Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, HENRY (1712 - 1802), Methodist exhorter and Independent minister district used to meet. Howel Harris frequently visited Gelli, where some Associations were held. Henry Thomas sided with Harris in the split between him and the other revivalists, but later on abandoned him. He was ordained c. 1752 according to the rites of the Independents, and converted the society into an Independent church. He continued to minister to the congregation at Godre'r Rhos - the name by
THOMAS, JAMES HENRY (1874 - 1949), politician and Labour leader
THOMAS, SIR JAMES WILLIAM TUDOR (1893 - 1976), ophthalmic surgeon of penicillin, Sir Henry Dale, the Nobel Prizewinner and Sir Russell Brock, one of the pioneers of open heart surgery. Among presidential positions that came his way during his later years were those of the British Medical Students' Association (1957/8), the Cardiff Medical Old Students' Association (he became inaugural president in 1958 and presented the society with a fine badge of office) and
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist . Davies, Director of Education, and his successor Edward Rees. At this time she lived at Arwynfa, Borthyn, Ruthin, and by 1935 she is registered as living at Llwyni, Llanfair Road, Ruthin. The occupants are noted as Emily, Louie Myfanwy, Mary and William Henry Davies. W.H. Davies, a Meth. lay-preacher, was her father's brother, his wife was Mary and their daughter Emily. Myfanwy lived there for some
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman to Henry James and a writer herself who became Time and Tide's literary editor. They were based in Surrey though the indefatigable Lady Rhondda spent most of the week working in London. Her last years were difficult as she battled with the paper's rising costs and ill health. Despite her father's politics, disillusionment with the Liberal Party over its stand on suffrage had led her to repudiate
THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian eisteddfod of 1931, Morris Thomas won first prize with his novel Pen yr Yrfa, published in the office of the Goleuad in Caernarfon in 1932. He was considered to be a good historian, and he was appointed to write the history of the Llŷn and Eifionydd Presbytery, left unfinished by Henry Hughes, Bryncir. According to his own account, he tired of the work and the task of trying to make sense of Henry Hughes
THOMAS, OWEN (1812 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author ), two volumes which include a review of the history of theology and preaching in Wales; Cofiant y Parch. Henry Rees, two volumes (Wrexham, 1890); Cyfieithiad o draethawd y Parch. Thomas Watson ar Sancteiddhad, and extracts from the works of other authors (Llanrwst, 1839); Esboniad ar y Testament Newydd (1862-85), which is a translation of Dr. Kitto's commentary with additional notes - the commentaries
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant regiment in which his son was a senior officer. He married Margaret Ethel, daughter of Henry Turner of Penarth, in 1906, and they had one son and three daughters. She died in 1953. In 1961 he was seriously ill, and after a brief period as consultant to the practice, he retired in 1963. His health was fragile for the rest of his life, and he died 19 August 1969. Besides his own specialised field, society
THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD (1878 - 1917), poet Born 3 March 1878, at Lambeth, son of Philip Henry Thomas, Tredegar, clerk in the civil service, and Mary Elizabeth (née Townsend). He was educated at S. Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford, 1898-1900, and early showed his love of the countryside, unspoiled people, and literature. He married Helen Berenice Noble, 20 June 1899; there were three children: Mervyn, born 1900, Bronwen 1904, and
THOMAS, RHYS (1720? - 1790), printer until 1794, and then from London, John Walters having secured the help of Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) to bring this about. Rhys Thomas had died four years previously; he was buried at Llandough on 11 July 1790. He was followed at Cowbridge by HENRY WALTERS (1766 - 1829), third son of the lexicographer. Walters printed but little, and on 6 February 1791, sold the press and the type to JOHN BIRD (died 1840
THOMAS, ROBERT (d. 2 April 1692), Puritan preacher Baptists as well as Independents; three years before that, in March 1666, he had founded a church, binding the members closely together by covenant which became famous in turn as the congregation of Cilfwnwr, Tirdoncyn, and Mynyddbach, the members coming from Llangyfelach and the adjoining parishes. He received a licence to preach at his own house in Baglan under the Indulgence of 1672, and Henry Maurice
THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850 - 1885), metallurgist and inventor resultant steel was brittle; Sir Henry Bessemer and other experimentalists spent years in an attempt to overcome the difficulty. Towards the end of 1875 Thomas succeeded in reaching a provisional solution (details in D.N.B.). He communicated the details to his cousin Percy Gilchrist, then chemist to a large iron-works at Blaenavon, Monmouth, and both men conducted further experiments. In 1878 Thomas

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