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THOMAS, HUMPHREY (1745 - 1805), schoolmaster - see
THOMAS, DAVID
THOMAS, JOHN
(1821 - 1892), Independent minister, politician, and historian
Williams. In 1831 he lost his father and, as he had to earn a living, became an assistant in a grocer's shop. This attempt lasted nine months and he was then apprenticed to a cobbler, one Dafydd
Llwyd
. He then left home and tramped over parts of Merionethshire looking unsuccessfully for work. Later, he went to Liverpool where he was employed for a few months and where he was admitted to full membership
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY
(Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist
competition at the Dolgellau national eisteddfod in 1949 under the name Ffanni
Llwyd
(see D.J. Williams's adjudication in Cyfansoddiadau a Beirniadaethau (1949), 153). One of her short stories, ' Trwy ddrych mewn dameg ', appeared in Y Cymro, 9 April 1954, described as a skilful, concise, and intense story, and she wrote scripts and plays for the B.B.C. for some 10-15 years, giving up only when she was
THOMAS, MARGARET
(1779 - ?), hymnwriter
daughter of William
Llwyd
of Vaenol, near Bangor, Caernarfonshire. As a young woman she married one Edmund Williams; her second marriage (c. 1817) was with Edward Thomas of Tal-y-bont Uchaf, Llanllechid, an elder at Gatws church (Calvinistic Methodist), near Bangor. Her hymns are found written on the blank pages of an old edition of the Bible, T. Charles's Geiriadur, and an old copy of the Book
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG
(VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA), (1883 - 1958), author, editor and chairperson of companies
whilst canvassing in her father's elections in Merthyr Tydfil. She threw herself into her father's industrial interests, and acted as his secretary, which was useful in preparing her for the period when she had to take her father's place on industrial boards when government work weighed heavily on his shoulders, and after his death in 1918. In 1908 she married
Humphrey
Mackworth (baronet after his
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG
(1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman
she married
Humphrey
Mackworth (1871-1948, baronet from 1914). He was from a Conservative background, the oldest surviving son in one of the county's principal landowning and military families. The couple lived near Caerleon. It was not a promising match: his chief interest was hunting, hers was reading and more or less coinciding with her marriage, the women's suffrage movement. After a cousin, the
THOMAS, NICHOLAS
(d. 1741), printer and publisher
In 1714 John Rogers printed at Shrewsbury, Dirgelwch …, sef Llyfr y Tri Aderyn, by Morgan Lloyd (Morgan
Llwyd
o Wynedd) for Nicholas Thomas and Lewis Thomas, the latter a travelling bookseller, of Llangrannog, Cardiganshire A little later, viz. in 1718, Nicholas Thomas was himself at Shrewsbury learning the craft of printing either at the office of John Rogers or that of John Rhydderch; a year
THOMAS, TIMOTHY
(1694 - 1751), cleric and scholar
son of Thomas Thomas, ' gent ', Llandovery. From Westminster School he went to Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 4 July 1712, B.A. 1716, M.A. 12 March 1718/19, B.D. and D.D. 1735). He became a chaplain to Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, and so came to know
Humphrey
Wanley, the earl's librarian; his brother William Thomas (fl. 1685-1740) was also in the service of the earl. He was still a young
TUDUR ALED
(fl. 1480-1526), poet
(see op. cit., II, 725, 15-25, 729, 23-6, 735, 9-14). Raff ap Robert in his elegy to Tudur Aled says: ' Mae'n brudd llu am un bardd
llwyd
, O bur addysg, a briddwyd; Aeron o gorff yr un gŵr, Un i Dduw yn weddiwr; Dyna roi un da'n i raid, Syr Siôn, rhag siars i enaid; Peri alaeth i'r prelad, Fu oer a dwys farw i dad ' (op. cit., II, 744, 17-24). On the strength of these lines it has been maintained
TYDECHO
(fl. 6th century), Celtic saint
century bard Dafydd
Llwyd
ap Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, who lived at Mathafarn, not far from where S. Tydecho is supposed to have settled. From his ' Cywydd Tydecho Saint ' we learn that the saint lived the life of a hermit with his sister Tegfedd, and was frequently annoyed by that arch-enemy of the saints, Maelgwn Gwynedd. In the following century Mathew Brwmfield wrote a Cywydd to Tydecho and the two
VAUGHAN
family Corsygedol,
a general account of Corsygedol and the Vaughans in Archæologia Cambrensis, vi (1875), 1-16; this account was edited and annotated by W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth from a transcript by Angharad
Llwyd
from a Mostyn manuscript compiled in 1770 by William Vaughan (below). Various members of the family, as shown by Edward Breese in Kalendars of Gwynedd, served as high sheriffs of Merioneth (and some of
VAUGHAN
family Tretower Court,
constable of Cardigan castle. After the battle of Tewkesbury, 1471, it is said that Edward IV ordered him to pursue and capture Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke, but it was Vaughan himself who fell into the earl's hands, to be summarily beheaded at Chepstow. His elegies were sung by Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal or Huw Cae
Llwyd
, and Llywelyn Goch y Dant, who accused Jasper Tudor of treachery and guile. Guto'r
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