Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, MANSEL TREHARNE (1909 - 1986), composer, conductor, BBC Wales Head of Music wrote little else of significance thereafter. He married Megan Lloyd, the Welsh cellist, in 1939 and they had two daughters, Grace and Siân. He died at Glaslyn Court Nursing Home, Gilwern, near Abergavenny on 8 January 1986 aged 76, and was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Magor, Monmouthshire on 11 January. Mansel Thomas left an enormous and invaluable legacy of compositions and almost all of
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (VISCOUNTESS RHONDDA), (1883 - 1958), author, editor and chairperson of companies Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine in 1915. After returning home she was a commissioner for the national women's service in Wales and in 1918 was made chief recruiting officer of women in Britain. When her father died she inherited the viscouncy in accordance with the arrangement made by Lloyd George when her father was elevated to the title as there was no male heir. She herself presented a
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman annually. In May 1915 she and her father returned from a business trip in the United States on the RMS Lusitania. When it was torpedoed she almost drowned but was rescued after several hours in the sea. Her father also survived but died three years later due to the pressure of ministerial work - Lloyd George had made him Food Controller - and long-term heart problems. In 1917 she had been appointed
THOMAS, NICHOLAS (d. 1741), printer and publisher In 1714 John Rogers printed at Shrewsbury, Dirgelwch …, sef Llyfr y Tri Aderyn, by Morgan Lloyd (Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd) for Nicholas Thomas and Lewis Thomas, the latter a travelling bookseller, of Llangrannog, Cardiganshire A little later, viz. in 1718, Nicholas Thomas was himself at Shrewsbury learning the craft of printing either at the office of John Rogers or that of John Rhydderch; a year
THOMAS, Sir NOAH (1720 - 1792), medical man Born in Neath in 1720, the son of Hophni Thomas, master mariner. He went to school at Oakham, and in 1738 entered S. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1742 (M.D. 1753). He settled in London, was elected F.R.S. in 1753, and obviously distinguished himself as a medical man, for he was appointed physician to George III, and was knighted in 1775. He died at Bath, 17 May 1792. His name
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress fruitful collaboration with John Hefin continued in the striking productions A Bus to Bosworth (prod./dir. John Hefin, BBC, 1976), Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (prod./dir. John Hefin, 1978), a screen adaptation by Elaine Morgan of Jack Jones's volume on Joseph Parry, the musician from Merthyr, and The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (dir. John Hefin, BBC, 1981). In this period she also
THOMAS, ROBERT (1782 - 1860), printer and publisher Robert Thomas, the son of John and Mary Thomas, was born at Rhandregynwen, on 16 November 1782 (Rhandregynwen, Llanymynech, Montgomeryshire, OS Map 118, SJ 2819; various spellings, was and still is a substantial farm on the banks of the river Vyrnwy). He married Mary Harris of Southampton at the Church of the Holy Rood, 8 January 1818 and they had two sons (William Kyffin and Robert George) and
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, SAMPSON (1739 - 1807), early Calvinistic Methodist exhorters It appears that he was a native of Tre-lech, Carmarthenshire, and that he came to Pembrokeshire on his marriage, in 1773; a person of that name, the son of a George Thomas, was christened in the parish of Tre-lech a'r Betws, 28 August 1739. He was converted in 1760, and in 1773, as already stated, he married and went to live to his wife's home near Caerfarchell, Pembrokeshire, where there was a
THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons featured regularly in her son's conversation, speeches and election addresses. These experiences prompted thoughts of retirement, but Wilson, anxious to encourage his loyal friend and supporter, offered him the position of deputy speaker of the House of Commons and Chairman of Ways and Means. In February 1976 he was to succeed Selwyn Lloyd as Speaker of the House of Commons. By temperament and experience
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1671), leader of the free-communion Baptists in the South of that county in Restoration times in 1675 is that many strict Baptists of the Abergavenny church, who did not share the belief in the imposition of hands, allied themselves with the congregation of William Thomas. Under the penal code of Clarendon the area of his activities was the central hundreds of the county, with his headquarters at Llantrisant (he had married the daughter of George Morgan of that parish). He was about the
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1813), Unitarian Baptist minister 1796, he and Griffith Jones were ordained co-pastors of Pant Teg - ironically enough, Thomas took part in the ordination service of Titus Lewis at Blaen-y-waun, Pembrokeshire, in 1797. In the schism of 1799, Thomas and the Arminian party retained possession of Pant Teg chapel, which is today one of the three chapels which alone in Wales bear the designation ' General Baptist ' - see under Evan Lloyd

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