Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman idea of a wide-ranging weekly review. She contributed to Time and Tide's content via Leaders, Middles, editorial comments and signed articles. In the early years she penned book reviews and pseudonymous theatre reviews. Her six-part series (as 'Candida') on 'Women of the Leisured Classes' resulted in a public debate with G. K. Chesterton, chaired by her friend Bernard Shaw. She wrote long literary
THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian Born 8 July 1874, in Talysarn, Dyffryn Nantlle, Caernarfonshire, the son of Robert Thomas, quarryman, and his wife. The father died when the Nantlle lake burst its banks, and 8 workmen were killed. Morris Thomas was only 12 years old, but at that age the boy had to go to work in the quarry. His minister, William Williams, saw that he was exceptionally able and gave him encouragement and
THOMAS, OWEN (1812 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author to the religious literature of Wales. He was also a profound theologian and an able commentator. His library, now housed in Bala College, is proof positive of the wide field of his studies, while his own books testify to his ability, industry, and particular genius. He died 2 August 1891 and was buried in Anfield cemetery, Liverpool. He published Cofiant y Parch. John Jones, Talysarn (Wrexham, 1874
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant him the opportunity to return to Cardiff in 1913 in partnership with Ivor Jones. His career was interrupted by World War I, when he joined the Artists' Rifles at the end of 1915. He was commissioned in the 210 Field Co., R.E. and found himself at the Somme, not in Egypt as he had hoped. He was promoted Staff Officer R.E. XIII Army Corps, was twice mentioned in despatches and won the military O.B.E
THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD (1878 - 1917), poet , went to France in February 1917, and was killed at Arras 9 April of that year. Some six months before enlisting he had begun, under the influence of Robert Frost and with the pen name 'Edward Eastaway,' to write the poems on which his fame now rests secure. His Collected Poems appeared in 1920 with a preface by Walter de la Mare. His poems and Helen Thomas's As It Was and World Without End are his
THOMAS, RICHARD (1753 - 1780), cleric, transcriber and collector of manuscripts, and genealogist ; among the latter are Peniarth MS 201 and NLW MS 42B and NLW MS 53B. Robert Williams (Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen) and Isaac Foulkes (Enw.), refer to the fact that some of Richard Thomas's genealogical manuscripts were sold to the College of Heralds, London, by E. Protheroe, M.P.; they also refer to one genealogical manuscript remaining at Rug, near Corwen, and another
THOMAS, ROBERT (d. 2 April 1692), Puritan preacher His name is associated with Neuadd Baglan in Glamorgan, and he is probably the Robert Thomas who matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, August 1658. When the Restoration came and the Act of Uniformity, he was not named among the ministers that were ejected; he was a preacher merely, unordained. In 1669 he was reported as preaching secretly to about twenty followers, those being made up of
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, ROBERT (Ap Vychan; 1809 - 1880), Independent minister and tutor, poet and man of letters
THOMAS, ROBERT (d. 1774), poet, and sexton of Llanfair Talhaearn Denbighshire
THOMAS, ROBERT (1796 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist preacher, a 'character' will be of little value unless supplemented by reading that very entertaining biography, Hanes Bywyd Robert Tomos, Llidiardau, by Owen Jones, 1869, in which will be found many of his sayings.
THOMAS, ROBERT DAVID (Iorthryn Gwynedd; 1817 - 1888), Independent minister

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