Thomas Shaw
Cornish bard, historian, and Methodist minister
About Thomas Shaw
Lived 1916 – 2001 (aged 84–85).
Thomas Shaw was a Cornish bard and historian, born in Manchester in 1916 who spent thirty- four years in Cornwall as a Methodist minister. He is best known as the author of many books on Cornish Methodism. In 1961 he was made a bard of the Cornish Gorsedd taking the bardic name 'Ystoryer Methysyeth' in recognition of his studies in Cornish Methodism.
Works Menhinick Family: the History and Genealogy of a Cornish family (1950) The Bible Christians 1815-1907 (1961) Methodism in Probus, 1781-1961 (1961) Methodism in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit (1963) A History of Cornish Methodism (1967) Foolish Dick and his Chapel: The Story of Porthtowan Methodism 1796-1967 Thomas Treffrey Senior (1969) The Pastoral Crook- Religion in Cornwall in the Mid- nineteenth century (1969) A Methodist Guide to Cornwall (updated by Colin Short, 2005)
Death Shaw died in 2001, aged 85.
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Who was Thomas Shaw?
cornish bard, historian, and Methodist minister
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Thomas Shaw was born in 1916.
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Thomas Shaw died in 2001.
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