Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant of Leigh. In addition to these successes he had important commissions which included county offices for Glamorgan, the Temple of Peace - directly commissioned by Lord Davies - both in Cathays Park, Cardiff; county offices for Carmarthenshire and police headquarters and fire station for Worcester. He was now a recognised authority on planning and designing public buildings, and he was appointed
THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD (1878 - 1917), poet , went to France in February 1917, and was killed at Arras 9 April of that year. Some six months before enlisting he had begun, under the influence of Robert Frost and with the pen name 'Edward Eastaway,' to write the poems on which his fame now rests secure. His Collected Poems appeared in 1920 with a preface by Walter de la Mare. His poems and Helen Thomas's As It Was and World Without End are his
THOMAS, ROBERT (Ap Vychan; 1809 - 1880), Independent minister and tutor, poet and man of letters Oswestry he had the opportunity of getting acquainted with the English language and immediately joined the English church which was then under the ministry of Dr. T. W. Jenkyn. He now set about studying the works of Dr. Edward Williams, Fuller, Jonathan Edwards, and others. There were some who were anxious to see him begin preaching in the English chapel but at the beginning of 1835 he left and went to
THOMAS, Sir ROGER (1886 - 1960), pioneer of modern agriculture 16 and college, he taught as an uncertificated teacher at Pontyberem Primary and Narberth Board Schools, and at a private school in Taunton. After graduating in 1913, he was appointed a member of the Indian Agricultural Service and joined the Agricultural College of Coimbatore, South India, later becoming Deputy Director of Agriculture, Madras. In 1917 he went to Mesopotamia (now Iraq) as Deputy
THOMAS, THOMAS (1805 - 1881), Baptist minister and college principal , London, on 18 July, 1828. In 1836 he accepted a dual call to Pontypool - the presidency of a new Baptist College (transferred from Abergavenny) and the pastorate of a projected English Baptist church (now, since 1847, in Crane Street). In both spheres he wrought magnificently, and exercised an enduring influence. Relinquishing his pastorate in December 1873, and his presidency in December 1876, he
THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons burning issue in south Wales as many miners' homes were in danger of reverting to the ownership of the coalowners. Success eventually came with legislation passed in 1967. Thomas had felt so strongly about the issue that at one time he had taken a stall in Cardiff market to publicize the cause. There was a real possibility that Thomas, by now regarded as an accomplished chairman, might have become
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1694 - 1751), cleric and scholar Timothy Thomas; in this letter Williams refers to William Thomas as ' Gwilym Gwalstawd Ieithoedd,' which suggests that he was a good linguist (B.M. Harl. MS. 7013). In B.M. Harl. MS. 7526 is a list of volumes in the library of the first earl of Oxford which Timothy Thomas was reclaiming; among them was a manuscript, ' The Statutes of St. Davids ' (now B.M. Harl. MS. 6280), which Thomas had borrowed from
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1727 - 1795), schoolmaster and diarist Born 29 July 1727, son (it seems) of a William Thomas of St. Fagans, Glamorganshire. He was probably the 'William Thomas, Charity-school Master' who wrote a manuscript of hymns and other matter, now in the C.M. Archives kept at N.L.W., and who is said to have kept school at one time at Llandybïe, Carmarthenshire - he is known to have kept schools in various south-eastern parishes of Glamorgan in
THOMPSON, DAVID (1770 - 1857), colonial surveyor and explorer in British North America influence of the company's surveyor, Philip Turnor, who taught him the elements of astronomy and of triangulation. Surveying and exploration now became his passion, despite the company's disapproval; he learned several Indigenous languages, and 'with Bible and sextant in hand' (he was also an aggressive 'teetotaller') he diligently explored and mapped. With two Ojibwe guides, he surveyed a shorter route
TOY, HUMFREY (d. 1575), merchant , that William Salesbury took up residence in Humfrey Toy the printer's house in London in 1567, in order to see through the press his Welsh translation of the New Testament and that Humfrey Toy printed, in the same year, the second edition of Salesbury's A playne and a familiar Introduction, teaching how to pronounce the Letters in the Brytishe Tongue, now commonly called Welshe; at the end of the
TRAHERNE, JOHN MONTGOMERY (1788 - 1860), antiquary daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot, Margam; note that there is evidence that he delved deeply into the Margam muniments (now in N.L.W.); his wife was also deeply interested in history and literature. About 1823 he demolished the old house at Coedriglan on the ridge land, and erected a most gracious Regency house on the lower slopes of the hill, which is still happily in the possession of his successors
TREVITHICK, RICHARD (1771 - 1833), engineer tramway, then recently erected to convey the manufactured iron from the Penydarren, Dowlais, and Plymouth Works to the Basin or Navigation (now called Abercynon) and so avoid the canal, then largely owned and controlled by their competitor, Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa. By 13 February 1804, the steam engine was completed, and Trevithick wrote, ' We put it on the tramway. It worked very well. … ' By 20

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