Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, ROBERT (d. 2 April 1692), Puritan preacher , in his report of 1675, assigns him an important place as Dissenting leader in Glamorgan. His name often appears in the Margam manuscripts as a person who refused to attend the parish church. In 1687 he was one of the few Welsh Nonconformists who believed in the sincerity of James II's declaration of that year; on 15 April he gave intimation to Sir Edward Mansell of Margam that he intended holding a
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, Sir ROGER (1886 - 1960), pioneer of modern agriculture
THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850 - 1885), metallurgist and inventor resultant steel was brittle; Sir Henry Bessemer and other experimentalists spent years in an attempt to overcome the difficulty. Towards the end of 1875 Thomas succeeded in reaching a provisional solution (details in D.N.B.). He communicated the details to his cousin Percy Gilchrist, then chemist to a large iron-works at Blaenavon, Monmouth, and both men conducted further experiments. In 1878 Thomas
THOMAS, SIMON (d. 1743?), Presbyterian minister and author , furthermore, credits him with three English books. One of these is the History of the Cambri, 1746, described in the Cambrian Journal, iv, 328, by Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle Hill as a book 'rustically printed on coarse paper,' bearing no name of author or press, but having a hand-written inscription attributing it to the 'Rev. Simon Thomas' - who is said to have had his own private press, and to have
THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons and Michael Foot and other parliamentary colleagues like Cledwyn Hughes. His writing about them was less than charitable. In 1986 he published the much less controversial volume My Wales. He was also the chairman of the Bank of Wales, 1989-91, founded by his close friend Sir Julian Hodge. He travelled widely, receiving recognition and honours from around the world. He was also the recipient of a
THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554), Italian scholar and clerk of the Privy Council to king Edward VI His career, which was described fairly fully in the D.N.B. (in 1898) by (Sir) Daniel Lleufer Thomas, can be briefly outlined as follows: He was a Welshman from Radnorshire (Brecknock?), who was presumably educated at Oxford (a William Thomas was admitted bachelor of the canon law on 2 December 1529) and who lived for some five years in Italy (Bologna, Padua, etc.), where he wrote a defence of
THOMAS, Sir WILLIAM JAMES (1867 - 1945), BARONET, coalowner, philanthropist pits. He left the greater part of his fortune to his grandson who displayed business acumen in the management of the mines and great consideration for the workers' welfare. Sir William, who was a director of the Great Western Railway, the Barry Dock and Railway and other companies, disposed of his mining interests in 1914 to the United National Collieries Ltd. Among his public gifts were £100,000 to
TILLEY, ALBERT (1896 - 1957), mace-bearer at Brecon cathedral and local historian E.F. Morgan and Sir John Conway Lloyd he specialised in the history of the town and of his adopted county. He devoted himself to collecting material on local history, copying inscriptions in churches and cemeteries and other sources. He possessed an artistic talent and interested himself in the heraldry of the county and in the pedigrees of its families. Amongst his leisure interests was the
TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK (1855 - 1929), historian who is fully treated by V. H. Galbraith in D.N.B., 1922-30 and by Sir Maurice Powicke in Proceedings of the British Academy, 1929. Although Tout did most of his work in Manchester he is noted here since much of his work dealt with Wales and it was in Wales that it was begun. He was professor of history at St. David's College, 1881-90. In the words of Galbraith, ' his years at Lampeter were the
TRAHERNE, JOHN MONTGOMERY (1788 - 1860), antiquary . Many of his writings were anonymous or written under pseudonyms, but he gave great assistance to his friends, e.g. to L. W. Dillwyn, author of Contributions to the History of Swansea. His chief work was as editor of the Stradling Correspondence, 1870, and among others may be mentioned Historical Notices of Sir Matthew Cradock, 1840, and Lists of Knights of the Shire of Glamorgan, 1822. He was deeply
TREFGARNE, GEORGE MORGAN (1st BARON TREFGARNE of Cleddau), (1894 - 1960), barrister-at-law and politician officer to the U.S. Air Service, returning as private secretary to Sir Hamar Greenwood (1919-21). A versatile and vigorous man, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1923 and was at the same time London editor of the Daily Despatch, resigning after two years when he became M.P. (L.) for South Hackney, 1924-29. In 1928 he went to Nigeria as a member of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation to inquire

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