Timothy Thomas

Timothy Thomas (1753-1827) pastored the Baptist congregation at Devonshire Square, London, from 1781 until his death in 1827. His wife was the half-sister of Caleb Evans of Broadmead in Bristol. For many years he also conducted a school in Islington (see letter 91).  His father, Joshua Thomas (1719-1797), pastored the Baptist meeting at Leominster, 1753-1797. The latter was a Baptist historian of some note, publishing A History of the Baptist Association in Wales from . . . 1650 in 1795. Like his cousin, Thomas Thomas, Timothy also attended Bristol Academy. See “Dissenters’ Schools, 1660–1820,” Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society 4 (1914–1915), 227; 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), 247.