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teulu THOMAS Wenvoe, Wenvoe, who had married Jane, eldest daughter of Sir John Stradling, bt., of St Donat's, Glamorganshire. This Elizabeth, who had Wenvoe and Rhiwperra, was the widow of Edmund Ludlow, regicide; after his death she married JOHN THOMAS, probably a cousin (Clark, op. cit.). Born in 1664, John Thomas was created a baronet 4 December 1694, with remainders to his brothers, Edmund and William. He died 17
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, 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
THOMAS, DAVID (bu farw 1735), poet Edward Evan says that he was a native of Cardiganshire, and that he came to Glamorgan in 1727 when, according to Iolo Morganwg, he was between 12 and 15 years of age. He settled in Betws Tir Iarll, where he became a member of Rees Price of Tyn-ton's congregation. About 1730 he began to write poetry under the guidance of John Bradford, and in 1734 Bradford mentions him as one of the ' grammarians
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 ALFRED (first viscount RHONDDA), (1856 - 1918), businessman and politician, Liberal Member of Parliament He was the grandson of a JOHN THOMAS, of Magor, Monmouth; born in 1770, who migrated c. 1790 to Merthyr Tydfil and became haulage-contractor to the Crawshays; he married into a yeoman family of Merthyr Vale, and had four children. Of these, the youngest, DAVID THOMAS (1811-1875), became a prominent Congregational minister at Clifton (Memoir, by his son Arnold Thomas). The eldest, SAMUEL THOMAS
THOMAS, DAVID EMLYN (1892 - 1954), politician and trade unionist qualify as an engineer. In 1906, at 13 years of age, he began working as clerk at the Oakwood and Garth collieries, he moved to a colliery at Llantrisant and then to the Caerau colliery, Maesteg. Thomas became a full-time official of the South Wales Miners' Federation in 1919 and served as secretary to Vernon Hartshorn and Ted Williams (see Williams, Sir Edward John below). In the same year he joined
THOMAS, DAVID JOHN (Afan; 1881 - 1928), musician
THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect Dewi-Prys Thomas was born on 5 August 1916 in the Toxteth Park district of Liverpool, the eldest child of Adolphus Dan Thomas (1889-1974), a banking union official, and his wife Elysabeth (Lys) Watkin Thomas (née Jones, 1888-1953). His sister Rhiannon ('Nannon') Prys Thomas was born in 1919. The historian Robert John Pryse ('Gweirydd ap Rhys', 1807-1889) was his great grandfather. Dewi-Prys
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 Dylan Thomas was born at 5, Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea, on 27 October 1914. He was the son of David John Thomas (1876-1952) and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams, 1882-1958), who came from rural Welsh-speaking families in north and south west Carmarthenshire respectively. The parents spoke Welsh to each other, but the father (a First Class Honours English graduate of the University College
THOMAS, EDWARD (Cochfarf; 1853 - 1912), carpenter, politician and Mayor of Cardiff Free Library Committee; he was also the chairman of the sub-committee of the boro. council which arranged for the boro. records to be examined and described by John Hobson Mathews; he frequently contributed to the local press and to periodicals. He was a Baptist and a staunch Liberal; he worked for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales. He was a member of the Society for the

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