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teulu TALBOT Margam Abbey, Penrice Castle, 1830 to succeed his step-father, Sir Christopher Cole (died 1836), his mother's second husband (for some of Cole's Glamorgan election experiences see NLW MSS 6575-6576E), he was re-elected at every subsequent poll - 1831, 1832, 1835, 1837, 1841, 1847, 1852, 1857, 1859, 1865, 1868, 1874, 1880; in the election of 1885 he was chosen to represent the new constituency of Mid-Glamorgan, being reelected in
TALBOT, CHARLES (1st baron Talbot of Hensol), (1685 - 1737), lord chancellor Sir CHARLES CHETWYND TALBOT, 2nd earl Talbot of Hensol, an account of whose career is given in D.N.B.
TELFORD, THOMAS (1757 - 1834), civil engineer He started his working life as apprentice to a stonemason; born 9 August 1757 at Westerkirk, a remote village in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the son of a shepherd. The career of Telford is described in the D.N.B. and many other works, a modern work being (Sir) Alexander Gibb, The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering (London, 1935); this article will be concerned only with Telford's work
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
THELWALL, JOHN (1764 - 1834), reformer, lecturer and poet son of Joseph Thelwall (1731 - 1772), silk merchant of London, descended from a branch of the Thelwall family of Plas y Ward which settled in Crosby, Lancashire. He was born at Chandos Street, Covent Garden, 27 July 1764. He published Poems upon various subjects (London, 1787), and became editor of Biographical and Imperial Magazine. He came under the spell of the French Revolution, and joined
THICKENS, JOHN (1865 - 1952), minister (Presb.), historian and author Born 9 March 1865 at Abernantcwta, Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, son of David and Sarah Thickens. His father died when he was young, and his mother moved with the family to Pentre, Rhondda Valley. There, in Nazareth chapel, he began to preach, and he trained for the ministry at Trefeca College. He was ordained in 1894, and that year he married Cecilia Evans of Dowlais (sister of Sir David W. Evans
THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner on one of her visits to Geneva delivered a petition to the British Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, demanding that the export of arms and war materials to Japan should immediately be prohibited. At Grenoble she presented the report of the British section of the Seventh Congress of the WILPF and in 1937 she travelled to Czechoslovakia where she addressed the Ninth World Congress of the WILPF as a
teulu THOMAS Coed Helen (or Alun), Aber, RICE THOMAS (died 1577) the founder of this family's fortune in Caernarvonshire, was a son of Sir WILLIAM THOMAS, Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1541-2. Rice married Jane, daughter of Sir John Puleston of Caernarvon and widow of Edward Gruffydd of Penrhyn, who had died at Dublin in 1540. He was appointed by Roger Williams, the surveyor of crown lands in North Wales, to
teulu THOMAS Wenvoe, Wenvoe, who had married Jane, eldest daughter of Sir John Stradling, bt., of St Donat's, Glamorganshire. This Elizabeth, who had Wenvoe and Rhiwperra, was the widow of Edmund Ludlow, regicide; after his death she married JOHN THOMAS, probably a cousin (Clark, op. cit.). Born in 1664, John Thomas was created a baronet 4 December 1694, with remainders to his brothers, Edmund and William. He died 17
THOMAS, ALBAN (bu farw 1740?), cleric, poet, and translator 145, NLW MS 5A and NLW MS 19B, and in (Cardiff) Tonn MS. 16 in the Cardiff Public Library. His son, ALBAN THOMAS (1686 - 1771), physician Medicine in London He appears to have practised under the auspices of Sir Hans Sloane. He matriculated in the University of Oxford as from Jesus College. He was librarian of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, c. 1708; whilst in 1713 he was assistant-secretary of the
THOMAS, BENJAMIN BOWEN (1899 - 1977), adult educator and civil servant founder of Coleg Harlech. In a Memorial Address at Bethel, Aberystwyth, on 2 November 1977, Sir Goronwy Daniel recalled: 'He never forced his own appreciation of the truth on others but he listened to all and understood them, and then he used his great gifts to secure that agreement which permitted the greatest possible progress to be made … It is not surprising that after seeing his contribution as
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate this work by Rees Jenkin Jones of Aberdare, who had contributed to earlier volumes. He, in turn, invited (Sir) John Edward Lloyd, in August 1892, to undertake some of the biographies allocated to him. In all, Thomas contributed 27 biographies. In the meantime he had, in 1892, been appointed assistant commissioner to the royal commission on labour, and conducted enquiries in Wales which are embodied

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