Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TALIESIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), bard there is here a wealth of valuable material for the use of those who wish to study the beginnings of Welsh bardic poetry or even the evolution of the Welsh language in the early period. As more light is obtained on the evolution of the language itself, so there comes new light on the history of the Dark Ages. One thing is clear by now. To the poet Taliesin of the end of the 6th century have been
TAYLOR, HENRY (1845 - 1927), historian and antiquary together with printed books and prints relating to Flintshire and transferred it to the National Library of Wales, of which he was a governor and a member of the council, to form the nucleus of a 'Flintshire Historical Collection.' The Henry Taylor manuscripts, now NLW MSS 6267-6331, show the wide range of his interests; of particular interest are the numerous letters from Welsh and other historians and
TEILO (fl. 6th century), Celtic saint views of the writers. The earliest evidence we have of the cult of S. Teilo comes from the Gospel Book of S. Chad. (This manuscript, which was once at Llandaff, is now at Lichfield; the N.L.W. has a facsimile.) While it says nothing about him in person, the entries on the margins of its pages show that in the 9th century, some three hundred years after his death, he was still venerated in South Wales
TERLEZKI, STEFAN (1927 - 2006), businessman and politician Stefan Terlezki was born on 29 October 1927 in Oleshiw, a village then in Poland (now in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine), the son of Oleksa Terletskyj (d. 1986), a farmer who also worked at the local brickworks, and his wife Olena (d. 1943). He grew up in nearby Antoniwka. Western Ukraine was occupied by Russian forces in 1939 and annexed to the Soviet Union. Several of Stefan's family members
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate Born 29 August 1863, the third child of William and Esther Thomas, at Llethr Enoch (now in ruins), Cwm-du (near Talley), in the parish of Llandeilo-fawr. His childhood was spent on the adjoining farm of Cefn Hendre, both farms being part of the Taliaris estate. His maternal grandfather was a half-brother of Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi). His early education, at Jonah Evans's academy at
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer reporter on the South Wales Daily Post in Swansea. By then, his widening interest in English poetry - the father's positive influence this time - had borne fruit in four school-type exercise books (the kind with mathematical tables and 'Danger-Donts' on the back), now known as 'The Notebooks'. In these, between 1930 and 1934, he entered quickly-maturing poems (a fifth 'Red' Notebook was kept for short
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953) London and periods of greater actual creativity in Wales was to remain the pattern throughout his career. A close friendship with the poet Vernon Watkins in Swansea started in 1935. He met Caitlin Macnamara in 1936 and they were married the following year. In May 1938 they moved for the first time to live in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, the village now most intimately associated with his name, and a
THOMAS, EDWARD (1925 - 1997), champion boxer and an outstanding boxing trainer and a public figure in the life of Merthyr Tydfil Eddie Thomas was born 27 July 1925, in a terraced house 11 Upper Colliers Row, Heolgerrig to Urias Thomas (1896-1959), a coalminer, and his wife Mary (née Miles, 1902-1982), though some obituaries note, wrongly, 1926 as the year of his birth. Both families had strong Welsh connections, and the family of Urias Thomas lived in one of the cottages of Rhyd-y-car which are now in St Fagans Museum of
THOMAS, EVAN (d. 1781) Cwmhwylfod, Sarnau, transcriber and owner of manuscripts It was a manuscript transcribed by him (now NLW MS 686B) that E. Stanton Roberts edited and published under the title Llysieulyfr Meddyginiaethol a briodolir i William Salesbury (Liverpool, 1916). Evan Thomas also owned Cwrtmawr MS 1D, NLW MS 642B and (a fact not then known to E. Stanton Roberts) NLW MS 4581B. The latter is a copy made by Roger Morris, Coed y Talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, of
THOMAS, HUGH (1673 - 1720), herald and antiquary antiquarian research at an early age. About 1698 he wrote a dissertation on the history of Brecknock (the manuscript is now in the Bodleian Library, while a copy, probably incomplete, is in the National Library of Wales - NLW MS 777B) which was used and quoted from by Theophilus Jones; he also compiled a large collection of genealogies (also used to some extent by Theophilus Jones) which is now among the
THOMAS, HUGH OWEN (1834 - 1891), orthopaedic surgeon war and since the Thomas calliper saved thousands of limbs and is now in daily use in most hospitals throughout the world. Hugh Owen Thomas died, over-worked, at the age of 57, on 6 January 1891. The manifestation of grief in Liverpool was astonishing. No other pioneer contributed so much in establishing the fundamental principles of orthopaedic surgery.
THOMAS, JENKIN (Siencyn Pen-hydd; 1746 - 1807), Methodist exhorter Lewis of Llanfihangel Ynys Afan, and went to live for a time at Aberafan, but left this place to go to Goetre, near the old chapel of Dyffryn, Tai-bach, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died 26 December 1807, and was buried in the churchyard at Llanfihangel Ynys Afan - now known as Cwmafan. 'Siencyn Pen-hydd' was one of the most remarkable preachers of his generation and became talked of

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