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THOMAS, HUGH HAMSHAW (1885 - 1962), palaeobotanist interpretation, 1939-43. He published his first papers on fossil plants in 1908 and continued his studies on the Jurassic flora of Yorkshire and plant morphology, much of it based on his own field collections rather than on museum collections. His most important and seminal paper, on the Caytoniales, appeared in 1925. This was a major contribution to one of the problems of fossil botany, the origin of
THOMAS, HUGH OWEN (1834 - 1891), orthopaedic surgeon because his works were not well produced, and he chose an obscure publisher. Furthermore, he worked in isolation and could not be induced to disclose his teaching at scientific meetings. His work went unrecognised during his lifetime but afterwards his nephew, Sir Robert Jones, whom he trained, succeeded in bringing his teaching and the use of his splints before the profession. During the first world
THOMAS, IFOR OWEN (1892 - 1956), operatic tenor, photographer and artist scholarship in 1914 to the Royal College of Music out of a field of 400. He left London in 1917 to study with Jean de Reszke in Paris and Benjamino Gigli in Milan. The major concert halls of Britain had already welcomed the 'Welsh tenor' before he opened in La Scala Milan in 1925, moving to Monte Carlo and Nice before becoming chief tenor in the Paris Opera in 1927. In that year he was admitted as an
THOMAS, ISAAC (1911 - 2004), minister (Independents) and college lecturer became the prime authority on the history of the translation of the Scriptures into Welsh. His volume, Y Testament Newydd Cymraeg 1551-1620, appeared in 1976, which earned him the DD degree of the University of Wales, and then he completed his studies in the field by the year of the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of Bishop William Morgan's translation in 1988, Yr Hen Destament Cymraeg
THOMAS, SIR JAMES WILLIAM TUDOR (1893 - 1976), ophthalmic surgeon Hospital, Cardiff (to be renamed the Cardiff Royal Infirmary in 1923), where he combined clinical duties with pioneering research in the field of corneal transplantation. Despite the sometimes difficult relations between the academics in the Welsh National School of Medicine and the clinicians at the Infirmary during the 1920s, the School's Department of Physiology provided laboratory facilities
THOMAS, JOHN (1691 - 1766), bishop of Salisbury There is a short but interesting account of his career in the D.N.B.; he was born 23 June 1691, and died 19 July 1766. His father was a brewer's drayman, but Robert Williams (Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen) states - without giving the source of his information - that the bishop was born at Dolgelley.
THOMAS, JOHN (1838 - 1905), photographer (died 1895); they had four children: Jane Claudia, afterwards Mrs. Hugh Lloyd (1863 - 1934), William Thelwall, Robert Arthur (1866 - 1932), and Albert Ivor (1870 - 1911, a medical man). He died 14 October 1905, and was buried in Anfield cemetery, Liverpool.
THOMAS, JOHN (Eifionydd; 1848 - 1922), founder and editor of Y Geninen Born 6 August 1848 in a cottage near Clenennau in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire. He lost his father when he was very young, received no formal schooling, and at 9 years of age, before he had learnt to read script, he was apprenticed in the printing office of Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion), Tremadoc, where the literary periodical known as Y Brython was being printed and published. He
THOMAS, JOHN WILLIAM (Arfonwyson; 1805 - 1840), mathematician three months studied at the school kept by Robert Roberts, the almanac-maker (1776-1836), at Holyhead. Then, he himself opened a school at Tre-garth and began work on his book, Elfennau Rhifyddiaeth. At the age of 21 he married, and moved to Bangor; the story goes that he was again engaged for a time in selling books in Anglesey; however, J. H. Cotton obtained for him the mastership of a school at
THOMAS, JOSEPH MORGAN (1868 - 1955), minister (U) and Free Catholic, councillor and public figure his admirers and followers, including some ministers, and his high-church leanings became evident in some of the adornments of some Unitarian chapels (e.g. at Bromwich and Oldbury), but the new movement languished in its infancy, and in 1932 Lloyd Thomas retired from the ministry. Although his dream of unifying the denominations did not materialise, he deserves to be called a pioneer in the field
THOMAS, JOSHUA (1719 - 1797), Baptist minister and historian he published a new translation of the Confession of Faith, issued by the London Assembly of 1689; in 1794 he translated a book by Robert Hall on the doctrine of the Trinity; before 1795 he published sharply-worded Remarks on the work of an author who had belittled the cause and mission of the Baptists. And he left behind at Leominster, in manuscript, two volumes on the story of that church and the
THOMAS, LEWIS (1832 - 1913) Queensland, pioneer of coal-mining Born 1832, at Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire. He married Ann Morris at Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn. Emigrating at the age of 27 he worked his way through Victoria to Queensland. In 1866 he cut the first ton of coal from the Bundamba coal-field and opened up the well-known Aberdare colliery, where he worked till 1890, when its output reached between 50,000 and 60,000 tons per annum. Retiring from mining

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