Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, GEORGE ISAAC (Arfryn; 1895 - 1941), musician and composer returning to Wales he was organist of Bethany chapel, Ammanford. He conducted singing festivals, lectured and composed solos and hymn tunes. He died 31 December 1941 and was buried in the cemetery of the old chapel, Betws, on 3 January 1942.
THOMAS, HUGH OWEN (1834 - 1891), orthopaedic surgeon University in 1855; after two sessions he migrated to University College, London, for the third session. In 1857 he qualified M.R.C.S. England and proceeded to Paris to study surgery in French hospitals. On returning home he joined his father in practice for a year and then started on his own at 24 Hardy Street, Liverpool. In 1866 he acquired 11 Nelson Street, Liverpool, enlarged the house to contain two
THOMAS, IDRIS (1889 - 1962), minister (B) Born 1889, the eldest of the seven children of Jenkin and Ann Thomas, Cilfynydd, Glamorganshire. When he was six years old the family moved to Moriah, near Aberystwyth, where his grandfather, Jenkin Thomas (c. 1824 - 1865), had been a minister (B). He went to work in a shop in Aberystwyth when he was 13 years old but 3 years later he returned to the south, to Abercynon, where he was encouraged to
THOMAS, IFOR (1877 - 1918), geologist and inspector of schools Born at Commercial Place, Glanaman, Carmarthenshire, on 24 November 1877, son of Dafydd Thomas ('Trumor '; 1844 - 1916) and his wife Margaret. His father, who was a miner at Gelliceidrim colliery in the Aman Valley, was a poet, a local historian and a regular contributor to Welsh-language newspapers. His prize-winning essay Hen Gymeriadau Plwyf y Betws was published in 1894 (reprinted 1912). Ifor
THOMAS, IORWERTH RHYS (1895 - 1966), politician of the Hughes-Parry Report on the Legal Status of the Welsh Language. In 1960 he supported the Conservative government's measure to open public houses on Sundays. He married in October 1920 Annie Mary, daughter of D.J. Davies. She, too, was active in the Labour politics of the area. She died in July 1956. They had one son and one daughter. He died 3 December 1966 at his home 94 Park Road, Cwm-parc.
THOMAS, ISAAC (1911 - 2004), minister (Independents) and college lecturer completed in 1988. He wrote other books in addition: Hanes Cristnogaeth (1949), Arweiniad Byr i'r Testament Newydd (1963), Elfennau Groeg y Testament Newydd (jointly with Owen E. Evans, 1975), and Trosom Ni: Nodiadau ar Drefn y Cadw yn yr Ysgrythurau (1991). A Festschrift, Efrydiau Beiblaidd Bangor 3 (ed. Owen E. Evans), was presented to him on the occasion of his retirement in 1978. His papers are in
THOMAS, JAMES HENRY (1874 - 1949), politician and Labour leader Born 3 October 1874 at Newport, Monmouth. Little is known of his early life except that he received his elementary education at Newport national schools and that he began his working life while very young as an errand boy in a chemist's shop and then as an engine cleaner in the Newport railway yard. Later he went to Swindon and worked as a fireman. He became interested in trade union activities
THOMAS, JEFFREY (1933 - 1989), barrister and Labour\/SDP politician hobbies were watching rugby football and travelling. His political papers are in the custody of the National Library of Wales - in two groups donated by each of his wives. He lived at 60 Lamont Road, London, and conducted his practice from 3 Temple Gardens, Temple, London. He married (1) in April 1960 Margaret Jenkins B.Sc., the marriage was dissolved in 1982, and (2) Valerie Ellerington in 1987. There
THOMAS, JOHN (1821 - 1892), Independent minister, politician, and historian Born 3 February 1821 at Holyhead; Dr. Owen Thomas was his elder brother. His father originally came from Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, and his mother from Anglesey. In 1827, owing to the shortage of work his father, who was a stone-mason by trade, moved with his family to Bangor, where the boy, after spending some time under different teachers, finally went to a school kept by one Hugh
THOMAS, JOHN (1760 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist minister preach c. 1795. He was selected to be ordained at the first Methodist ordination at Llandeilo, 1811. He preached severely but very excellently; a volume of his sermons was posthumously published. He died 3 February 1849 - the last survivor of those who were ordained in 1811.
THOMAS, JOHN ROWLAND (1881 - 1965), religious leader and prominent merchant ', Dollis Hill, there was an open door for a host of Welsh people, especially ministers of the Gospel. They had 3 daughters; Morfudd, who married J. Idris Jenkins, the first minister of the Welsh Congregational church at Harrow; Gwyneth; and Eluned Marian, who emigrated to Toronto, Canada, and who was President of the North American Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association 1976-78. He died 16 April 1965.
THOMAS, JOSEPH WILLIAM (1846 - 1914), chemist the towns of Cardiff and Newport. He died suddenly in London, 3 March 1914. He was a naturalist, and left his extensive collection of insects to the National Museum of Wales.

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