Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, ALFRED (1840 - 1927) Bronwydd,, baron Pontypridd constituency of east Glamorgan from 1885 until his retirement in 1910, and was elected chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party in 1898. He was also justice of the peace for Cardiff and Glamorgan, and deputy-lieutenant for Glamorgan. The movement to establish a University College at Cardiff in 1882 found in him a very ardent supporter, and he became a member of the council and subsequently its
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (Myfyr Emlyn; 1836 - 1893), Baptist minister, poet, lecturer, and author fervent Liberal.
THOMAS, DAVID ALFRED (first viscount RHONDDA), (1856 - 1918), businessman and politician, Liberal Member of Parliament , Margaret Haig. In the first phase of his career (up to 1906) D. A. Thomas's real interest was politics: he topped the poll four times as Liberal Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil. But success eluded him in Westminster; and when, after the 'landslide' of 1906 Campbell-Bannerman did not give him office, he was bitterly disappointed and turned all his energies to the Cambrian collieries. The amassing
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

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