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THOMAS, THOMAS (1776 - 1847), cleric and historian death, 28 February 1847 (buried at Blaenporth 4 March). He was awarded the S. Davids prize for an essay on the study of the Hebrew language in 1810, and in 1822 he published Memoirs of Owen Glendower … with a sketch of the History of the Ancient Britons from the Conquest of Wales by Edward the First, to the present time. He helped Nicholas Carlisle and Samuel Lewis with their topographical
THOMAS, WILLIAM (fl. c . 1685? - c . 1740?), secretary to Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford , 50). It is Hearne who suggests that William Thomas was at first servant to Harley, but it is certain that he later became the earl's secretary; the letters (Duke of Portland manuscripts) written by Thomas to Edward Harley, son of the earl (and afterwards 2nd earl), in 1708 and 1709 when the young man was at Christ Church, Oxford, and giving him parliamentary and other news from London were not
THOMAS, WILLIAM (bu farw 1554), Italian scholar and clerk of the Privy Council to king Edward VI Rvles of the Italian Grammer, with a Dictionarie for the better vnderstandynge of Boccace, Petrarcha, and Dante was published in 1550, with other eds. in 1560?, 1562, 1567. He was made Clerk of the Privy Council to Edward VI in 1550, given a prebend in S. Paul's, London, and, among other grants and rewards, the toll of Presteign, Builth, and 'Elvael,' together with the parsonage of Presteign and the
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet ); Caniadau gan Islwyn (Wrexham, undated); Pregethau y Parch. William Thomas (Islwyn). Gan y Parch. Edward Matthews, 1896; Awdl ar y Nefoedd, 1878?; Cymru, gan Islwyn (Cyfres Blodau'r Grug, undated); Islwyn, pigion o'i waith, 1897; Islwyn (Llyfrau Urdd y Delyn, 1897); Gwaith Barddonol Islwyn (Owen M. Edwards), 1897; Gwaith Islwyn (Cyfres y Fil, 1903); Perlau Awen Islwyn, gan J. M. Edwards, 1909; Islwyn's
THOMAS, WILLIAM THELWALL (1865 - 1927), surgeon throughout his life; he spoke Welsh fluently, and in 1925 he was one of the presidents of the Royal National Eisteddfod at Pwllheli. Until the day of his death he was a consultant to the Welsh C.M. Foreign Missions, and he was also consulting surgeon to the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association. After receiving his early education at Liverpool Institute, he entered upon his medical course as
TOMLEY, JOHN EDWARD (1874 - 1951), solicitor
TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK (1855 - 1929), historian Members of Owens College, 1902, 76-136), ' Flintshire, its History and Records ' (Flintshire Historical Society Proceedings, i, 1-38), The Captivity and Death of Edward of Caernarvon, 1920, the treatment of the old boroughs of Wales in his Mediaeval Town Planning, 1917, and the Welsh sections of his important book The Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History, 1914. Tout was born in London, 28
TREGONING, WILLIAM EDWARD CECIL (1871 - 1957), industrialist
teulu TREVOR Brynkynallt, known for persistent feuds with its neighbours, the Kyffin s, and later the Myddelton 's, the latter lasting till the early 18th century (Wynn, The history of the Gwydir family, 1927 ed., 41-5; Edwards, Star Chamber Proceedings, 68; Myddelton, Chirk Castle Accts., 1605-66, 14 and n.; Cust, Chronicles of Erthig, i, 51, 57). The founder of the family fortunes was Sir EDWARD TREVOR (died 1642) Military
TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (bu farw c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary She was in charge of the upbringing of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and also of Queen Mary when she lived with the younger Tudor children. Therefore she was the Lady Mistress for Elizabeth and Edward, the title accorded to the lady who controlled the household. Her funeral elegy, composed by Lewys Morgannwg, includes the lines: Arglwyddes breninesau,Gofrner oedd ban oedd yn iau.Hi a wyddiad yn
TUDOR, JASPER (c. 1431 - 1495), earl of Pembroke to Edward IV, on the first two occasions making his escape by way of the coast near Harlech where he appears to have had friends among the local gentry. Finally, in the invasion of 1470, when he again landed in Wales, he failed to reach Tewkesbury in time to witness the second great defeat of the Lancastrians. Again he fled to Chepstow, where he appears to have come into fresh contact with his
TUDUR PENLLYN (c. 1420 - c. 1485-90), bard nobility in North and South Wales. His principal patrons were Gruffydd Fychan of Gors-y-gedol (he wrote a cywydd of praise to this warrior some time between 1461 and 1468 when, with Dafydd ap Ieuan ab Einion, he was defending Harlech castle against Edward IV's adherents), Rheinallt ap Gruffydd of Mold (he wrote an awdl on the vengeance taken by this nobleman on the men of Chester when Robert Byrne, their

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