Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
THOMAS, DAVID (Dewi Hefin; 1828 - 1909), poet Awen, 1866; Blodau Hefin, 1883. He died 9 March 1909.
THOMAS, DAVID (d. 1780?), minister (Congl.) Annibynnol Cymru - in Thomas's presence; however, in the only church book extant for Llanedi (at Somerset House; commencing with 1745), Davies is called 'minister', and it was he who had custody of the meetinghouse lease. Under 28 March 1778 the church book records that 'the major part of the congregation' undertook to pay £5 annually for life to the Rev. David Thomas, our old Pastor ', but accompanying
THOMAS, DAVID ALFRED (first viscount RHONDDA), (1856 - 1918), businessman and politician, Liberal Member of Parliament (1800 - 1879), was educated at Cowbridge, became a shopkeeper at Merthyr Tydfil, but afterwards (c. 1842) turned to prospecting for coal. He married, as his second wife, Rachel, daughter of Morgan Joseph, a mining engineer of Merthyr Tydfil, and by her had seventeen children, of whom D. A. Thomas was the fifteenth, born 26 March 1856 at Ysgubor-wen Aberdare, where Samuel Thomas and his brother-in-law
THOMAS, DAVID VAUGHAN (1873 - 1934), musician Born 15 March 1873 at Ystalyfera, Glamorganshire, son of Jenkin Thomas. He took the name Vaughan in 1911 when he became a member of the Gorsedd of Bards in Carmarthen eisteddfod. He attended Watcyn Wyn's school in Ammanford, and from 1873 to 1883 the family lived in Ystalyfera, Llantrisant, Maesteg, Llangennech and Dowlais. The family moved to Pontardulais, and Vaughan Thomas received his early
THOMAS, DAVID WALTER (1829 - 1905), cleric college scholarship (he also held a Powis exhibition) he received priest's orders from bishop Bethell of Bangor in 1853. In that year he was curate of Deneio (Pwllheli) and Llannor, and chaplain at Tremadoc, 1854-5. On 13 August 1855, he became perpetual curate of Penmachno and, on 14 March 1860, vicar of S. Ann, Mynydd Llandygài, near Bangor. He remained there for thirty-four years. After a year as
THOMAS, EDWARD (Cochfarf; 1853 - 1912), carpenter, politician and Mayor of Cardiff Born 9 March 1853 in the farmhouse of Nantywith, Betws, near Maes-teg, Glamorganshire, the son of Llewellyn Thomas and his wife (the latter a member of the Bryncethin-fawr family). He was educated at a school in Betws. His father died when the boy was about 10 years of age and the family moved to Melin Ifan Ddu. In 1876 he went to Hengoed to work as a carpenter, going to Cardiff two years later

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