Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, ZACHARIAS (1727 - 1816), Baptist minister Born at Esgair-ithri, Caeo, 13 (or 24?) August 1727, the youngest of five children born to Thomas Morgan Thomas and Jane, his wife, previously of Ty-Hen in the same parish, and brother of Joshua Thomas, Leominster and Timothy Thomas ' I,' Aberduar. He was baptized at Maes-y-berllan in 1748, during an apprenticeship at Hay, but returned and became a member at Pant Teg on the occasion of his
TIBBOTT family kept a school in the neighbourhood of Llanddowror for a time and exhorted the Methodist societies in south Carmarthenshire and north Pembrokeshire. At the Watford Association, 5-6 January 1742/3, it was resolved that he was 'to be the General Visitor of the Bands,' whilst later in the same year he was appointed to superintend the small societies which had been formed in Montgomeryshire. At an
TOMLEY, JOHN EDWARD (1874 - 1951), solicitor Born 3 February 1874 son of Robert Tomley and Esther (née Weaver), Montgomery. He was educated at Montgomery and Shrewsbury; he was articled to Charles S. Pryce, former town clerk at Montgomery, obtaining honours in the solicitors' final examination in 1901, and became a member of the local firm of Pryce, Tomley and Pryce. He served as clerk to numerous public administrative bodies in
TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK (1855 - 1929), historian Wales in D.N.B. Before Sir John Lloyd in 1893 undertook the work, Tout wrote mostly on the Welsh of the Middle Ages; but his knowledge was not confined to that period - it was he e.g. who wrote the article on Charles of Bala; note also his paper ' Wales under the Stuarts ' in Liverpool Welsh Nat. Soc. Trans., 1891-2, 24-41. The main result of his study of Welsh history was to realise (as he
TOY, HUMFREY (d. 1575), merchant owned much property in the town itself and outside it. He is mentioned in official documents as early as 1542/3, and his will, dated 1 March 1575, was proved by his son Robert on 2 May the same year. His wife, by whom he had a large family, was Jane, daughter of David ap David, who was mayor of Carmarthen in 1523. Toy was mayor in 1557. He would naturally come to know Richard Davies, bishop of S
TRAINER, JAMES (1863 - 1915?), Association footballer (the 'prince of goalkeepers') played for Wrexham when the club defeated the Druids in the Welsh Cup final in 1882-3. Later Trainer joined Bolton Great Lever Football Club, then Bolton Wanderers, and, later still, became a member of the famous Preston North End football club when this club won the Football Association Cup and League Championship in 1888-9. Trainer's first match for Preston was on 13 August 1887. He appeared in their
TREGELLES, SAMUEL PRIDEAUX (1813 - 1875), Biblical scholar and linguist on the Greek text of the New Testament; he deviated from the ' Textus Receptus.' He was known also as a poet, and the Lyra Britannica and Schaff's Christ in Song contain poems by him. In his last years he received a civil pension of £200 a year in recognition of his work. He died of paralysis at Plymouth, 24 April 1875. He published: Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation, 1836
TREHARNE, REGINALD FRANCIS (1901 - 1967), Professor of history Arthur Roberts, Tyldesley, Lancashire. She was active in the life of the town and college and was generous in her hospitality to students. She was a Justice of the Peace for many years. They had one daughter. Professor Treharne died 3 July 1967.
TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, , transactions which after searching enquiry were confirmed by Parliament in 1628 (3 Chas. I, chap. 6) and again in 1647. His concurrence in the judges' pronouncement in favour of ship money (February 1637) and their condemnation of Hampden in December, as well as his membership of the High Commission Court (December 1633), aroused the wrath of the Long Parliament, where attacks begun December 1640, issued in
TREVOR family Brynkynallt, array to Charles I of helping to rally east Denbighshire against his hereditary foe, Sir Thomas Myddelton (1586 - 1666). ARTHUR TREVOR (died c. 1666), judge Law The younger son of Sir Edward by his first wife, was trained to the law, entering Middle Temple on 3 November 1624, and being called to the Bar 10 February 1633. In 1641 he appeared on behalf of the thirteen bishops impeached by the Commons
TREVOR, JOHN (d. 1410), bishop of St Asaph also the author of a well-known work on heraldry - the Tractatus de Armis, as well as of its Welsh version - and that he translated the life of S. Martin (Buchedd Sant Marthin) into Welsh (see Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, iv, 3, 4; v, 1). E. J. Jones has also suggested that the authorship of several historical works of the period may be attributed to him (see Speculum, xii, 196 et seq

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