Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect adopted the hyphen in his name later in his life. His father was treasurer of the Welsh Nationalist Party (Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru) and his mother was national treasurer of the Welsh Pacifists. Ambrose Bebb and George M. Ll. Davies were regular visitors to the family home in Liverpool, and Dewi-Prys joined the Welsh Nationalist Party under the influence of Ambrose Bebb when he was fifteen years old
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953) therefore the poet and his family lived in or near Oxford. He visited Prague in 1949 as guest of the Czechoslovakian government. He moved to live in the ' Boat House ' at Laugharne in May 1949, where his third child was born, and where Thomas hoped to establish a permanent home, helped possibly by visits to America where his reputation as a poet was now firm. The first of these visits was in February-June
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer father of Llewelyn Edouard (1939-2000) and Aeronwy Bryn (1943-2009), his hope was to earn a living at home in Wales. The wartime work for film and radio had helped in that respect, but had also meant his living within easy reach of London. Between 1946 and 1949, the family lived in or near Oxford, with visits to Ireland, Italy and Prague. But wherever he was, Thomas never stopped working on poems
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, EDWARD WILLIAM (1814 - 1892), musician Born 29 January 1814 in London. His father, a native of Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, was a good musician and could play the violin. In 1820 the family moved to Glynllifon, Caernarfonshire, the seat of lord Newborough, to whom the father became agent. When he was eight E. W. Thomas went with a sister to live at Oxford with a relative. He was sent to the Royal Academy of Music where he studied under
THOMAS, EDWARD (1925 - 1997), champion boxer and an outstanding boxing trainer and a public figure in the life of Merthyr Tydfil Eddie Thomas was born 27 July 1925, in a terraced house 11 Upper Colliers Row, Heolgerrig to Urias Thomas (1896-1959), a coalminer, and his wife Mary (née Miles, 1902-1982), though some obituaries note, wrongly, 1926 as the year of his birth. Both families had strong Welsh connections, and the family of Urias Thomas lived in one of the cottages of Rhyd-y-car which are now in St Fagans Museum of
THOMAS, EVAN CAMBRIA (1867 - 1930), doctor and public health pioneer a petition by the community for improvements in 1906. He was an active supporter and fundraiser for the building of the Allt-y-Mynydd Consumptive Sanatorium in Llanybydder. Like many pioneers, he suffered from feelings of desperate frustration with the authorities, and he had to force the hands of the guardians, inspectors and council officials. He had personal experience through family tragedies
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, 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, HUGH (1673 - 1720), herald and antiquary son of William Thomas, merchant, of London, by Petronilla his wife, daughter of William Brand of Lincoln's Inn. He was born 30 June 1673 in Fetter Lane, and christened 1 July in S. Dunstans-in-the-West, and was descended from an old family (Roman Catholic, it is said) of Llanfrynach, near Brecon, but his grandfather, Roger Thomas, had sold the ancestral home. His ancestor, Thomas ap John (died
THOMAS, HUGH OWEN (1834 - 1891), orthopaedic surgeon Born at Bodedern, Anglesey, 23 August 1834. He was descended from a well-known family of bonesetters whose origin was tinged with tragedy and romance. In the 18th century a shipwreck occurred off the coast of Llanfairynghornwy from which the only survivor was a Spanish -speaking boy. He was adopted by a childless couple named Thomas, who farmed Maes between the church and the sea. He assumed
THOMAS, IDRIS (1889 - 1962), minister (B) Born 1889, the eldest of the seven children of Jenkin and Ann Thomas, Cilfynydd, Glamorganshire. When he was six years old the family moved to Moriah, near Aberystwyth, where his grandfather, Jenkin Thomas (c. 1824 - 1865), had been a minister (B). He went to work in a shop in Aberystwyth when he was 13 years old but 3 years later he returned to the south, to Abercynon, where he was encouraged to

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