1. Thomas Charles (1755–1814) was a Welsh Methodist clergyman and a key figure in the Welsh Bible Society.
2. It was through the preaching of the prominent Daniel Rowland that he was converted.
3. Thomas Charles was instrumental in founding the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1804, which aimed to provide affordable Bibles worldwide. He played a major role in the distribution of Welsh-language Bibles, greatly contributing to the spread of Christianity and literacy in Wales.
We learn about his organizing of Circulating Schools and Sunday Schools for the Christian education of the young, his editorial work on the Welsh Bible, the books he wrote (including a Bible Dictionary in Welsh), the magazines he edited, his involvement in the London Missionary Society, and his leadership of Welsh Methodism. “*Once he was assured of what had to be done and of his role in it, he responded with amazing vigour, perseverance and unrelenting labours*”_
Readers of this biography will feel the attraction of his humility, his zeal, his sense of humour, his love for Sally, his dedication to the cause of Christ, and his hard work, and of all his attributes, his spiritual wisdom and balance.