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STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer were Maria Jane Williams and the Quaker Thomas Redwood (author of The Vale of Glamorgan. Scenes and Tales among the Welsh). Having first attended an elementary school 'located in a barn' near Cefn Rhigos, Stephens spent about three years at the Unitarian school founded by David Davis (1745-1827), which during his time there was under the care of John Davies, the former minister of Capelygroes in
teulu STRADLING , and his name appears on the pardon roll of queen Elizabeth, 1559. He was knighted, 1573, and was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1573-4, 1582-3, and 1595-6. He was responsible for great improvements in the buildings and gardens of S. Donats and on his estate, including sea-walls and a harbour at Aberthaw. He was the patron of Dr. John David Rhys, and bore the expense of printing 1;250 copies of his Grammar
TALBOT, CHARLES (1st baron Talbot of Hensol), (1685 - 1737), lord chancellor D.N.B.) had been hitherto associated mainly with England. It was when he married a Welsh heiress that his connection with Wales began. This was in the summer of 1708, his wife being Cecil, daughter of Charles Mathew, Castell Menich, Glamorgan, granddaughter and heiress of judge David Jenkins of Hensol. Talbot built at Hensol a Tudor-style castle to which his son added afterwards. He was raised to the
TEILO (fl. 6th century), Celtic saint cathedral church of Llandaff. The story told of S. Teilo at this late date was that he was born near Penally in south Pembrokeshire, became a disciple of Saint Dubricius, and afterwards studied with Paulinus at Llanddeusant in north Carmarthenshire, and there became associated with S. David. SS. Teilo and David, together with S. Padarn, are then made to undertake a visit to Jerusalem. After their return S
THICKENS, JOHN (1865 - 1952), minister (Presb.), historian and author Born 9 March 1865 at Abernantcwta, Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, son of David and Sarah Thickens. His father died when he was young, and his mother moved with the family to Pentre, Rhondda Valley. There, in Nazareth chapel, he began to preach, and he trained for the ministry at Trefeca College. He was ordained in 1894, and that year he married Cecilia Evans of Dowlais (sister of Sir David W. Evans
THIRLWALL, CONNOP (1797 - 1875), bishop of S. Davids he was not a Welshman - Yr Haul attacked the appointment, and Dewi o Ddyfed (David James, 1803 - 1871) wrote a strongly worded letter to Thirlwall begging him to decline the see, on the ground that no bishop in Wales should be ignorant of the Welsh language - the letter is reproduced in James ' biography, 32-9. Not only did Thirlwall bear no malice towards James (to whom he offered an archdeaconry
THODAY, DAVID (1883 - 1964), botanist, university professor Born 5 May 1883 at Honiton, Devon, the eldest of the six children of David Thoday, schoolmaster, and Susan Elizabeth (née Bingham) his wife. The family moved to London where he attended Tottenham grammar school, 1894-98, before entering Trinity College, Cambridge in 1902. He specialised in botany under the direction of H. Marshall Ward, A.C. Seward and F.F. Blackman, gaining first class in both
THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner member of the Society was David Thoday (1883-1964), also a botanist, whom Gladys married at Gresford Church in 1910. They had four sons, David Robert Gabriel Thoday, known as Robin (1911-1983); Peter Murray Thoday (1913-1999); John Marion Thoday (1916-2008), Balfour Professor of Genetics at Cambridge University 1959-1983, and Michael George Thoday (1920-1989). Before and after her marriage she was a
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (Myfyr Emlyn; 1836 - 1893), Baptist minister, poet, lecturer, and author Born at Tŷ-rhos, Whitchurch-in-Cemais, Pembrokeshire, October 1836, seventh of the eight children of David and Elizabeth Thomas, and brother of Stephen Thomas, Baptist minister of Pantycelyn. His father was one of the founders of the local Baptist church of Bethabara in 1826, and was a deacon there until his death, while it was at his home at Tŷ-rhos that the first Baptist Sunday school in the
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (1723 - 1790), Independent preacher and Methodist exhorter Pum Pregeth, 1772, his address is given as 'near Llechryd.' He is mentioned as one of the exhorters who attended the Llangeitho Associations (1778 and 1783). His grave adjoins that of David and Ebenezer Morris in Tredreyr churchyard, and his tombstone records that he died 12 April 1790 at the age of 77.
THOMAS, BENJAMIN BOWEN (1899 - 1977), adult educator and civil servant spheres, he drew on Welsh traditions of Christian social commitment and idealist internationalism by which he had been shaped, and to which he added a characteristic pragmatism. He was influenced by the example of David Davies, Lord Davies of Llandinam, the most cogent Welsh supporter of the League of Nations, and through a close co-operation with Dr Thomas Jones, the prominent Welsh civil servant and
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate this work by Rees Jenkin Jones of Aberdare, who had contributed to earlier volumes. He, in turn, invited (Sir) John Edward Lloyd, in August 1892, to undertake some of the biographies allocated to him. In all, Thomas contributed 27 biographies. In the meantime he had, in 1892, been appointed assistant commissioner to the royal commission on labour, and conducted enquiries in Wales which are embodied

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