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THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953) Born 27 October 1914 in Swansea, son of David John Thomas and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams) who themselves came from rural, Welsh -speaking families in Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire. The father, a nephew of William Thomas ' Gwilym Marles ', was from 1899 to 1936 English master at Swansea grammar school, which Dylan Thomas attended from 1925 to 1931. That was his only period of
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer have been a naturally bilingual home, produced a creative tension in the poet. Explaining later to an English poet friend what he called his 'cut-glass' accent, Thomas added revealingly '…and I can't speak Welsh either!' After all, his father was the nephew of William Thomas, the renowned radical preacher-poet Gwilym Marles (hence Dylan's middle name Marlais and that of his sister, Nancy Marles). A
THOMAS, EBENEZER (Eben Fardd; 1802 - 1863), schoolmaster and poet also learnt his father's craft. On the death of his brother William in 1822, Eben took over the school kept by him at Llangybi, and in the same year he resigned from church membership. His interest in poetry had become evident before he was 15 years of age, and he had come to know Robert ap Gwilym Ddu and Dewi Wyn. His first bardic achievement was at the Powis eisteddfod held at Welshpool in 1824
THOMAS, EDWARD WILLIAM (1814 - 1892), musician
THOMAS, EVAN (Ieuan Fardd Ddu; 1733 - 1814), printer and translator ... ynghyd a'i Farwnad, 1768. He also published an Almanack under his own name. Unfortunately he gave way to drink and became a man of loose character. He gave up his occupation as a printer and set up as an astrologer, conjurer, and fortune teller. He finally found refuge in the 'House of Industry' at Shrewsbury. His wife was Ellen Parry, sister of William Parry of Cae Ceirch, Dolgellau, Warden of Ruthin
THOMAS, EVAN (bu farw 1781) Cwmhwylfod, Sarnau, transcriber and owner of manuscripts It was a manuscript transcribed by him (now NLW MS 686B) that E. Stanton Roberts edited and published under the title Llysieulyfr Meddyginiaethol a briodolir i William Salesbury (Liverpool, 1916). Evan Thomas also owned Cwrtmawr MS 1D, NLW MS 642B and (a fact not then known to E. Stanton Roberts) NLW MS 4581B. The latter is a copy made by Roger Morris, Coed y Talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, of
THOMAS, EVAN (c. 1710 - c. 1770), poet and boot-maker Awen, was published in 1842 under the editorship of William Hughes Griffiths of Llandysiliogogo with an introduction by Brutus. For the most part he writes in the 'free' metres and the form of his poetry is clearly influenced by the ballad; the topics of the day provide him with his subjects. Only five of his englynion have survived and these show that he had not mastered the art of writing in the
THOMAS, HUGH (1673 - 1720), herald and antiquary son of William Thomas, merchant, of London, by Petronilla his wife, daughter of William Brand of Lincoln's Inn. He was born 30 June 1673 in Fetter Lane, and christened 1 July in S. Dunstans-in-the-West, and was descended from an old family (Roman Catholic, it is said) of Llanfrynach, near Brecon, but his grandfather, Roger Thomas, had sold the ancestral home. His ancestor, Thomas ap John (died
THOMAS, HUGH EVAN (Huwco Meirion; 1830 - 1889), Independent minister Born 13 June 1830 at Bala; the Rev. William Thomas of Beaumaris and the Rev. John Thomas (Calvinistic Methodist) of Bala, were his brothers. At the age of 13 he went to work in a shop at Brynmawr, Brecknock, where he became a member of Rehoboth chapel. There he began to preach and in 1850 he went to Bala Independent College, where he became friendly with John Peter (Ioan Pedr). He received a call
THOMAS, HUGH HAMSHAW (1885 - 1962), palaeobotanist Born 29 May 1885, in Wrexham, Denbighshire, 2nd son and 3rd child of William Hamshaw Thomas (men's outfitter) and his wife Elizabeth Lloyd. He was educated at Grove Park grammar school, Wrexham and went to Downing College, Cambridge, in 1904. Even at school he had acquired a serious interest in botany and fossil plants and he gained 1st class in pt. 1 of the Natural History tripos in 1906. He
THOMAS, IORWERTH RHYS (1895 - 1966), politician Born 22 January 1895, the son of David William Thomas, Cwm-parc, Glamorganshire. He was educated at a local elementary school, and in 1908, at 13 years of age, he began working at the Dare colliery, Cwm-parc. He attended evening classes in economics and history in order to improve his education, and in 1918 he joined the Labour Party. In 1922 he was promoted to the position of checkweighman at
THOMAS, ISAAC (1911 - 2004), minister (Independents) and college lecturer became the prime authority on the history of the translation of the Scriptures into Welsh. His volume, Y Testament Newydd Cymraeg 1551-1620, appeared in 1976, which earned him the DD degree of the University of Wales, and then he completed his studies in the field by the year of the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of Bishop William Morgan's translation in 1988, Yr Hen Destament Cymraeg

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