Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, RICHARD (1753 - 1780), cleric, transcriber and collector of manuscripts, and genealogist Cymmrodorion, London, with Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) as its secretary, was seeking to arrange for the transcribing of some manuscripts which were in private custody in order that the work of historians and antiquarians and literary workers might be facilitated; Hugh Maurice, nephew of Owain Myfyr, says that the editors of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales used some of the manuscript collections of the Thomas
THOMAS, ROBERT (1796 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist preacher, a 'character' will be of little value unless supplemented by reading that very entertaining biography, Hanes Bywyd Robert Tomos, Llidiardau, by Owen Jones, 1869, in which will be found many of his sayings.
THOMAS, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1873 - 1951), politician and shipowner winning the seat at a by-election in April 1923 held following the death of Sir Owen Thomas. He continued to represent Anglesey in Parliament until May 1929 when he resigned in order to be able to give more attention to his commercial interests. His successor in the constituency was Lady Megan Lloyd George (see LLOYD GEORGE FAMILY above). He was declared bankrupt in 1930 and was not discharged until
THOMAS, THOMAS (1839 - 1888), Wesleyan minister, and miscellaneous writer Born in 1839 at Caernarvon, one of the eight children of Owen and Mary Thomas. He was apprenticed to the well-known Caernarvon printer, Hugh Humphreys, and afterwards worked in printing offices at Pwllheli and in South Wales. At Cardiff, while working there, he offered himself for the Wesleyan ministry - at first, for the foreign mission-field, but was rejected on medical grounds; he was accepted
THOMAS, THOMAS (1776 - 1847), cleric and historian death, 28 February 1847 (buried at Blaenporth 4 March). He was awarded the S. Davids prize for an essay on the study of the Hebrew language in 1810, and in 1822 he published Memoirs of Owen Glendower … with a sketch of the History of the Ancient Britons from the Conquest of Wales by Edward the First, to the present time. He helped Nicholas Carlisle and Samuel Lewis with their topographical
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet himself and his wife. According to Daniel Davies (1840 - 1916), Islwyn 'edited the Cylchgrawn, the Ymgeisydd, the Glorian, the Gwladgarwr, and the poetry columns of the Baner and Cardiff Times,' but it is difficult to know how much truth there is in this. At any rate, he edited the Welsh column in the Cardiff Times, and Glasynys (Owen Wynne Jones) and he were leader writers for the Glorian, but it was
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1809), Independent minister, and publisher published Myfyrdodau diweddaf y Parch. Mr. Baxter ar farwolaeth (trans. 1792); Arfogaeth y Gwir Gristion (a translation of a work by Gurnal and Dr. Guyse, 1794); Cyfaill i'r Cystuddiedig (J. Willison, trans. 1797); Dioddefaint Crist (Dr. Jos. Hall, trans. 1800), and Angau i Angau y 'marwolaeth Crist (Dr. J. Owen, trans.) bound together; and Cyfarwyddiadau mewn Geography (trans., 1805). He had begun to
TRAHAEARN BRYDYDD MAWR (fl. first half of the 14th century), poet In a poem in which he is satirised his pedigree is given as Trahaearn ap Goronwy, ap Rotbert, ap Bledri (R.B.H. Poetry, 1343). Certain phrases in the same poem suggest that, like Cynddelw, he was called 'Prydydd Mawr' because of his physical size (e.g. ' A giant who is offended ' and ' The son of Goronwy is bigger than I am '). In the Cambrian Biography (Owen), it is supposed that he is the same
TREVOR family Brynkynallt, and was rewarded with Irish land and office, a seat on the Irish privy council, and the title of viscount Dungannon and baron Trevor (22 August 1662). He married, as his second wife, Ann, daughter of John Lewis of Presaddfed, Anglesey, and widow of Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton, and was succeeded in the peerage by her two sons, Lewis and Mark, after whose death without offspring, it lapsed (8 November
TREW, WILLIAM JOHN (1878 - 1926), Wales and Swansea rugby centre three-quarter duties at half-back with R. M. Owen, and together they developed an attacking technique which invariably bewildered and confused their opponents. Trew captained the Swansea team on the famous occasion in December 1912, when, after Wales had lost to the South Africans, Swansea beat that famous combination by a try to nothing. A great incident in Trew's career was the demonstration following on Wales
TUDOR family Penmynydd, was Owain, grandson of Goronwy, who appears to have been the first of this branch of the family to adopt the surname Tudor, transformed into Theodore in the time of his son, RICHARD OWEN THEODORE I. This was the surname borne by all subsequent heirs with one break when a second son succeeded an older brother in the time of Elizabeth. The last of this name was RICHARD OWEN THEODORE V (fl. 1657), who

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