Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, LAWRENCE (1889 - 1960), archdeacon Born 19 August 1889, son of David and Elizabeth Thomas, Gelli-gaer, Glamorganshire. He was educated at Lewis' School, Pengam, St. David's College, Lampeter, where he gained B.A. (2nd-class honours) Divinity 1911; St. Michael's College, Llandaff, and was ordained in 1912 and served as curate of St. John's, Canton. He was ordained priest in 1913. In 1914 he served as curate of Headington Quarry
THOMAS, LEWIS (1568 - 1619), cleric and author He is also known as Lewis Evans, alias Thomas, under which name he matriculated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 11 December 1584, at the age of 16. He graduated B.A. from Brasenose College, 15 February 1586/7. He was apparently a native of Radnorshire, but in the entry under the Thomas form of his name Foster (Alumni Oxonienses), quoting the Rawlinson manuscript, says that 'he was beneficed to his
THOMAS, LEWIS (1832 - 1913) Queensland, pioneer of coal-mining in 1894 he entered Parliament as member for Bundamba and, after being re-elected in 1896, retired from the seat in 1899. In 1902 he was called to the Legislative Council. The community which he helped to establish at Blackstone became the leading centre of Welsh life and culture in Queensland. He died 16 February 1913, and was buried in Ipswich cemetery. He endowed a Lewis Thomas Scholarship
THOMAS, LEWIS (d. March 1704), one of the chief leaders of the Particular Baptists
THOMAS, LEWIS (fl. first half of the 20th century) south Wales, pioneer of the art of Cerdd Dant Born at Pontyberem, Gwendraeth Valley, Carmarthenshire, 30 May 1877, the eldest of nine sons of William Thomas, a collier, and his wife, Jane. Lewis worked in the mines for a short period before being apprenticed and gaining his trade as a local shoemaker. In 1905 he married Mary Emiah Jones, a teacher at Pontyberem, but originally from Llan-non, Llanelli. They had a son and two daughters. His
THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN (1883 - 1970), missionary in India with the London Missionary Society Born 2 February 1883 at Llangefni, Anglesey, son of Cefni and Mary (née Williams) Thomas. The family moved to Rhiwbryfdir, Blaenau Ffestiniog, when he was five. After a period as a pupil-teacher and working on the railway, he moved to Corwen and then Birkenhead. There he came under the influence of the 1904-05 religious revival and began preaching; he had wished to become a missionary since he
THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD VAUGHAN- - see VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist -named) references to them in her work, especially Y bryniau pell and to a lesser extent, Diwrnod yw ein bywyd. Many of the situations and events in Y bryniau pell are autobiographical and she has many scathing references to preachers and ministers and to her own circumstances as an orphan and the subject of comment. She married Richard Thomas, Chief Clerk in the Education Dept. of Denbighshire County
THOMAS, LUCY (1781 - 1847), pioneer of the Welsh coal industry - see LEWIS, Sir WILLIAM THOMAS
THOMAS, MANSEL TREHARNE (1909 - 1986), composer, conductor, BBC Wales Head of Music Mansel Thomas was born in Llewelyn Street, Pontygwaith, near Tylorstown in the Rhondda Fach, Glamorgan, 12 June 1909, the son of Theophilus and Edith Treharne Thomas. He had an older brother, Wilfred, who died in infancy, and a younger sister, Elizabeth. His father, a keen amateur musician and the precentor at Hermon Welsh Baptist Chapel, Pontygwaith, was well-known locally as a choral conductor
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 Born 12 June 1883 in Bayswater, London, the only child of David Alfred Thomas and his wife Sybil Margaret, daughter of George Augustus Haig, Pen Ithon, Radnorshire. She was taught initially by private governess at home. Then she was sent to Notting Hill secondary school, where she started a printed magazine, The Shooting Star, to which her relations contributed. From there she went to St

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