Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer father of Llewelyn Edouard (1939-2000) and Aeronwy Bryn (1943-2009), his hope was to earn a living at home in Wales. The wartime work for film and radio had helped in that respect, but had also meant his living within easy reach of London. Between 1946 and 1949, the family lived in or near Oxford, with visits to Ireland, Italy and Prague. But wherever he was, Thomas never stopped working on poems
THOMAS, ISAAC (1911 - 2004), minister (Independents) and college lecturer the BD course and to prepare for the ministry. Because he was forced to spend nearly a year in the Sanatorium at Talgarth recuperating from tuberculosis he was not able to complete his course of study until 1938. In that year he was ordained as minister at Bethania, Treorchy. In 1943 he was appointed as a part-time lecturer in Church History at the Memorial College, Brecon, and he became a full-time
THOMAS, JAMES PURDON LEWES (VISCOUNT CILCENNIN), (1903 - 1960), M.P. private secretary in a number of ministries, 1930-40, and was Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1940-43; Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1943-45; and First Lord of the Admiralty, 1951-56. He was vice-chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party, 1945-51, and chairman of the Governing Body of Rugby School, 1958. He was elevated Viscount Cilcennin in 1955 and knighted (K.St.J.) in 1958. His book
THOMAS, MANSEL TREHARNE (1909 - 1986), composer, conductor, BBC Wales Head of Music considerable aspect of his prowess during his years at the BBC, as was his remarkable inclination for song writing and choral composition not only in this early period but throughout his composing career. Mansel Thomas joined the BBC in Cardiff in 1936 as music assistant and deputy conductor of the newly-formed BBC Welsh Orchestra. Following war service in the Royal Army Service Corps, 1943-46, he resumed
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant Glamorgan Home Guard. In 1943 he was elected president of the R.I.B.A. for the second time, the only precedent being Sir William Tite in 1867. He served the council for two years and was elected for a further year in 1945, thus holding the presidency for five years. He was mainly responsible for reconciling the interests of private practitioners and the official body of architects, who were by now in the
THOMAS, SIMON (d. 1743?), Presbyterian minister and author ministers) of the local congregation, for in that month he was one of the witnesses to the will of his senior co-minister, John Weaver (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1943, 105). His first and best-known book was Hanes y Byd a'r Amseroedd, 1718, a kind of encyclopaedia with a distinct anti-Papal bias, which was very popular, being reprinted three times (1721, 1724, 1728) in his
THOMAS, THOMAS JACOB (Sarnicol; 1873 - 1945), schoolmaster, writer and poet neighbourhood. His wife survived him. He won the chair at the Abergavenny national eisteddfod in 1913 with his ode ' Aelwyd y Cymro ', and was in competition for the chair in London, 1909, Colwyn Bay, 1910, Wrexham, 1912, and Birkenhead, 1917. His pryddest at Bangor in 1931 was placed among the first three. He was one of the adjudicators of the awdl at Llanelli, 1930, and Bangor, 1943. He contributed much in
TRUEMAN, Sir ARTHUR ELIJAH (1894 - 1956), Professor of geology of the University Grants Committee in the very important transition years of the universities from war to peacetime conditions with the resultant great expansion. He was chairman of the Geological Survey Board, 1943-54, again during the period of postwar expansion of the Survey, when work in the British coalfields was greatly intensified. In 1945-47 he was president of the Geological Society of
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist he was welcomed back to his ministry after his release from prison. Valentine was invited in October 1943 to become minister of Sïon chapel in Ponciau near Wrexham. He refused that invitation, but when a call came to Penuel chapel in Rhosllannerchgrugog in 1947 he decided after much deliberation to accept it. It was a big change for the family to move from the town of Llandudno to the mining
VAN HEYNINGEN, RUTH ELEANOR (1917 - 2019), biochemist was six and her maternal grandfather was a strong influence on her early life. After attending primary school in Newport, Ruth went to Cheltenham Ladies' College and then to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she graduated in biochemistry in 1940. In the same year she married William Edward 'Kits' van Heyningen (1911-1989), a biochemist from South Africa. They had two children, Simon (b. 1943) who
VAUGHAN, JOHN (1871 - 1956), general Guard during World War II, and was Deputy Lieutenant of Merionethshire from 1943 until 1954. He also served as a J.P. for the county. He published a volume of reminiscences entitled Cavalry and sporting memoirs (1955), where he was harsh in his condemnation of David Lloyd George's leadership during World War I. He was much interested in fishing and hunting. Vaughan married on 22 October 1913 Louisa
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure became well known, as he was the first BBC reporter to fly in a Lancaster bomber on a night raid on Berlin in 1943. He described in detail the whole of the action and gave the listeners at home an idea of the dangers faced by the pilots of the RAF. Later, similar graphic descriptions and details of the situation characterised his reports from Italy on the Anzio beachhead (he wrote a volume on the

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