Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, DAVID (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759 - 1822), man of letters and poet Born April 1759, son of Thomas and Mary Griffith of Pen-y-bont, Waun-fawr. THOMAS GRIFFITH was a weaver at the Glynllifon fulling-mill; he was also a Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and he and his son John, born 8 December 1748, had charge of the cause at Waun-fawr and used to cross the mountain to Llanberis to hold the society meeting at Llwyncelyn. (JOHN THOMAS became a Methodist preacher, and
THOMAS, DAVID RICHARD (1833 - 1916), cleric and historian articles. Similarly, he was chairman of the committee of the Powysland Club, and for many years editor of Mont. Coll., to which he contributed regularly. In addition to these antiquarian labours (he was by this time a F.S.A.), one should not omit a reference to his edition of Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd, 1883, the work of Peter Roberts, his own History of the Parish of Llandrinio, 1895, and, a book which commanded
THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect Headquarters at Caernarfon. Dewi-Prys Thomas was awarded a posthumous award with Merfyn Roberts, the T. Alwyn Lloyd Memorial Medal for Architecture at the National Eisteddfod held at Porthmadog in 1987 for designing the Gwynedd Council Offices. The papers and plans of Dewi-Prys Thomas are housed at The National Library of Wales, including plans for a memorial garden at Aberfan and meeting house for The
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer ' W. H. Auden and Michael Roberts had chosen 'We lying by seasand' - Thomas's first American publication. In Laugharne in 1938 he started writing his greatest prose work, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940), which he used to call 'stories towards a Provincial Autobiography'. Though only quasi realistic, these moved away from the surrealist/ mythic flavour of his earlier stories, and also
THOMAS, EBENEZER (Eben Fardd; 1802 - 1863), schoolmaster and poet the Miltonic style of the poem in the free metres 'Yr Atgyfodiad.' Eben Fardd was indeed the focus of much of the literary activity of the first half of the 19th century. His collected works were published under the title Gweithiau Barddonol, &c., Eben Fardd (in 1873 as it is supposed), edited by Howell Roberts and William Jones. His antiquarian interest is evinced in the volume entitled Cyff Beuno
THOMAS, EVAN (d. 1781) Cwmhwylfod, Sarnau, transcriber and owner of manuscripts It was a manuscript transcribed by him (now NLW MS 686B) that E. Stanton Roberts edited and published under the title Llysieulyfr Meddyginiaethol a briodolir i William Salesbury (Liverpool, 1916). Evan Thomas also owned Cwrtmawr MS 1D, NLW MS 642B and (a fact not then known to E. Stanton Roberts) NLW MS 4581B. The latter is a copy made by Roger Morris, Coed y Talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, of
THOMAS, EVAN CAMBRIA (1867 - 1930), doctor and public health pioneer of the impact of disease on public health. Two of his brothers died young, James Thomas (1856-1859) of diphtheria and Griffith Thomas (1858-1859) of unknown causes. His sister, Anne Thomas (1861-1865) died of scarlet fever and his mother of liver disease. He was much more that a 'country physician and surgeon' and his intervention, particularly with the diphtheria epidemic, reflected well on his
THOMAS, HUGH OWEN (1834 - 1891), orthopaedic surgeon in treating chronic bone disease, whereby many a limb escaped amputation. He married Jane Owen of Tyn-llan, Bodedern, Anglesey, sister of Dr. Owen Roberts, S. Asaph, who later received all their five sons in turn as apprentices before they proceeded to medical schools at which they qualified. Thomas retired in 1863 to Bryn Eglwys, Llanfwrog, Anglesey, where he died in 1884. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben
THOMAS, JOHN (Siôn Wyn o Eifion; 1786 - 1859), poet Born at Chwilog, in the parish of Llanarmon, Caernarfonshire. His father was Thomas Roberts, brother of Siôn Lleyn (John Roberts, 1749 - 1817), poet. When Siôn Wyn was 9 years of age he met with an accident, being crushed between a cart and a wall near his home. After recovering from this mishap he went to a school kept by Isaac Morris of Pentyrch Isaf who had taught Eben Fardd and Dewi Wyn
THOMAS, JOHN (1730 - 1804?), Congregational minister, and hymnist , Llanddeusant (1745), an experience which shook him to the core. He went to Llanddowror as man-servant to the Rev. Griffith Jones and stayed there two years. At the invitation of Howel Harris he went to Trevecka; by this time his greatest delight was in attending religious meetings and societies, in preaching, and exhorting. For some years he taught in some of Griffith Jones's circulating schools in South
THOMAS, JOHN ROWLAND (1881 - 1965), religious leader and prominent merchant Born 2 March 1881 at Penrhyndeudraeth, Caernarfonshire, son of Griffith and Ann Thomas. In 1883 Griffith Thomas and the family returned to Dwygyfylchi, Penmaenmawr - his old area. John Rowland attended Pencae school, Penmaenmawr, and won a scholarship to Friars School, Bangor, but after two years transferred to the new John Bright School at Llandudno. He went to work for a short period for the
THOMAS, JOHN STRADLING (1925 - 1991), Conservative politician Committee, 1979-83. He was Minister of State for Wales, 1983-85, having reluctantly agreed to take the position after the death of Michael Roberts MP in February 1983. He readily admitted thereafter that he missed the whip's office sorely. In 1985, Nicholas Edwards, the Secretary of State for Wales, replaced Stradling Thomas with Mark Robinson (Newport West) at the Welsh Office. He was a member of the Bow

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