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THOMAS, WILLIAM (bu farw 1554), Italian scholar and clerk of the Privy Council to king Edward VI His career, which was described fairly fully in the D.N.B. (in 1898) by (Sir) Daniel Lleufer Thomas, can be briefly outlined as follows: He was a Welshman from Radnorshire (Brecknock?), who was presumably educated at Oxford (a William Thomas was admitted bachelor of the canon law on 2 December 1529) and who lived for some five years in Italy (Bologna, Padua, etc.), where he wrote a defence of
THOMAS, Sir WILLIAM JAMES (1867 - 1945), BARONET, coalowner, philanthropist pits. He left the greater part of his fortune to his grandson who displayed business acumen in the management of the mines and great consideration for the workers' welfare. Sir William, who was a director of the Great Western Railway, the Barry Dock and Railway and other companies, disposed of his mining interests in 1914 to the United National Collieries Ltd. Among his public gifts were £100,000 to
TILLEY, ALBERT (1896 - 1957), mace-bearer at Brecon cathedral and local historian E.F. Morgan and Sir John Conway Lloyd he specialised in the history of the town and of his adopted county. He devoted himself to collecting material on local history, copying inscriptions in churches and cemeteries and other sources. He possessed an artistic talent and interested himself in the heraldry of the county and in the pedigrees of its families. Amongst his leisure interests was the
TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK (1855 - 1929), historian who is fully treated by V. H. Galbraith in D.N.B., 1922-30 and by Sir Maurice Powicke in Proceedings of the British Academy, 1929. Although Tout did most of his work in Manchester he is noted here since much of his work dealt with Wales and it was in Wales that it was begun. He was professor of history at St. David's College, 1881-90. In the words of Galbraith, ' his years at Lampeter were the
TRAHERNE, JOHN MONTGOMERY (1788 - 1860), antiquary . Many of his writings were anonymous or written under pseudonyms, but he gave great assistance to his friends, e.g. to L. W. Dillwyn, author of Contributions to the History of Swansea. His chief work was as editor of the Stradling Correspondence, 1870, and among others may be mentioned Historical Notices of Sir Matthew Cradock, 1840, and Lists of Knights of the Shire of Glamorgan, 1822. He was deeply
TREFGARNE, GEORGE MORGAN (1st BARON TREFGARNE of Cleddau), (1894 - 1960), barrister-at-law and politician officer to the U.S. Air Service, returning as private secretary to Sir Hamar Greenwood (1919-21). A versatile and vigorous man, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1923 and was at the same time London editor of the Daily Despatch, resigning after two years when he became M.P. (L.) for South Hackney, 1924-29. In 1928 he went to Nigeria as a member of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation to inquire
teulu TREVOR Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, The Trevalun Trevors were founded by RICHARD, sometimes called Sir RICHARD TREVOR (fl. 1500), 4th son of John Trevor ' hên ' and sixteenth in descent 'o dad i dad' from Tudur Trevor of Brynkynallt, who acquired the estate by marriage with Mallt, heiress of David ap Gruffydd of Allington (died 1476). Richard's great-grandson JOHN TREVOR (died 1589) fought in the French wars of Henry VIII as a
teulu TREVOR Brynkynallt, known for persistent feuds with its neighbours, the Kyffin s, and later the Myddelton 's, the latter lasting till the early 18th century (Wynn, The history of the Gwydir family, 1927 ed., 41-5; Edwards, Star Chamber Proceedings, 68; Myddelton, Chirk Castle Accts., 1605-66, 14 and n.; Cust, Chronicles of Erthig, i, 51, 57). The founder of the family fortunes was Sir EDWARD TREVOR (died 1642) Military
TREVOR, Sir CHARLES GERALD (1882 - 1959), inspector of forests Born 28 December 1882, son of Sir Francis Wollaston Trevor (of Trawscoed, Welshpool) and Mary Helen (née Mytton). He was educated at Wellington College and at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill. In 1903 he joined the Indian Forest Service as assistant conservator in Punjab. He was conservator of forests of the United Provinces in 1920 and became vice-president and Professor of
TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (bu farw c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary lion (i.e. William), gave hospitality to the old Earls.A welcome was given to the King, Henry VII,And his Earls; he was great once.She gave service all her life,To the one who is Queen today (i.e. Mary I) …. Blanche was one of the eleven co-heiresses (a son and daughter died young) of Simon Milborne and Jane (Baskerville) of Burghill, Herefordshire. The family had wide-spread connections. Sir William
TRUEMAN, Sir ARTHUR ELIJAH (1894 - 1956), Professor of geology
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet to the battle of Blackheath (1497) (see op. cit., I, iv, 5; vii, 56), while his editor thought he saw a reference to the battle of Bosworth (1485) in his cywydd to Sir William Gruffudd the Chamberlain (op. cit., I, xxxiii, 31-4, 49), from which he deduced that the poet must have started writing shortly before that as, according to the established custom of the bards, his earliest cywyddau would

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