Dictionary of Welsh Biography

STEPNEY family Prendergast, the diocese of S. Davids for life. He was also registrar of the diocese. He married (1), 1565, Margaret (c. 1546 - ante 1573), daughter and coheiress of Thomas Catharn of Prendergast, who brought him the manor of Prendergast, and (2), before 1573, Mary, daughter of William Philipps of Picton. In local politics he became prominent within a group of gentry, led by William Philipps, in opposition to
STRADLING family Somerset was EDWARD STRADLYNG, who was knighted in 1327. He had married Ellen, daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert Strongbow (brother to the earl of Pembroke), before 1317. He was ordered to seize the goods late of Hugh le Despenser in Glamorgan, 1330. In 1337 he witnessed a grant of lands in Glamorgan to the church of S. Mary, Tewkesbury. He held offices in Somerset and Dorset and was Member of
SUNDERLAND, ERIC (1930 - 2010), academic Eric Sunderland was born in Blaenau near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire on 18 March 1930, the second son of Leonard Sunderland (1898-1990), Sanitary Inspector to Amman Valley Council, and his wife Mary Agnes (née Davies 1901-1997). His elder brother was Terence Raymond Sunderland (1921-2012). Eric was educated at Amman Valley Grammar School; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1947-50), BA
TALBOT family Margam Abbey, Penrice Castle, It was by marriage with a Mansel of Margam - see Mansel family of Margam and Penrice - that a member of the Wiltshire family of Talbot became connected with Glamorgan. JOHN IVORY TALBOT of Lacock Abbey, who married MARY MANSEL, daughter of Thomas Mansel (died 1723), 1st baron Mansel. THOMAS TALBOT, cleric, son of this marriage, became eventually, through his mother, and on the death (1750) of his
TEMPLE, ANNE - see HUGHES, HYWEL STANFORD
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, Law Seventh son of John Wynn Thelwall, entered Balliol College, Oxford, 16 October 1581, aged 20, and graduated B.A. [from S. Mary Hall ] on 28 February 1584. He was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1591, and became chief clerk to Sir Daniel Dunne, judge of the prerogative court; a proctor of the court of arches, and registrar of Bangor. He sat as Member of Parliament for Denbigh from February to April
THODAY, DAVID (1883 - 1964), botanist, university professor who, as Mary Gladys Sykes of Girton College and a research fellow of Newnham College, was author of a number of papers on botanical subjects. She was the daughter of John Thorley Sykes of Rossett, Denbighshire. They had four sons. His wife died in 1943, and he died at Llanfairfechan 30 March 1964.
THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner Gladys Thoday was born on 13 March 1884 in Chester, the first child of John Thorley Sykes (1852-1908), a cotton broker, and his wife Mary Louisa (née March, 1856-1951). She had one sister, Olive Thorley Sykes (1886-1933). The family later moved to the Sykes family home at Croes Howell near Gresford in Denbighshire. She was educated at the Queen's School, Chester, before going up at the age of
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate to read for the Bar. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn on 15 May 1889. He joined the South Wales circuit, holding his first brief at the Carmarthen assizes on 10 December 1889. He married, 18 June 1892, at S. Pancras church, Mary Gethin of Aberdare, a great-grand-daughter of Tomos Glyn Cothi. In 1891 he began contributing to the Dictionary of National Biography, having been introduced to
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 Born in 1833 (christened 14 September 1833), the second son and third child of Owen Thomas, ' gentleman farmer,' of Bodynfol, Llanfechain, and Mary his wife. He was educated at Ruthin school under E. L. Barnwell, and went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1852, although the family was reduced in circumstances owing to his father's sudden death, and he was forced to teach in the vacations in order to
THOMAS, EBENEZER (Eben Fardd; 1802 - 1863), schoolmaster and poet , when he won the prize for his ode, 'Dinystr Jerusalem.' In 1825 he went to keep school at Llanarmon, moving, in 1827, to Clynnog. In 1830 he married Mary Williams, Caerpwsan, Clynnog, and there were four children of the marriage - three daughters and one son. His wife used to bake bread and keep shop, and he himself bound books, in order to augment his earnings as a schoolmaster, and he later became

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