Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons Tonypandy. He was a pupil at Tonypandy Grammar School, 1920-27, and then became an uncertificated teacher at Dagenham before taking a teacher training course at the University of Southampton, 1929-31. He had joined the Labour Party as a youth back in 1924 and had delivered his first political speech at the age of eighteen, to the Women's Co-operative Guild of Tonypandy. He also became a member of the
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1813), Unitarian Baptist minister 1796, he and Griffith Jones were ordained co-pastors of Pant Teg - ironically enough, Thomas took part in the ordination service of Titus Lewis at Blaen-y-waun, Pembrokeshire, in 1797. In the schism of 1799, Thomas and the Arminian party retained possession of Pant Teg chapel, which is today one of the three chapels which alone in Wales bear the designation ' General Baptist ' - see under Evan Lloyd
THOMAS, WILLIAM PHILLIP (Gwilym Rhondda; 1861 - 1954), colliery official Born 27 October 1861, son of Mary Thomas (née Phillips) and her husband of Treorchy, Glamorganshire. In 1874 he left the local school at the age of 12 to commence work as an office-boy with the Ocean Coal Co.; he rose to become general manager in 1926, retiring in 1933. He was director of the company 1927-37, and of many other coal companies besides. He was well known as an organiser of social
THOMAS, ZACHARIAS (1727 - 1816), Baptist minister preach there in 1757, but in 1762 moved to Beudyau, Caeo, to assist his brother Timothy as pastor of Aberduar and its branches, and was ordained there in 1771 as co-pastor with David Saunders ' I ' and David Davies - as co-pastor because apparently of a difference of opinion on the rite of laying on of hands. In 1790, after some years of anxiety arising from the expiry of the lease of Beudyau, he moved
TREGONING, WILLIAM EDWARD CECIL (1871 - 1957), industrialist Born 17 February 1871, second son of John Simon Tregoning of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, and Sophia (née Morris, of Liverpool) his wife. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming a tinplate manufacturer and director of John S. Tregoning Co. Ltd. (one of the first tinplate firms, in Llanelli), St. David's Tinplate Co., Bynea Steel Works Ltd., and other companies. He
TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, grandson JOHN TREVOR (born c. 1652) He also inherited from a cousin the Sussex estate of Glynde - henceforth the chief residence of the family. On the death of his grandson, JOHN TREVOR, commissioner of the admiralty, in 1743, the male line came to an end, and his eight sisters became co-heiresses. The Sussex estates were devised by will to descendants of Thomas Trevor, 1st baron Trevor; the Welsh
TREVOR family Brynkynallt, Public and Social Service, Civil Administration He went to Ireland (with Edward Blayney of Gregynog) as a captain in the expedition sent to retrieve the Blackwater disaster (c. 11 September 1598), stayed there on garrison duty, was wounded and commended for gallantry in 1600, and married Rose Ussher, the primate ' daughter, acquiring an estate in Co. Down (called by him Rostrevor) and helping in the
TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (d. c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary lion (i.e. William), gave hospitality to the old Earls.A welcome was given to the King, Henry VII,And his Earls; he was great once.She gave service all her life,To the one who is Queen today (i.e. Mary I) …. Blanche was one of the eleven co-heiresses (a son and daughter died young) of Simon Milborne and Jane (Baskerville) of Burghill, Herefordshire. The family had wide-spread connections. Sir William
TURNBULL, MAURICE JOSEPH LAWSON (1906 - 1944), cricketer and rugby player Test matches, including all five Tests against South Africa in 1930-31; on this tour he scored 139 against Western Province. Accounts of his MCC tours were published in the two volumes of which he was the co-author with M. J. C. Allom, The book of the two Maurices (1930) and The two Maurices again (1931). He had led Glamorgan in August 1929, and, appointed captain in 1930, led the county for ten
TURNER, WILLIAM (1766 - 1853), pioneer of the North Wales slate industry Lancashire friends, Thomas Casson and William Casson, to join him in working the quarry. This was done, Hugh Jones, Hengwrt Ucha, Dolgelley, joining them in a company called ' William Turner and Co. '; for the subsequent history of the undertaking, see G. J. Williams, Hanes Plwyf Ffestiniog. His son, Sir Llewelyn Turner, in The Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner (London, 1903), gives particulars of his
VAN HEYNINGEN, RUTH ELEANOR (1917 - 2019), biochemist the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology in Oxford, in 1951 Ruth van Heyningen began research on the biochemical causes of cataracts, and the two co-authored the influential textbook Biochemistry of the Eye in 1956. Since diabetes causes cataracts to worsen, van Heyningen considered the metabolism of sugars in the eye to be an important factor. She discovered that the sugars are reduced to sugar
VAUGHAN family Courtfield, well-known Jesuit preacher (' Father Bernard Vaughan '); and JOHN VAUGHAN, co-adjutor bishop of Salford. Four sisters became nuns. CARDINAL VAUGHAN (1832 - 1903), eighth Vaughan of Courtfield, was succeeded by his brother, FRANCIS BAYNHAM VAUGHAN (1844 - 1919), ninth of Courtfield. He, in turn, was followed by his son CHARLES JEROME VAUGHAN (1873 - 1948), tenth of Courtfield; he was ' Camerario

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