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teulu THELWALL Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, Gwynedd) by queen Elizabeth. Furthermore he could compose an englyn, as is proved by the poetic dispute between him and Rhys Gruffydd and William Mostyn (NLW MS 1553A (761)). He married (1) Alis, daughter of Robert Salusbury of Rug, (2) Jane, daughter of John Massey of Broxon in Cheshire, and (3) Margaret, daughter of Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn. He died 15 April 1586, aged 60, and was buried at
THODAY, DAVID (1883 - 1964), botanist, university professor textbook for senior students (1915 : 5 editions) and many important articles in his field, including a series on succulent plants, Kleinia articulata, particularly on their acidic metabolism. His presidential lecture to the British Association, Section K, in 1939, on ' The interpretation of plant structures ' was seminal. He was assisted in much of his work by his wife whom he married 15 June 1910, and
THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner member of the Society was David Thoday (1883-1964), also a botanist, whom Gladys married at Gresford Church in 1910. They had four sons, David Robert Gabriel Thoday, known as Robin (1911-1983); Peter Murray Thoday (1913-1999); John Marion Thoday (1916-2008), Balfour Professor of Genetics at Cambridge University 1959-1983, and Michael George Thoday (1920-1989). Before and after her marriage she was a
teulu THOMAS Coed Helen (or Alun), Aber, his tenure of the estate (P.R.O., C7/339/71); he died without issue in 1676. The estate then passed to JOHN THOMAS 'next in kin expectant upon the death of the said Gruffydd Thomas, the tenant for life' (ibid.). He would seem to have been a first cousin, the eldest son of Robert Thomas, Gruffydd's uncle. He married Gruffydd's widow, Jane, c. 1678. There is evidence which indicates that he lived at
teulu THOMAS Wenvoe, Prince of Wales, the flagship of Sir Robert Calder, and was present in the action of 22 July 1805. On 19 September of the same year he was appointed acting-lieutenant of the Spartiate, and was present at the battle of Trafalgar. His commission was confirmed on 14 February 1806. From then until 1814 he continued in the Spartiate and other ships in the Mediterranean, and finally commanded the San Juan
THOMAS, DAVID (1880 - 1967), educationalist, author and pioneer of the Labour Party in north Wales , llythyrau a sgyrsiau (1954), a biography of Silyn (Robert Silyn Roberts) 1871-1930 (1956), and Ann Griffiths a'i theulu (1963); also ' Glendid iaith ', a weekly column on grammar in Y Faner (c. 1957-62). As a tribute to him he was presented with the volume, Ben Bowen Thomas (ed.), Lleufer y werin; cyfrol deyrnged i David Thomas, M.A. (1965), and his autobiography was published posthumously, Diolch am gael
THOMAS, DAVID (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759 - 1822), man of letters and poet manuscripts and to write them up in a notebook - 'Golwg ar Parnassus a Helicon.' After leaving school he became a weaver and used to go to Caernarvon to visit Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn (Robert Hughes, 1744 - 1785), who had retired there after losing his health in London. It was Robin who told him about the meetings of the bards in the London taverns, and this inspired Dafydd Ddu to write a poem (in the metre
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), poet and prose writer stories). The sixteen-year-old schoolboy sent some poems to Robert Graves, who blandly deemed them 'unexceptionable'. But their publication in London periodicals led quickly to his first volume 18 Poems in December 1934. William Empson recalled that 'What hit the town of London was the child Dylan publishing [in October 1933] “The force that through the green fuse” as a prize poem in the Sunday Referee
THOMAS, EBENEZER (Eben Fardd; 1802 - 1863), schoolmaster and poet also learnt his father's craft. On the death of his brother William in 1822, Eben took over the school kept by him at Llangybi, and in the same year he resigned from church membership. His interest in poetry had become evident before he was 15 years of age, and he had come to know Robert ap Gwilym Ddu and Dewi Wyn. His first bardic achievement was at the Powis eisteddfod held at Welshpool in 1824
THOMAS, EVAN ROBERT (1891 - 1964), joiner and leader of the Welsh in Australia Born 8 January 1891 at Yspyty Ifan, Denbighshire, son of Robert E. Thomas and Jane his wife, but the family moved to Trefriw, Caernarfonshire, and he was educated in Llanrwst county school. He emigrated to Australia c. 1908. He was a joiner and a noted craftsman and many of his fine wooden panels are in the public buildings of Melbourne. He knew the problems facing an immigrant and made a
THOMAS, HUGH (1673 - 1720), herald and antiquary the work of Hugh Thomas and William Lewes. Hugh Thomas lived in Bloomsbury. He died 22 September 1720, and was buried in S. Martin-in-the-fields; his will is dated 14 September 1720 (Edward Owen, op. cit., ii, 491) and was proved 6 October (Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, xv, 60). (The dates 1715 and 1721 given in various editions of Theophilus Jones and in

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