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THOMAS, DAVID (Dewi Hefin; 1828 - 1909), poet Awen, 1866; Blodau Hefin, 1883. He died 9 March 1909.
THOMAS, DAVID (bu farw 1780?), minister (Congl.) Annibynnol Cymru - in Thomas's presence; however, in the only church book extant for Llanedi (at Somerset House; commencing with 1745), Davies is called 'minister', and it was he who had custody of the meetinghouse lease. Under 28 March 1778 the church book records that 'the major part of the congregation' undertook to pay £5 annually for life to the Rev. David Thomas, our old Pastor ', but accompanying
THOMAS, DAVID ALFRED (first viscount RHONDDA), (1856 - 1918), businessman and politician, Liberal Member of Parliament (1800 - 1879), was educated at Cowbridge, became a shopkeeper at Merthyr Tydfil, but afterwards (c. 1842) turned to prospecting for coal. He married, as his second wife, Rachel, daughter of Morgan Joseph, a mining engineer of Merthyr Tydfil, and by her had seventeen children, of whom D. A. Thomas was the fifteenth, born 26 March 1856 at Ysgubor-wen Aberdare, where Samuel Thomas and his brother-in-law
THOMAS, DAVID VAUGHAN (1873 - 1934), musician Born 15 March 1873 at Ystalyfera, Glamorganshire, son of Jenkin Thomas. He took the name Vaughan in 1911 when he became a member of the Gorsedd of Bards in Carmarthen eisteddfod. He attended Watcyn Wyn's school in Ammanford, and from 1873 to 1883 the family lived in Ystalyfera, Llantrisant, Maesteg, Llangennech and Dowlais. The family moved to Pontardulais, and Vaughan Thomas received his early
THOMAS, DAVID WALTER (1829 - 1905), cleric college scholarship (he also held a Powis exhibition) he received priest's orders from bishop Bethell of Bangor in 1853. In that year he was curate of Deneio (Pwllheli) and Llannor, and chaplain at Tremadoc, 1854-5. On 13 August 1855, he became perpetual curate of Penmachno and, on 14 March 1860, vicar of S. Ann, Mynydd Llandygài, near Bangor. He remained there for thirty-four years. After a year as
THOMAS, EDWARD (Cochfarf; 1853 - 1912), carpenter, politician and Mayor of Cardiff Born 9 March 1853 in the farmhouse of Nantywith, Betws, near Maes-teg, Glamorganshire, the son of Llewellyn Thomas and his wife (the latter a member of the Bryncethin-fawr family). He was educated at a school in Betws. His father died when the boy was about 10 years of age and the family moved to Melin Ifan Ddu. In 1876 he went to Hengoed to work as a carpenter, going to Cardiff two years later
THOMAS, EVAN CAMBRIA (1867 - 1930), doctor and public health pioneer Evan Cambria Thomas was born at Tŷ Coch, Llanarth, Cardiganshire, on 28 March 1867, the last of six children of Captain Evan Thomas (1825-1900), a seaman in the merchant service, and his wife Emma Jones (1824-1871), innkeeper of the Red Lion, Llanarth. He attended Llanarth School from 1872 under the tuition of John Edward Rees (1854-1912), a Certified School Master. In 1883 he was accepted to
THOMAS, EZEKIEL (1818 - 1893), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author of the authorship of the epistle to the Hebrews. He died 12 March 1893 and was buried in Cwm chapel burial ground.
THOMAS, FRANCIS (Crythwr Dall o Geredigion; 1726 - 1796) , and two of his poems - ' Cynghor i Fab Ieuanc ' and ' Hanes Cyflwr Dyn yn mhob rhan o'i oes ' - appeared in John Howell's (Ioan Howell) Blodau Dyfed, 1824. He died at Llanwenog, 4 March 1796.
THOMAS, FREDERICK HALL (Freddie Welsh; 1886 - 1927), light-weight boxing champion of the World Born 5 March 1886 at Pontypridd, son of John Thomas of Pontypridd and Elizabeth Thomas (née Hall). He was educated at Long Ashton, Bristol, and from an early age showed an unusual inclination for athletics. During his school career he carried off several prizes for boxing, wrestling, running, and jumping. His first noteworthy success in later life was when, at the age of 20, he knocked out Hock
THOMAS, IFOR (1877 - 1918), geologist and inspector of schools Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Devonischen Fauna Argentiniens (1905). His health was always indifferent; he returned to his old home in Glanaman in the spring of 1918, where he died, unmarried, on 30 March in the same year. He was buried in the graveyard of Bethesda Baptist church, Glanaman.
THOMAS, JOHN (1730 - 1804?), Congregational minister, and hymnist Born in 1730 in the parish of Myddfai, Carmarthenshire (christened 25 March). He came from a thriftless family but was nurtured by relatives. He received short periods of schooling in the neighbourhood of his home and learnt to read Welsh. He worked on farms, reading the Bible, Cannwyll y Cymry, and Taith y Pererin in his leisure hours. He heard Howel Harris preach in the house of Sieffre Dafydd

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