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THOMAS, WILLIAM DAVIES (1889 - 1954), Professor of English Born 5 August 1889, son of William and Hannah Thomas, Abermule, Montgomeryshire, where his father was a blacksmith and postmaster. He was educated at Newtown County School and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he obtained a first-class honours degree in English in 1910. He was a valuable player in the college and town football teams. After a year as student assistant at
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
THOMAS, WILLIAM JENKYN (1870 - 1959), schoolmaster and author Born 5 July 1870, the son of John Thomas, Bryncocyn, Llangywer, Merionethshire, and his wife Catherine who died when William was a child, and the family moved to Plas Madog, Llanuwchllyn. He went to Friars School, Bangor, before matriculating as a sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1888; he had a scholarship in 1890 and graduated B.A. (class I part I in the classical tripos), and M.A. in
THOMAS, WILLIAM MEREDITH (1819 - 1877), sculptor - gweler THOMAS, JOHN EVAN
THOMAS, WILLIAM PHILLIP (Gwilym Rhondda; 1861 - 1954), colliery official
THOMAS, WILLIAM THELWALL (1865 - 1927), surgeon
THOMAS, WILLIAM THEOPHILUS (Gwilym Gwenffrwd; 1824 - 1899), Congregational minister and poet
TOMOS GLYN COTHI - gweler EVANS, THOMAS
TOY, HUMFREY (bu farw 1575), merchant The first New Testament in Welsh (1567 - William Salesbury), and the first Welsh translation of the Book of Common Prayer (also 1567 - bishop Richard Davies) were printed in London by Henry Denham ' at the costes and charges of Humfrey Toy.' It has been suggested that the latter was Humfrey Toy of Carmarthen and not his nephew, also Humfrey Toy, who was a bookseller in London and became under
TREGONING, WILLIAM EDWARD CECIL (1871 - 1957), industrialist
teulu TREVOR Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, Hawarden (12 December 1646) was nullified by the conveyance made by the 8th earl, after his father's execution, to John Glynne, and the post-Restoration judical verdict that Hope was inalienable. He took no part in the Restoration, but was granted a royal pardon on 24 July 1660. He lived mainly in London, allowing the deprived Puritan minister of Denbigh, William Jones (died 1679), to take refuge in Plas
teulu TREVOR Brynkynallt, (December 1688), remaining true to James even after his first flight. He therefore lost his offices at the Revolution, but was again returned to parliament for an English pocket borough and resumed his speakership (May 1690). Winning the favour of William III by his success in 'managing' the Tories, he was restored to the privy council (1 January 1691), made first commissioner of the Great Seal during the

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1609 - 1620 of 1867 for "William Glyn"