Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, ROBERT (d. 1774), poet, and sexton of Llanfair Talhaearn Denbighshire Prys, and Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) He was buried at Llanfair Talhaearn on 18 December 1774; Dafydd Siôn Prys wrote an elegy upon him (Additional Letters of the Morrises of Anglesey (1735-86), p. 736).
THOMAS, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1873 - 1951), politician and shipowner Born 23 April 1873, the son of William and Catherine Thomas, Bootle. He was educated at Bootle College, Liverpool Institute and Tettenhall College. He began working as a ship and insurance broker in the family business at Liverpool, and later became an underwriter at Lloyds. Thomas served as M.P. (Coalition Lib.) for the Wrexham division, 1918-22, stood unsuccessfully in Anglesey in 1922 before
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman what he saw as the shortcomings in his own nature (such as lack of physical courage and supposed inability to love) with which he periodically wrestled in his poetry. He was raised, however, from the age of five in Holyhead, Anglesey, solaced by the sea, and wandering the surrounding countryside that nurtured his solitary nature. It was with north Wales that he continued to identify strongly
THOMAS, ROWLAND (c. 1887 - 1959), newspaper proprietor bench. The publishing business had been transferred to his son Eric Lionel Thomas before he retired to live in Llandegfan, Anglesey. He died suddenly, 17 May 1959, at Harrogate.
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1790 - 1861), poet Born at Amlwch in 1790. His parents moved to Bodedern while he was young and he attended the services held by the Wesleyans there. He joined them and preached with them for a short period, being the first Wesleyan preacher to be raised in Anglesey. He was a saddler by trade. He moved to Aberffraw in 1814 and to Holyhead in 1830. In 1842 he published Ffrwyth Myfyrdodol (Caernarvon), a volume of
THOMAS, WILLIAM THEOPHILUS (Gwilym Gwenffrwd; 1824 - 1899), Congregational minister and poet Born at Holywell, Flintshire. As a young man he went to Manchester, where he joined the Welsh Congregational church at Gartside, and was of much service to it and to other churches in the vicinity. He served as an assistant preacher until 1851, in which year he was ordained - at Cana, Llanddaniel, Anglesey. His health broke down during the short period which he spent there. Having recovered his
TIBBOTT family suddenly at Esgairdawe, 6 February 1785, and was buried at Pencarreg. His son was ABRAHAM TIBBOTT (1752 - 1808), who also was born at Llanbryn-mair. He was educated at Abergavenny and, c. 1775, became minister at Rhos-y-meirch, the oldest Nonconformist cause in Anglesey. He moved c. 1783 to Llanuwchllyn, and in 1792 to Cymer Glyncorrwg and Llangynwyd, Glamorgan, where he ministered for two years and also
TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, Blackwater, 1598, whose son married Sir Richard Trevor's daughter), Sir Sackville lived with her at Plas Newydd, the Anglesey property that came to the Bagenall s by marriage with the Griffiths of Penrhyn, and was elected for the island in Charles I's first Parliament, where he was one of the deputation that took to the king the Puritan petition of 8 July 1625. Next year the counties of Anglesey, Denbigh
TREVOR family Brynkynallt, and was rewarded with Irish land and office, a seat on the Irish privy council, and the title of viscount Dungannon and baron Trevor (22 August 1662). He married, as his second wife, Ann, daughter of John Lewis of Presaddfed, Anglesey, and widow of Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton, and was succeeded in the peerage by her two sons, Lewis and Mark, after whose death without offspring, it lapsed (8 November
TREVOR, JOHN (d. 1410), bishop of St Asaph any warrant for this in the available pedigrees [see Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1951, 57 (f.n. 98)]. The first recorded reference to him is in 1386 when he is found holding the precentorship of Bath and Wells, an office which he continued to enjoy until 1393. Meanwhile he had been elected bishop by the chapter of St Asaph in 1389, but having visited Rome and
TUDOR family Penmynydd, For the early history to 1412, see the article on Ednyfed Fychan. The Penmynydd or senior branch of the family to which Owain Tudor and his royal descendants were related continued to be represented among the Anglesey squirearchy down to the beginning of the 18th century. From the time of Goronwy (died 1382) the family estate passed in direct male succession for a period of seven generations. It
TUDOR, STEPHEN OWEN (1893 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author Berw, Anglesey (1927-29), Tabernacl, Porthmadog (1929-35), and Moriah, Caernarfon (1935-62). During World War II he served as a chaplain in the army. After retiring, he moved to Colwyn Bay, supervising the churches at Llanddulas and Llysfaen. In 1927 he married Ann Hughes Parry of Machynlleth; they had two sons and two daughters. He died 30 June 1967 and his remains were buried at Llawr-y-glyn

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