Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, JOHN (1838 - 1905), photographer (died 1895); they had four children: Jane Claudia, afterwards Mrs. Hugh Lloyd (1863 - 1934), William Thelwall, Robert Arthur (1866 - 1932), and Albert Ivor (1870 - 1911, a medical man). He died 14 October 1905, and was buried in Anfield cemetery, Liverpool.
THOMAS, Sir PERCY EDWARD (1883 - 1969), architect and planning consultant years he was searching for a more responsible post and answered an advertisement which had a box number only. To his surprise he found himself back with J.C. Prestwich, but as a chief assistant. He moved again in 1906 to Henthorne Stott in Manchester. He collaborated with Ivor Jones of Cardiff in open competitions, and in 1911 they won the prize for designing a technical college in Cardiff. This gave
THOMAS, PERCY GORONWY (1875 - 1954), professor of English of John Ivor Jones, Llangollen and Colombia, South America, and they had two sons. They lived at Winfrith, 26 Forty Avenue, Wembley Park, Middlesex, where he died 28 May 1954.
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress the radio, for instance in Choir Practice: A storm in a Welsh teacup by Cliff Gordon, which was broadcast from Maida Vale in 1946, with Ivor Novello in the main role as the conductor of the quarrelsome choir, and a cast which also included Glynis Johns and Mervyn Johns. In 1939 she appeared in her first film, The Proud Valley (Tennyson, 1939) in which she first played the role of the Welsh Mam, the
WILLIAMS, DAVID PRYSE (Brythonydd; 1878 - 1952), minister (B), writer, and historian Born 1 March 1878 and brought up in Y Wenallt, parish of Troed-yr-aur (Trefdreyr), Cardiganshire. His father Ivor Pryse Williams (1850 - 1920) was the son of the writer priest Benjamin Williams ('Gwynionydd '; 1821 - 1891) and his mother Elizabeth the daughter of a Baptist family of Bethel church, Dre-fach Felindre, whose two brothers, David Phillip Jones (1850 - 1884), Felin-gwm and Llanfynydd
WILLIAMS, MARGARET LINDSAY (1888 - 1960), artist ', 1924. Among her early works are landscapes and titled paintings, some revealing an unusual and original imagination, such as 'The devil's daughter' and 'The triumph' which were exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1917. Nevertheless, she inclined more and more to portraiture after the war and among her sitters were clients as varied as Henry Ford, Field Marshall Slim and Ivor Novello, as well as many
WILLIAMS, OWEN (1774 - after 1827), musician . Novello. In 1827 he produced The Harp of David King of Israel or Royal Psalm of Zion. This last publication has also some account of his life, the author saying, for example that, through the influence of Charles W. Williams Wynn, M.P., he obtained a post in His Majesty's Stamp and Tax Office January 1827, which was ' to him then as life from the dead.' He appears to have become very poor in his last
WYNNE, ELLIS (1670/1 - 1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic /2. It used to be thought that he left Oxford without graduating, but more recent evidence (A. Ivor Pryce, The Diocese of Bangor during three centuries and N.L.W. Vivian MS. 31) seems to point to graduation (B.A., afterwards M.A.). Degree or no degree, there is abundant evidence that the author of Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc was a man of superior education and much culture. Local tradition suggests

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