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THOMAS, DAVID (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759 - 1822), man of letters and poet freedom' but that 'this freedom should be sparingly used lest a way should be opened for unworthy rhymesters to break into the realm of poetry.' He was a more reliable authority on the rules of the classical metres than anybody else in his generation, and Sir John Morris-Jones declares that Dafydd Ddu' system, as amended by Bardd Nantglyn (Robert Davies, 1769 - 1835), and revised, either by Dafydd Ddu
THOMAS, DAVID ALFRED (first viscount RHONDDA), (1856 - 1918), businessman and politician, Liberal Member of Parliament (1800 - 1879), was educated at Cowbridge, became a shopkeeper at Merthyr Tydfil, but afterwards (c. 1842) turned to prospecting for coal. He married, as his second wife, Rachel, daughter of Morgan Joseph, a mining engineer of Merthyr Tydfil, and by her had seventeen children, of whom D. A. Thomas was the fifteenth, born 26 March 1856 at Ysgubor-wen Aberdare, where Samuel Thomas and his brother-in-law
THOMAS, DAVID EMLYN (1892 - 1954), politician and trade unionist qualify as an engineer. In 1906, at 13 years of age, he began working as clerk at the Oakwood and Garth collieries, he moved to a colliery at Llantrisant and then to the Caerau colliery, Maesteg. Thomas became a full-time official of the South Wales Miners' Federation in 1919 and served as secretary to Vernon Hartshorn and Ted Williams (see Williams, Sir Edward John below). In the same year he joined
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 VAUGHAN (1873 - 1934), musician musical education from Dr. Joseph Parry, Swansea. He went to Llandovery College, from which he gained an open mathematical scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford He graduated 3rd class at Oxford in 1895, M.A. 1905, B.Mus. 1906, D.Mus. 1911. After leaving Oxford he taught mathematics in the United Services College, Westward Ho!, and then returned to Wales to start his musical career. He married, 1906
THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect . Dewi-Prys Thomas was educated in Liverpool. He was persuaded by the architect and academician Lionel Bailey Budden to study architecture at Liverpool University rather than art. He entered Liverpool University in 1933, and after graduating with a first class honours BArch degree in 1939 and having won a number of prizes he went on to study town planning with Sir William Holford and was awarded a
THOMAS, EDWARD WILLIAM (1814 - 1892), musician 1875, and Liverpool 1885. He composed many pieces for the violin, one violin concerto by him being dedicated to Joseph Joachim. His ' Can Bugail Morgannwg ' appeared in Greal y Corau, May 1861. Towards the end of his life he resided at the Dinas Dinlle Hotel, near Caernarvon, and it was there that he died on 4 October 1892; he was buried in Llandwrog churchyard.
THOMAS, HUGH OWEN (1834 - 1891), orthopaedic surgeon because his works were not well produced, and he chose an obscure publisher. Furthermore, he worked in isolation and could not be induced to disclose his teaching at scientific meetings. His work went unrecognised during his lifetime but afterwards his nephew, Sir Robert Jones, whom he trained, succeeded in bringing his teaching and the use of his splints before the profession. During the first world
THOMAS, IFOR (1877 - 1918), geologist and inspector of schools Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, setting up home in Swansea. He placed great emphasis on the teaching of Welsh in schools at a time when that was not fashionable and he won the respect and admiration of Sir Owen M. Edwards for his work on behalf of the language. He wrote many scholarly articles on geological subjects in The Geological Magazine and he also contributed articles to Seren Gomer and Y Genhinen
THOMAS, SIR JAMES WILLIAM TUDOR (1893 - 1976), ophthalmic surgeon surgical means of blindness due to the opacity of the cornea'. By this time Thomas had become (after Daniel - later Sir Daniel Davies), in 1929, the second person to obtain the MD of the University of Wales, and in 1931 would become a DSc of the same university and the holder of a Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in acknowledgement of his research prowess. His clinical
THOMAS, JEFFREY (1933 - 1989), barrister and Labour\/SDP politician election of 1966, where he came within 1394 votes of toppling the sitting Conservative MP Sir Raymond Gower. He served as the Labour MP for his native Abertillery, 1970-83 (as a SDP member from 1981). His majority in the general election of June 1970 was almost 20,000. He also stood, though rather half-heartedly, as the SDP-Alliance candidate for Cardiff West in the general election of 1983. He was a
THOMAS, JOHN (1886 - 1933), chemist Born 2 April 1886 at Whitford, Flintshire, son of Richard Thomas, blacksmith, and Elizabeth (Morris), his wife. The family moved to Harlech, where the son was educated at the local board school; later he went to Barmouth county school. He entered University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1904 as Sir Alfred Jones scholar, and graduated in 1907 with 1st class honours in chemistry. A year of

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