Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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. 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
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, Sir WILLIAM JAMES (1867 - 1945), BARONET, coalowner, philanthropist after his removal to Cardiff. He married in 1917 Maud Mary, eldest daughter of George Cooper, of Bexhill-on-Sea and deputy matron of Cardiff Royal Infirmary. Sir William died 3 January 1945 and was buried at the Cardiff Cemetery.
THOMAS, WILLIAM JENKYN (1870 - 1959), schoolmaster and author year to consider rewriting history books. He was harsh in his criticism of universities and the state for their reluctance in awarding worthy honours to teachers. David Lloyd George paid tribute to him in a preface to a souvenir booklet in celebration of his thirty years' headship at Hackney Downs. In 1893 he published a collection of penillion to be sung to harp accompaniment, and with E. Doughty

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