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THOMAS, GEORGE ISAAC (Arfryn; 1895 - 1941), musician and composer
THOMAS, HUGH (1673 - 1720), herald and antiquary other books are, of course, incorrect.) As he had no children, his widow Margaret, daughter of George Wood of Abergavenny, was the sole beneficiary under the will, apart from certain legacies. His collection of pedigrees and other manuscripts was left to Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, and so, ultimately, came to the British Museum. He had a brother who, according to the will, was heavily in his debt
THOMAS, JOHN (1646? - 1695), cleric , by bishop George Hickes; it is said that he was held in high regard by bishop Lloyd of St Asaph and bishop Humphreys of Bangor. Thomas died 4 November 1695, and was buried at Penegoes.
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist asked to change her style. She published (under the name Jane Ann Jones) Storïau hen ferch (Gwasg Aberystwyth, 1937); Y bryniau pell (Gwasg Gee, 1949); Diwrnod yw ein bywyd (Hughes a'i Fab, 1954); Plant y Foty (George Ronald, Cardiff, 1955); Ann a Defi John (Gwasg y Brython, 1958). George Ronald, Cardiff, had intended publishing a children's series, ' Storïau Ann a Defi John ' and it is interesting
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA), (1883 - 1958), author, editor and chairperson of companies Born 12 June 1883 in Bayswater, London, the only child of David Alfred Thomas and his wife Sybil Margaret, daughter of George Augustus Haig, Pen Ithon, Radnorshire. She was taught initially by private governess at home. Then she was sent to Notting Hill secondary school, where she started a printed magazine, The Shooting Star, to which her relations contributed. From there she went to St
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman annually. In May 1915 she and her father returned from a business trip in the United States on the RMS Lusitania. When it was torpedoed she almost drowned but was rescued after several hours in the sea. Her father also survived but died three years later due to the pressure of ministerial work - Lloyd George had made him Food Controller - and long-term heart problems. In 1917 she had been appointed
THOMAS, Sir NOAH (1720 - 1792), medical man Born in Neath in 1720, the son of Hophni Thomas, master mariner. He went to school at Oakham, and in 1738 entered S. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1742 (M.D. 1753). He settled in London, was elected F.R.S. in 1753, and obviously distinguished himself as a medical man, for he was appointed physician to George III, and was knighted in 1775. He died at Bath, 17 May 1792. His name
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress four occasions was the play for voices by Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood. She took part in Douglas Cleverdon's radio productions of this play in 1954 and 1963, then in the film directed by Andrew Sinclair in 1972, and again in the radio production by George Martin, the Beatles' producer, in 1987. Nor did she neglect the theatre during her sixty-year performing career. She appeared, for instance, in
THOMAS, ROBERT (1782 - 1860), printer and publisher Robert Thomas, the son of John and Mary Thomas, was born at Rhandregynwen, on 16 November 1782 (Rhandregynwen, Llanymynech, Montgomeryshire, OS Map 118, SJ 2819; various spellings, was and still is a substantial farm on the banks of the river Vyrnwy). He married Mary Harris of Southampton at the Church of the Holy Rood, 8 January 1818 and they had two sons (William Kyffin and Robert George) and
THOMAS, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1873 - 1951), politician and shipowner winning the seat at a by-election in April 1923 held following the death of Sir Owen Thomas. He continued to represent Anglesey in Parliament until May 1929 when he resigned in order to be able to give more attention to his commercial interests. His successor in the constituency was Lady Megan Lloyd George (see LLOYD GEORGE FAMILY above). He was declared bankrupt in 1930 and was not discharged until
THOMAS, SAMPSON (1739 - 1807), early Calvinistic Methodist exhorters It appears that he was a native of Tre-lech, Carmarthenshire, and that he came to Pembrokeshire on his marriage, in 1773; a person of that name, the son of a George Thomas, was christened in the parish of Tre-lech a'r Betws, 28 August 1739. He was converted in 1760, and in 1773, as already stated, he married and went to live to his wife's home near Caerfarchell, Pembrokeshire, where there was a

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