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THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect diploma in 1942. Thomas moved to Cardiff for the first time in 1940 with his family. At the outbreak of the Second World War he declared himself a conscientious objector, firstly being a Welsh Nationalist and secondly a pacifist. He worked with the architects Ivor Jones and John Bishop and afterwards in the office of the architect T. Alwyn Lloyd in Cardiff, 1942-47. He worked as an architect during the
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953) radio is reflected in the volume Quite early one morning (London, 1954). From 1942 to the end of the war he was employed as a script-writer for Strand Films in London. An example of his work in this medium is The Doctor and the devils (London, 1953). The period of war had interrupted his writing of poetry, though towards the end of the war Wales became increasingly his major home. At Llangain and New
THOMAS, GEORGE ISAAC (Arfryn; 1895 - 1941), musician and composer returning to Wales he was organist of Bethany chapel, Ammanford. He conducted singing festivals, lectured and composed solos and hymn tunes. He died 31 December 1941 and was buried in the cemetery of the old chapel, Betws, on 3 January 1942.
THOMAS, JOHN LUTHER (1881 - 1970), minister (Congl.) Hendy, Capel Newydd, Pontarddulais (1950-58). Besides being noted for his clear preaching and his great pastoral labours, he worked diligently for the missionary society and edited the Welsh section of The London Missionary Society Chronicle (1927-40), and was author of the pamphlet Y bwlch lle bu'r Sul (1942) for the Council of the Lord's Day Observance Society. He was also the author of a number of
THOMAS, LAWRENCE (1889 - 1960), archdeacon , near Oxford, and was also a student at St. John's College Oxford, where he gained B.A. (3rd-class honours) Divinity 1916, M.A. 1920. From 1916-24 he served as curate of St. John's, Cardiff. He obtained the living of Briton Ferry in 1924 where he remained until 1942, continuing his studies. He gained B. Litt. at Oxford in 1926; B.D. Trinity College Dublin in 1929 and D.D. 1930. In 1930 he published
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant this ministry was taken over by Lord Beaverbrook he was made director. When the Ministry of Production was set up in 1942 he became regional director and chairman of the Welsh region, a post he held while the ministry existed. Sir Stafford Cripps invited him to continue as an independent chairman of the Welsh board and as a member of the National Productivity Advisory Council. He became one of the
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman throughout a lifetime of service as a Welsh Anglican cleric that took him first over to Chirk (1937-40), Hanmer and Tallarn Green (1940-42) and Manafon (1942-54), all on the Welsh border, before circling back via Eglwys-fach (1954-67), just north of Aberystwyth, to Aberdaron (1967-78), on the furthest tip of the Llŷn peninsula he described as a bough suspended between sea and sky. Having completed an
THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons Methodist lay-preacher extending for over forty years was to take him to almost every town in Wales and even to the United States. Thomas entered political life via the National Union of Teachers, and, declared medically unfit for active service during World War II, he was elected to the executive of the NUT in 1942, serving until 1945. He was also president of the Cardiff Teachers' Association. He joined
THOMAS, WILLIAM (bu farw 1813), Unitarian Baptist minister hailed from Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, was baptized there, but removed when still young to Llandyfân, Carmarthenshire, and thence to the neighbourhood of Pant Teg, Cilrhedyn, Carmarthenshire. He must have begun preaching before 1795, for in February of that year (Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1942, 17) we find him preaching at a quarterly meeting at Llwyndafydd, Cardiganshire. In
TREFGARNE, GEORGE MORGAN (1st BARON TREFGARNE of Cleddau), (1894 - 1960), barrister-at-law and politician into trade conditions there. Late in 1929 he joined the Labour party (but rejoined the Liberals in 1958) and was the first Welshman to represent a Scottish constituency when he was elected M.P. (Lab.) for Aberdeen, 1935-45. Meanwhile he commenced practice on the South Wales Circuit in 1939. For three years he was parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Production, 1942-45, and concurrently deputy
TRUEMAN, Sir ARTHUR ELIJAH (1894 - 1956), Professor of geology London, and was awarded the Bigsby Medal of that Society in 1939, and their highest award, the Wollaston Medal, in 1955. Other distinctions which he gained were the Gold Medal of the South Wales Institute of Engineers in 1934, LL.D. hon. causa of the Universities of Rhodes, Glasgow, Leeds and Wales, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1938 and F.R.S. in 1942. He was created K.B.E. in 1951. His
TURNBULL, MAURICE JOSEPH LAWSON (1906 - 1944), cricketer and rugby player Maurice Turnbull was born in Cardiff on 16 March 1906, the third of the six children of Philip Bernard Turnbull (1879-1930), ship-owner, and his wife Annie Marie Hennessy Oates (c.1879-1942). His father was a Welsh international hockey player who won a bronze medal with the Welsh team at the 1908 Olympics. Maurice was educated at Downside School and Cambridge University. He married Elizabeth

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