Dictionary of Welsh Biography

STONELAKE, EDMUND WILLIAM (1873 - 1960), politician and a key figure in establishing the Labour Party in the Merthyr Boroughs constituency in the mine in compliance with the 1911 Mining Act. He was the first person in Britain to be elected thus, but his right was disputed by the company which was owned by the family of Sir D. R. Llewellyn until Keir Hardie secured his authority in the House of Commons. He was afterwards elected minimum wage representative for his fellow-workers, and he retained these posts until 1946. By 1897 he was a
STRADLING family DE HAWEY or HALWEIA, heiress of S. Donats, Combe Hawey in Somerset, and other estates in southern England. They were both in Ireland in 1298. He may have been the same person as the Sir Peter de Straddeley who was commanded to deliver Neath castle to Walter Hakelute in 1297. The manor of S. Donats was held by JOHN DE STRATELYNGGE in 1314-5, but by 1316 the head of the family in Glamorgan and
SULIEN (1011 - 1091), teacher and Bishop of St David's Born at Llanbadarn-fawr of a good (and probably clerical) family. After lengthy instruction in Welsh, Scottish (for five years), and Irish (for thirteen years) schools, he returned to his native Ceredigion and won great fame for his teaching and learning (see below for the Latin manuscripts written under his inspiration). In later life he was chosen bishop of S. Davids from 1072/3 to 1078, and
SUNDERLAND, ERIC (1930 - 2010), academic he had done also in the North of England). He was a proud Welsh speaker but in his own ancestry and family (on whose support and love he depended) and in his academic life he brought different worlds together. How he achieved that depended upon qualities of humour, artistic and musical sensitivity, intelligence, and sturdy application, all of which, happily, he possessed in abundance.
SYMMONS family Llanstinan,
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
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, JOHN THELWALL from whom the family is descended, settled in the Ruthin district with Reginald de Grey, about 1380. His son, also named JOHN, married Ffelis, daughter and heiress of John ap Rhys Fychan by Alice, daughter and heiress of Walter Cooke or Ward, of Plas y Ward; and thus were the Thelwall family first associated with this historic house. Little of note is known of the family's fortune
THELWALL, JOHN (1764 - 1834), reformer, lecturer and poet son of Joseph Thelwall (1731 - 1772), silk merchant of London, descended from a branch of the Thelwall family of Plas y Ward which settled in Crosby, Lancashire. He was born at Chandos Street, Covent Garden, 27 July 1764. He published Poems upon various subjects (London, 1787), and became editor of Biographical and Imperial Magazine. He came under the spell of the French Revolution, and joined
THICKENS, JOHN (1865 - 1952), minister (Presb.), historian and author Born 9 March 1865 at Abernantcwta, Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, son of David and Sarah Thickens. His father died when he was young, and his mother moved with the family to Pentre, Rhondda Valley. There, in Nazareth chapel, he began to preach, and he trained for the ministry at Trefeca College. He was ordained in 1894, and that year he married Cecilia Evans of Dowlais (sister of Sir David W. Evans
THODAY, DAVID (1883 - 1964), botanist, university professor Born 5 May 1883 at Honiton, Devon, the eldest of the six children of David Thoday, schoolmaster, and Susan Elizabeth (née Bingham) his wife. The family moved to London where he attended Tottenham grammar school, 1894-98, before entering Trinity College, Cambridge in 1902. He specialised in botany under the direction of H. Marshall Ward, A.C. Seward and F.F. Blackman, gaining first class in both
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 family Coed Helen (or Alun), Aber, 1617 (Hist. MSS. Comm., 13th Report, App., iv, 254). He was a prominent and constant ally of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir. In 1605 he took steps to acquire ' Koydalen,' Caernarvon (which eventually became the family's seat) and in this project enlisted the aid of Sir John Wynn (Cal. Wynn Papers, 343). The family already owned property within the borough of Caernarvon, and Sir William ' principal mansion

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