Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SQUIRES, DOROTHY (1915 - 1998), popular singer the express consent of the High Court. By this time she had been declared bankrupt. Dorothy Squires was a show business star blessed with vivacity and beauty. Furthermore, and like most really successful popular singers, she possessed genuine musical talent. She also had a large, loyal and well organised fan-base. In the period when she flourished she was one of the most charismatic and successful
STONELAKE, EDMUND WILLIAM (1873 - 1960), gwleidydd mis wedi i'r Streic Gyffredinol ddod i ben. Bu'n ysgrifennydd y Blaid Lafur yn yr etholaeth (1929-45), a threuliodd lawer o'i amser yn ystod gorthrwm yr 1930au yn trefnu gwrthdystiadau'r di-waith ac yn eu hyfforddi ar gyfer profion y Court of Referees oedd yn cyson herio'u hawl i fudd-dal. Yr oedd ganddo'r dirmyg mwyaf tuag at C.B. Stanton am iddo 'gilio o'i blaid' a bradychu Keir Hardie ar awr
STONELAKE, EDMUND WILLIAM (1873 - 1960), politician and a key figure in establishing the Labour Party in the Merthyr Boroughs constituency strike in 1926 which lasted six months after the General Strike ended. He was secretary of the Labour Party in the constituency (1929-45), and spent much of his time during the depression of the 1930s organizing the protests of the unemployed and preparing them for trials in the Court of Referees which constantly challenged their right to benefit payments. He utterly despised C.B. Stanton for
SUNDERLAND, ERIC (1930 - 2010), academic Welsh Committee of the British Council (1996-2001). These roles were combined with a seemingly ever extending range of service, particularly within Gwynedd, where he continued to live, and in Wales generally. He served on the Court of Governors of the National Museum (1991-1994) and on the Broadcasting Council for Wales (1996-2000). It fell to him to be Chief Counting Officer for the 1997 referendum
TALIESIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), bard historical Taliesin but he became much more popular than the latter, as may be seen in references by the 'Gogynfeirdd.' It is easy to apportion the contents of ' Llyfr Taliesin ' between the two (except the religious poems). The Gwion Taliesin is located in the Bala Lake district, in Maelgwn's court at Degannwy, and in Elphin's court - wherever that was. As to Taliesin the bard there is no certainty
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, in the parliaments of February–March 1553, September–December 1553, and 1571; and the county of Denbigh from 1563 to 1567. He was high sheriff of Denbighshire in 1572, and also a member of the Council of the Marches. In 1576, and again in 1579, he was appointed assistant to judge John Throgmorton, and deputy-judge of the Court of the Marches in 1580 and 1584. It was while holding this last
THOMAS, ALBAN (d. 1740?), cleric, poet, and translator by Mr. Alban Thomas at the Royal Society's House in Crane-Court, Fleet Street,' London) in 1719 towards the ' Collection of Writings in the Welsh Tongue, to the beginning of the Sixteenth Century, to be printed in several Volumes in Octavo,' which Moses Williams hoped to see published. Extracts from two letters written by him from Newcastle Emlyn to Sir Hans Sloane are given in West Wales Hist
THOMAS, ALBAN (d. 1740?), clerigwr, bardd, a chyfieithydd nyffryn isaf afon Teifi a oedd yn weithgar yn cynhyrchu llenyddiaeth, felly hefyd yr oedd y mab yn ymddiddori yng ngwaith ei gyfaill Moses Williams ac eraill ar linellau a oedd yn gyffelyb i raddau. Dyna, y mae'n ddiau, sydd yn cyfrif paham yr oedd yn barod i dderbyn tanysgrifiadau (' Subscriptions taken in by Mr. Alban Thomas at the Royal Society's House in Crane-Court, Fleet Street,' Llundain) yn 1719
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate the situation. His judicial work (on numerous occasions he deputised for county court judges) was marked by tact and firmness, but his chief distinction in this respect is that he was the pioneer in Wales of the system of probation at the courts. In 1917 he was chairman of the Welsh panel of the Commission of Enquiry into Industrial Unrest (the report of which was prepared by Edgar Chappell). His
THOMAS, DAVID (1739? - 1788), bone-setter Born at the Court, Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. He was the most famous of a family of bone-setters who had established a wide reputation for themselves in that particular profession and had won the confidence of a large number of their contemporaries. His claim to fame, however, was more on account of a natural bent than of any professional qualifications he possessed. He died 25 May 1788 at the age
THOMAS, HELEN WYN (1966 - 1989), peace activist inquest at Newbury Magistrates Court determined that the death was accidental. Although Helen's family felt her death was not properly investigated, they were unable to get the inquest re-opened. Helen's was the only death that occurred at Greenham as a result of the peace protests. She is remembered as the Greenham Common martyr. As the Cold War came to an end, the missiles and American military
THOMAS, JEFFREY (1933 - 1989), barrister and Labour\/SDP politician in the Royal Corps of Transport in 1959 (Senior Under-Officer), and he was appointed deputy director of the Army Legal Services, BAOR in 1961. He rose to the rank of major. He acquired a busy criminal practice on the Wales and Chester circuit and later in London. He became a QC in 1974 and a Crown Court Recorder in 1975, serving for over twelve years. He retained a great love for the bar throughout

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