Thomas Shaw (Methodist minister)

Thomas Shaw was a Cornish bard^[1] and historian, born in Manchester in 1916^[2] 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.

• Menhinick Family: the History and Genealogy of a Cornish family (1950)^[3]
• 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)

Shaw died in 2001, aged 85.

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