Joshua Thomas

He was the eldest son of Morgan Thomas of Tyhên in the parish of Caio, Carmarthenshire, where he was born on 22 February 1719.

Simon Thomas was the author of works in Welsh and in English, mostly printed at a private press of his own, including Hanes y Byd a'r Amseroedd, a summary of universal history.

[1] In 1746 Joshua Thomas married and settled in business at Hay, Breconshire, where he preached occasionally at the Baptist chapel of Maesyberllan, where he was appointed co-pastor in 1749.

[1] Thomas's major work was his history of the Baptists in Wales, published in 1778 under the title Hanes y Bedyddwyr ymhlith y Cymry, o amser yr Apostolion hyd y flwyddyn hon, Carmarthen.

The author's own manuscript translation into English of this work, with additions, was preserved in the Baptists' Library in Bristol.