Thomas Llewelyn

Thomas Llewelyn (1720?-1793) was a Welshman. He studied at Bristol Academy and Homerton Academy, London, prior to his ordination at Little Prescot Street, Goodman’s Fields, c. 1747. He chose to establish himself in London as a teacher of ministerial students, becoming the primary tutor for the newly founded London Baptist Educational Society (1752-1759). His immediate successors were Joseph Stennett, Joseph Jenkins, and William Clarke of Unicorn Yard. He continued to support the LBES, leaving £100 to the Society at his death. He bequeathed his library, however, to Bristol Academy. Llewelyn’s main achievements were his important historical studies of Welsh versions of the Bible and his work with the Society for the Propagating of Christian Knowledge (and other groups) in distributing Welsh Bibles. See Arnold H. J. Baines, “The Pre-History of Regent’s Park College,” Baptist Quarterly 36 (1995-1996), 193-196; Roger Hayden, Continuity and Change: Evangelical Calvinism among Eighteenth-Century Baptist Ministers trained at Bristol Academy, 1690–1791 (London: Baptist Historical Society, for Roger Hayden, 2006), 238.