Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, EDWARD (Cochfarf; 1853 - 1912), carpenter, politician and Mayor of Cardiff Free Library Committee; he was also the chairman of the sub-committee of the boro. council which arranged for the boro. records to be examined and described by John Hobson Mathews; he frequently contributed to the local press and to periodicals. He was a Baptist and a staunch Liberal; he worked for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church in Wales. He was a member of the Society for the
THOMAS, IVOR OWEN (1898 - 1982), Labour politician the Great Western Railway, Pontypool Road, 1919-23, and at the Head Office of the National Union of Railwaymen, 1925-45 and 1955-58. He was a member of the Battersea Borough Council, 1929-45, and was chairman of its housing committee, 1934-38. Thomas was elected the Labour MP for the Wrekin division of Shropshire in the general election of July 1945 and sat until his defeat in 1955 when he lost the
THOMAS, JEFFREY (1933 - 1989), barrister and Labour\/SDP politician election of 1966, where he came within 1394 votes of toppling the sitting Conservative MP Sir Raymond Gower. He served as the Labour MP for his native Abertillery, 1970-83 (as a SDP member from 1981). His majority in the general election of June 1970 was almost 20,000. He also stood, though rather half-heartedly, as the SDP-Alliance candidate for Cardiff West in the general election of 1983. He was a
THOMAS, JOHN STRADLING (1925 - 1991), Conservative politician 1966. He was the Conservative MP for Monmouth, 1970 until his death. By 1987 he had built up his once slender majority to 9,350 votes. Though he rarely spoke in the House of Commons, he was highly regarded as a splendid member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairman, chairing committees with unfailing flair and good humour. He served as a member of the Select Committee on the Civil List, 1970-71. He was
THOMAS, JOSEPH MORGAN (1868 - 1955), minister (U) and Free Catholic, councillor and public figure Old Meeting House, Birmingham, 1912-32. This was a successful yet turbulent period of his life when he was influenced both by the rationalism of L.P. Jacks, on the one hand, and the catholicism of W.S. Orchard on the other, two of his bosom friends. He continued to be a liberal Unitarian, but he had already published a pamphlet on A Free Catholic Church (1907), containing ideas which were developed
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA), (1883 - 1958), author, editor and chairperson of companies father's death in 1914) in Trinity Church near Caerleon, Monmouth. This was an ill-matched union. He was twelve years older than she was, with hardly any interests except in his hunting hounds - he was the master of the Llangybi pack; she was an avid reader, while he hardly ever opened a book; he was a Tory, she the daughter of a prominent Liberal, though out of a sense of duty she resigned from the
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman Margaret Haig Thomas was born on 12 June 1883 in Bayswater, London, the only child of the wealthy industrialist and Liberal politician, David Alfred Thomas (later Lord Rhondda), from Ysgubor-wen near Aberdare, and his wife Sybil Margaret (née Haig, 1857-1941) descended from an ancient Scots Border family, with parents living at Pen Ithon Hall, Radnorshire. The Thomases spent long holidays there
THOMAS, NATHANIEL (1818 - 1888), Baptist minister place he built a new chapel. He married Laura Emily Blagdon, a Churchwoman who had become a Baptist. He spent thirty years at Tabernacle, Cardiff, and was responsible for the present edifice. He served as editor of Y Bedyddiwr, was an advocate of temperance, educational and Liberal movements, and helped to succour blind and unfortunate people. He was the first president of the Welsh Baptist Union; he
THOMAS, Sir (1858 - 1923), agriculturist, soldier, and Member of Parliament some refractory cases of discipline which found their way into the newspapers of the time; he was knighted in 1917. He had always been a keen politician - as far back as 1894 his name had been mentioned as a likely Liberal candidate for Anglesey, and in December 1918, he came forward as Labour candidate, and won the seat from E. J. Ellis-Griffith, who had represented the county since 1895. In 1919-20
THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons 1974 (and may well have been told by Wilson that the position was his for the taking), but Harold Wilson, fully aware of his attitude to Welsh nationalism, chose in his place the more moderate and emollient figure of John Morris, long-serving MP for Aberavon. He had been severely shaken, too, by the death in 1972 of his beloved Mam, herself a figure of some consequence throughout south Wales. She had
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Marles; 1834 - 1879), Unitarian minister, social reformer, writer, and schoolmaster from September 1865 to August 1867. His chief contributions to the Ymofynydd were 'Cofion a Chyffesiadau,' 1861, 'Hanner awr gyda'r Bardd o Bantycelyn,' 1863, and 'Theodore Parker,' 1863-4. He was completely converted to Parker's theological and social views and, for that reason, may be regarded as the founder of modern Unitarianism in Wales. He joined wholeheartedly in the Liberal movement in
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1832 - 1911), Congregational minister ministry of Rhys Pryse. He was at Brecon College, 1852-55, and was ordained minister of Soar and Bethel, Whitland, 25 and 26 December 1855. The cause at Whitland prospered under his ministry; Soar became too small and so the Tabernacle was built. He won a name for himself as a leader in temperance, educational, political, and religious movements; he was a staunch Liberal. Besides contributions to

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