EMLYN, THOMAS (1663-1741), English nonconformist divine, was born at Stamford, Lincolnshire. He served as chap lain to the presbyterian Letitia, countess of Donegal, and then to Sir Robert Rich, afterwards (1691) becoming colleague to Joseph Boyse, presbyterian minister in Dublin. From this office he was virtually dismissed on his own confession of unitarianism, and for publishing An Humble Inquiry into the Scripture Account of Jesus Christ (1702) was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of LI,000. Thanks to the intervention of Boyse he was released in 1705 on payment of I9o. He is said to have been the first English preacher definitely to describe himself as "unitarian." Emlyn preached a good deal in Paul's Alley, Barbican, in his later years, and died in London in i741.