THOMAS

See also:

• THOMAS REES (1777–1864)

REES (1777–1864)  , Welsh Nonconformist divine, was born at Gelligron, Glamorgan, and educated at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen . He entered the Unitarian ministry in 1807 at Newington Green Chapel, London, removing to Southwark 1813 and to Stamford Street, Blackfriars, in 1823 . He had the degree of LL.D. of Glasgow (1819) . He had a great knowledge of the history of anti-trinitarian opinion, especially during the 16th century . His scattered papers, chiefly in the Monthly Repository (1818–22), on such subjects as " Faustus Socinus and Francis David," " The Italian Reformation," " Memoirs of the Socini," are important . Financial troubles drove him to Spain in 1853, and he died in obscurity at Brighton on the 1st of August 1864 . Another THOMAS REES (1815-1885), a native of Pen Pontbren, Carmarthenshire, held pastorates at Aberdare (1840), Llanelly (1842), Cendl, Mon . (1849) and Swansea (1862), 1 An illustration of one of these is given in T . L . Southgate's paper, " The Regal and its Successors," in English Music, 1604-1904, A'Iusic Story Series, 1906, p . 385 . ' The addition dates from the very end of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th century, and is connected with the advent of the harmonium (q.v.) .

and became chairman of the Congregational

Union of England and Wales, but died just before his term of office was to begin . His History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales (1861; 2nd ed . 1883) is a sound and judicious piece of work .