Thomas Thomas

Thomas Thomas (1759-1819) was the son of Timothy Thomas of Abderduar, Thomas Thomas attended Bristol Academy, 1778-1780. He served as the Baptist minister at Pershore (1781-1789) and Mill Yard (1789-1799) before becoming a schoolmaster (and itinerant preacher) at Peckham. In 1813 he became one of the first secretaries of the Baptist Union. See Ernest A. Payne, The Baptist Union: A Short History  (London: Carey Kingsgate Press, 1959), 24, 26; C. M. Hardy, “Former Secretaries of the Baptist Union,” Baptist Quarterly 1 (1922-1923), 219; Hayden, Continuity and Crisis, 247.