiastic See also:advocate of 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 disestablishment, and had a historic newspaper See also:duel with Dr See also:John See also:Owen (afterwards See also:bishop of St See also:David's) on this question. The See also:Eisteddfod found in him a thorough friend and a See also:wise counsellor. His commanding presence, mastery of diction, and resonant See also:voice made him an effective See also:platform See also:speaker. He was ordained to the Calvinistic Methodist See also:ministry at See also:Bala in 1847, and gave his 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 and talents ungrudgingly to See also:Sunday school and See also:temperance work. Through-out his See also:life he believed in the itinerant unpaid ministry rather than in the settled pastorate. He died on the 28th of See also:September 1898, and his funeral was the most imposing ever seen in See also:North Wales.
End of Article: GEE, THOMAS (1815—1898)
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