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THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner Gladys Thoday was born on 13 March 1884 in Chester, the first child of John Thorley Sykes (1852-1908), a cotton broker, and his wife Mary Louisa (née March, 1856-1951). She had one sister, Olive Thorley Sykes (1886-1933). The family later moved to the Sykes family home at Croes Howell near Gresford in Denbighshire. She was educated at the Queen's School, Chester, before going up at the age of
THOMAS PENLLYN (bu farw 1623), poet Cardiff MS. 20. He composed a number of cywyddau to members of the Salusbury family of Lleweni and to Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd. Elegies on his death by Richard Phillip and Gruffydd Hafren are found in NLW MS 719B and Cwrtmawr MS 11B.
THOMAS, BENJAMIN BOWEN (1899 - 1977), adult educator and civil servant Committee of the Welsh League of Nations Union, an early indication of his support for international cooperation in the cause of peace. He married Rhiannon Williams in 1930, and they had one daughter, Ann. His first wife died in 1932, and he later married Gweneth Davies (d. 1963). He was seconded to the Ministry of Labour and National Service in 1941, beginning a civil service career at the late age of 42
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate to read for the Bar. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn on 15 May 1889. He joined the South Wales circuit, holding his first brief at the Carmarthen assizes on 10 December 1889. He married, 18 June 1892, at S. Pancras church, Mary Gethin of Aberdare, a great-grand-daughter of Tomos Glyn Cothi. In 1891 he began contributing to the Dictionary of National Biography, having been introduced to
THOMAS, DAVID (bu farw 1780?), minister (Congl.) 362A), a few crumbs of information about him can be gathered from other manuscripts. It is evident from the scornful references made by Edmund Jones diary 1773 that he associated with Arians; it is also suggested that he was not a teetotaller. Edmund Jones's words, 'old David Thomas ', support the fact that Evan Davies was ordained there (3 August 1775) - as co-pastor, according to Hanes Eglwysi
THOMAS, DAVID (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759 - 1822), man of letters and poet Born April 1759, son of Thomas and Mary Griffith of Pen-y-bont, Waun-fawr. THOMAS GRIFFITH was a weaver at the Glynllifon fulling-mill; he was also a Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and he and his son John, born 8 December 1748, had charge of the cause at Waun-fawr and used to cross the mountain to Llanberis to hold the society meeting at Llwyncelyn. (JOHN THOMAS became a Methodist preacher, and
THOMAS, DAVID FFRANGCON (1910 - 1963), cellist Born 19 September 1910 at Plas-marl, Swansea, son of W. Roger Thomas and his wife. He was named Ffrangcon after the singer David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, one of his father's heroes. When he was eleven years old he began to learn to play the cello under Gwilym Thomas, Port Talbot, and within two years won a scholarship to the Cello School of Herbert Walenn in London. He won prizes at the national
THOMAS, DAVID RICHARD (1833 - 1916), cleric and historian Born in 1833 (christened 14 September 1833), the second son and third child of Owen Thomas, ' gentleman farmer,' of Bodynfol, Llanfechain, and Mary his wife. He was educated at Ruthin school under E. L. Barnwell, and went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1852, although the family was reduced in circumstances owing to his father's sudden death, and he was forced to teach in the vacations in order to
THOMAS, DAVID WALTER (1829 - 1905), cleric vicar of Braunston, Northants, he returned to Wales in August 1895, as vicar of Holyhead. He died 27 December 1905, and was buried at Holyhead. He was largely instrumental in the foundation of a Welsh church in the settlement in Patagonia, and the first chaplain there, Hugh Davies, was one of his parishioners at S. Ann's. Thomas wrote a number of works in Welsh and English, including a collection of
THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect adopted the hyphen in his name later in his life. His father was treasurer of the Welsh Nationalist Party (Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru) and his mother was national treasurer of the Welsh Pacifists. Ambrose Bebb and George M. Ll. Davies were regular visitors to the family home in Liverpool, and Dewi-Prys joined the Welsh Nationalist Party under the influence of Ambrose Bebb when he was fifteen years old
THOMAS, EBENEZER (Eben Fardd; 1802 - 1863), schoolmaster and poet , when he won the prize for his ode, 'Dinystr Jerusalem.' In 1825 he went to keep school at Llanarmon, moving, in 1827, to Clynnog. In 1830 he married Mary Williams, Caerpwsan, Clynnog, and there were four children of the marriage - three daughters and one son. His wife used to bake bread and keep shop, and he himself bound books, in order to augment his earnings as a schoolmaster, and he later became
THOMAS, EDWARD (Cochfarf; 1853 - 1912), carpenter, politician and Mayor of Cardiff . He worked at his craft on the (old) Cardiff town hall in S. Mary Street, a building which he was to enter frequently afterwards as an elected representative of Cardiff ratepayers. He served as one of the secretaries of the national eisteddfod held at Cardiff in 1879. In 1880 Cochfarf joined the staff of the Cardiff Coffee Tavern Company. When, however, that company decided to open its houses on

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