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THOMAS, DAVID ALFRED (first viscount RHONDDA), (1856 - 1918), businessman and politician, Liberal Member of Parliament combinations and the opening up of the remote northwest of Canada were included in the wide sweep of his horizon as a captain of industry. Empire building in the world of business was not, however, to be his chief claim to fame. D. Lloyd George sent him on an important mission to the United States in 1915, after which he was made a peer; in December 1916 he was appointed president of the local Government
THOMAS, DAVID EMLYN (1892 - 1954), politician and trade unionist authority on workmen's compensation. On 5 December 1946 at a by-election Thomas became M.P. (Lab.) for the Aberdare division in succession to George Hall. He continued to represent this constituency in parliament until his death. He was re-elected with a majority of almost 28,000 votes in 1951. Emlyn Thomas was a quiet, modest individual - ' the gentle man in Welsh politics ' - who always served his
THOMAS, DAVID FFRANGCON (1910 - 1963), cellist Born 19 September 1910 at Plas-marl, Swansea, son of W. Roger Thomas and his wife. He was named Ffrangcon after the singer David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, one of his father's heroes. When he was eleven years old he began to learn to play the cello under Gwilym Thomas, Port Talbot, and within two years won a scholarship to the Cello School of Herbert Walenn in London. He won prizes at the national
THOMAS, DAVID JOHN (Afan; 1881 - 1928), musician Born 15 April 1881 at Cwmafan, Glamorganshire, son of Evan Thomas (choir conductor) and his wife (who was a singer and the daughter of David Nicholas, himself a knowledgeable musician). As a boy, he learned to play the piano and violin and, later, in a Bournemouth church and at Llandaff cathedral, was taught to play the organ. He studied under many music teachers and, among them, under Dr. Joseph
THOMAS, DAVID RICHARD (1833 - 1916), cleric and historian
THOMAS, DAVID VAUGHAN (1873 - 1934), musician lyrics, and left a considerable body of instrumental work, most of which is still unpublished. As a composer Vaughan Thomas is best remembered for the originality and scholarship which he brought to his settings of Welsh poetry, especially in his ' Saith o Ganeuon.' Less well known, but equally notable for their lyrical beauty, are his songs on English words by George Meredith. Vaughan Thomas was a
THOMAS, DAVID WALTER (1829 - 1905), cleric
THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect adopted the hyphen in his name later in his life. His father was treasurer of the Welsh Nationalist Party (Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru) and his mother was national treasurer of the Welsh Pacifists. Ambrose Bebb and George M. Ll. Davies were regular visitors to the family home in Liverpool, and Dewi-Prys joined the Welsh Nationalist Party under the influence of Ambrose Bebb when he was fifteen years old
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953) Born 27 October 1914 in Swansea, son of David John Thomas and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams) who themselves came from rural, Welsh -speaking families in Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire. The father, a nephew of William Thomas ' Gwilym Marles ', was from 1899 to 1936 English master at Swansea grammar school, which Dylan Thomas attended from 1925 to 1931. That was his only period of
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer Dylan Thomas was born at 5, Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea, on 27 October 1914. He was the son of David John Thomas (1876-1952) and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams, 1882-1958), who came from rural Welsh-speaking families in north and south west Carmarthenshire respectively. The parents spoke Welsh to each other, but the father (a First Class Honours English graduate of the University College
THOMAS, EVAN CAMBRIA (1867 - 1930), doctor and public health pioneer . During the First World War he was appointed Medical Officer of Health for Carmarthenshire, taking over from Dr David Arthur Hughes (1867-1936) who served in the Army Medical Corps. Dr Evan Cambria Thomas died of cardiac failure and pulmonary congestion at Pantllyn, Llanybydder on 14 March 1930, and was buried at St. Luke's Church, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire.
THOMAS, EVAN LORIMER (1872 - 1953), priest and scholar Born 21 February 1872, son of David Walter Thomas, vicar of St. Ann, Llandygái, Caernarfonshire, and his wife Anna ('Morfudd Eryri'). He was educated at Westminster School and Jesus College, Oxford. Like his father, he was a scholar of his college. He was trained for holy orders in the Clerical School, Leeds. He served as curate of St. Mary's, Bangor, 1897-98, Wrexham, 1898-1900, Cuddesdon

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1669 - 1680 of 1926 for "david lloyd george"