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THOMAS, LEWIS (1568 - 1619), cleric and author He is also known as Lewis Evans, alias Thomas, under which name he matriculated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 11 December 1584, at the age of 16. He graduated B.A. from Brasenose College, 15 February 1586/7. He was apparently a native of Radnorshire, but in the entry under the Thomas form of his name Foster (Alumni Oxonienses), quoting the Rawlinson manuscript, says that 'he was beneficed to his
THOMAS, LEWIS (1832 - 1913) Queensland, pioneer of coal-mining in 1894 he entered Parliament as member for Bundamba and, after being re-elected in 1896, retired from the seat in 1899. In 1902 he was called to the Legislative Council. The community which he helped to establish at Blackstone became the leading centre of Welsh life and culture in Queensland. He died 16 February 1913, and was buried in Ipswich cemetery. He endowed a Lewis Thomas Scholarship
THOMAS, LEWIS (bu farw March 1704), one of the chief leaders of the Particular Baptists after the migration of John Miles to America; a native of Margam. He was baptized at Ilston in November 1650, and figured prominently in the complicated circuit arrangements made by Miles in 1657. Later he made his home at the Mŵr by Newton Nottage, and in 1669 he is reported as preaching illegally in the company of Richard Cradock the Independent at Cradock ' house. Under the Declaration of 1672
THOMAS, LEWIS (fl. first half of the 20th century) south Wales, pioneer of the art of Cerdd Dant Born at Pontyberem, Gwendraeth Valley, Carmarthenshire, 30 May 1877, the eldest of nine sons of William Thomas, a collier, and his wife, Jane. Lewis worked in the mines for a short period before being apprenticed and gaining his trade as a local shoemaker. In 1905 he married Mary Emiah Jones, a teacher at Pontyberem, but originally from Llan-non, Llanelli. They had a son and two daughters. His
THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN (1883 - 1970), missionary in India with the London Missionary Society Born 2 February 1883 at Llangefni, Anglesey, son of Cefni and Mary (née Williams) Thomas. The family moved to Rhiwbryfdir, Blaenau Ffestiniog, when he was five. After a period as a pupil-teacher and working on the railway, he moved to Corwen and then Birkenhead. There he came under the influence of the 1904-05 religious revival and began preaching; he had wished to become a missionary since he
THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD VAUGHAN- - gweler VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist location is significant in that it was here, apparently, that she began to write (but see the story ' Lol ' in Storïau hen ferch). She had seen some pigs in a garden and began writing a children's story about them; this may have been the origin of stories, e.g. ' Siw a'r moch bach ' in Ann a Defi John. See also the description of the cottage in Diwrnod yw ein bywyd. Louie Myfanwy Thomas wrote under the
THOMAS, LUCY (1781 - 1847), pioneer of the Welsh coal industry - gweler LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS
THOMAS, MANSEL TREHARNE (1909 - 1986), composer, conductor, BBC Wales Head of Music Mansel Thomas was born in Llewelyn Street, Pontygwaith, near Tylorstown in the Rhondda Fach, Glamorgan, 12 June 1909, the son of Theophilus and Edith Treharne Thomas. He had an older brother, Wilfred, who died in infancy, and a younger sister, Elizabeth. His father, a keen amateur musician and the precentor at Hermon Welsh Baptist Chapel, Pontygwaith, was well-known locally as a choral conductor
THOMAS, MARGARET (1779 - ?), hymnwriter daughter of William Llwyd of Vaenol, near Bangor, Caernarfonshire. As a young woman she married one Edmund Williams; her second marriage (c. 1817) was with Edward Thomas of Tal-y-bont Uchaf, Llanllechid, an elder at Gatws church (Calvinistic Methodist), near Bangor. Her hymns are found written on the blank pages of an old edition of the Bible, T. Charles's Geiriadur, and an old copy of the Book
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA), (1883 - 1958), author, editor and chairperson of companies Born 12 June 1883 in Bayswater, London, the only child of David Alfred Thomas and his wife Sybil Margaret, daughter of George Augustus Haig, Pen Ithon, Radnorshire. She was taught initially by private governess at home. Then she was sent to Notting Hill secondary school, where she started a printed magazine, The Shooting Star, to which her relations contributed. From there she went to St
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman Margaret Haig Thomas was born on 12 June 1883 in Bayswater, London, the only child of the wealthy industrialist and Liberal politician, David Alfred Thomas (later Lord Rhondda), from Ysgubor-wen near Aberdare, and his wife Sybil Margaret (née Haig, 1857-1941) descended from an ancient Scots Border family, with parents living at Pen Ithon Hall, Radnorshire. The Thomases spent long holidays there

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