Background
Thomas Gee was born on the 24th of January, 1815 in Denbigh, Denbighshire, United Kingdom.
journalist Nonconformist preacher
Thomas Gee was born on the 24th of January, 1815 in Denbigh, Denbighshire, United Kingdom.
In 1837 Thomas Gee went to London to improve his knowledge of printing, and on his return to Wales in the following year, he threw himself into literary, educational and religious work. This paper soon became regarded as an oracle in Wales, and played a great part in promoting the nationalist and home rule movement in the country. In educational matters he waged a long and successful struggle on behalf of undenominational schools and for the establishment of the intermediate school system.
The Eisteddfod found in him a thorough friend and a wise counsellor. His commanding presence, mastery of diction, and resonant voice made him an effective platform speaker. He was ordained to the Calvinistic Methodist ministry, at Bala in 1847, and gave his time and talents ungrudgingly to Sunday school and temperance work.
Throughout his life he believed in the itinerant unpaid ministry rather than in the settled pastorate. When he died in 1898, his funeral was the most imposing ever seen in North Wales.