Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SUNDERLAND, ERIC (1930 - 2010), academic Eric Sunderland was born in Blaenau near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire on 18 March 1930, the second son of Leonard Sunderland (1898-1990), Sanitary Inspector to Amman Valley Council, and his wife Mary Agnes (née Davies 1901-1997). His elder brother was Terence Raymond Sunderland (1921-2012). Eric was educated at Amman Valley Grammar School; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1947-50), BA
SYMMONS family Llanstinan, (20 March), retaining the seat until 1761. He gave financial help towards restoring Cardigan church and towards recasting and setting up the bells, 1748 (Meyrick, Cardiganshire). He was joint secretary of the Society of Sea Serjeants at their meeting held at Swansea on 13 June 1752. It is believed that he was the John Symmons who died 7 November 1771, at George Street, Hanover Square, London. He was
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, in the parliaments of February–March 1553, September–December 1553, and 1571; and the county of Denbigh from 1563 to 1567. He was high sheriff of Denbighshire in 1572, and also a member of the Council of the Marches. In 1576, and again in 1579, he was appointed assistant to judge John Throgmorton, and deputy-judge of the Court of the Marches in 1580 and 1584. It was while holding this last
THICKENS, JOHN (1865 - 1952), minister (Presb.), historian and author Born 9 March 1865 at Abernantcwta, Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, son of David and Sarah Thickens. His father died when he was young, and his mother moved with the family to Pentre, Rhondda Valley. There, in Nazareth chapel, he began to preach, and he trained for the ministry at Trefeca College. He was ordained in 1894, and that year he married Cecilia Evans of Dowlais (sister of Sir David W. Evans
THODAY, DAVID (1883 - 1964), botanist, university professor who, as Mary Gladys Sykes of Girton College and a research fellow of Newnham College, was author of a number of papers on botanical subjects. She was the daughter of John Thorley Sykes of Rossett, Denbighshire. They had four sons. His wife died in 1943, and he died at Llanfairfechan 30 March 1964.
THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner Gladys Thoday was born on 13 March 1884 in Chester, the first child of John Thorley Sykes (1852-1908), a cotton broker, and his wife Mary Louisa (née March, 1856-1951). She had one sister, Olive Thorley Sykes (1886-1933). The family later moved to the Sykes family home at Croes Howell near Gresford in Denbighshire. She was educated at the Queen's School, Chester, before going up at the age of
THOMAS family Wenvoe, , prince of Wales, and held the position of groom of the bedchamber to him from 1742 until the death of the prince in March 1751. The dowager princess of Wales appointed him joint treasurer of her household in October 1757. From 1761 he was a lord-commissioner of the Board of Trade; this office he exchanged in 1763 for that of surveyor general of woods and forests, which he held until his death. He
THOMAS family Coed Helen (or Alun), Aber, referred in a letter to what he had endured ' from both parties, not only since the last rising in Anglesey, but for many years before it,' and spoke of his ' extreme want of necessaries ' (N.L.W., Llanfair-Brynodol, 150). In 1651 he was able to compound for the sum of £780, the fine being later reduced to £646. He died in March 1654, leaving his eldest son and heir, RICHARD THOMAS an estate heavily
THOMAS, ALBAN (d. 1740?), cleric, poet, and translator Royal Society, London. In 1719 he graduated M.D. at Aberdeen. It was this connection with Aberdeen which led some persons in Government circles to suspect that he had Jacobite leanings; it is known that he left London suddenly in March 1722 and was obliged to stay away from the capital for some time before he could venture to return. After his return, however, he was unable to resume his medical work
THOMAS, ARTHUR SIMON (Anellydd; 1865 - 1935), cleric and writer Pembrokeshire, 1921-8; and Trefilan, 1928. He died 3 March 1935. He was an extremely industrious writer and a great supporter of the eisteddfod; he wrote for Y Geninen, Y Traethodydd, Yr Haul, and Y Llenor; he was assistant editor of Y Llan and joint editor of Yr Haul; he wrote (and translated) many hymns in both English and Welsh, including English versions of the hymns of Ann Griffiths.
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate in a report on the agricultural labourer in Wales. When the Welsh land commission was established in March 1893, he became its secretary. Over-work involved him in a serious breakdown in health, and in November 1893 he sailed for South Africa, returning to resume his duties in the following May. He produced an admirable Digest of the land commission report, and the volume of appendices to the
THOMAS, DAVID (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759 - 1822), man of letters and poet known as 'Belle Isle March') at the end of the winter of 1783-4, inviting the poets to meet at Betws Bach on Lady-day; Hywel Eryri, William Bifan, Siôn Caeronwy, Sian Parry, and others accepted the invitation, and that was the first of a series of meetings of bards in Caernarvonshire which gave Dafydd an opportunity of teaching the rules of Welsh poetry to his 'chicks,' as he called them. He gave up

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