Thomas Bevan [SEP] date of birth
Thomas Bevan
Thomas Bevan (c.1796 – 31 January 1819) was, with fellow Welshman David Jones, the first Christian missionary to Madagascar, sent by the London Missionary Society.
Life and work.
Bevan was born in the neighbourhood of Neuaddlwyd, Cardiganshire, about 1796. He came from a religious home, and at the age of 8, he was already a reader of the Bible. He experienced conversion near Nantgwynfynydd farm and on 19 November 1810, became a church member at Neuaddlwyd. There, the minister
Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist (died 1825)
- Sir John Stepney, 8th Baronet, politician (died 1811)
Deaths.
- 6 March - Arthur Bevan, barrister and husband of Bridget Bevan, 56
- 15 July - John Wynne, bishop, 85
- "date unknown"
- Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian
- Robert Wynne, priest and academic