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Lleision ap Thomas or Llyson Thomas etc. [a] (died c. 1541) was the last abbot of Neath in West Glamorgan, Wales. He was one of the most influential Cistercians in Wales in the period before the Dissolution of the Monasteries. He is widely rumoured to have settled as a farmer in the upper Swansea valley, raising a family who remain in the ...
Lewis Cobden Thomas (6 August 1865 – 14 April 1928) [1] was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Neath and Cardiff Rugby Football Club and international rugby for Wales. In 1900 he became the Mayor of Neath. [2]
A by-election was held following the elevation of the Rev. Degwel Thomas to fill a vacancy on the aldermanic bench. Charles Percival Huins, a pioneer of the Labour movement in the Neath area and a former national president of the Shop Assistants Union [4] comfortably held the seat by an unexpectedly large majority.
Rev W. Degwel Thomas (Lab, Neath) The following new aldermen were elected: H.J. Cook (Lab, Penarth) Mervyn Payne (Lab, Pencoed) By-elections.
In Neath, it was originally reposed that long-serving councillor D.G. Davies, who had been a member of the county council with a few breaks for twenty-five years, would stand again. [1] However, he ultimately stood down.
Brian Thomas (18 May 1940 – 9 July 2012) [1] was a Welsh rugby union lock, most notable for his time playing for and later managing Neath RFC. He was capped for Wales 21 times between 1964 and 1969 and was part of three Five Nations winning teams.
More than four decades after a young mother and her son were found dead in their Nebraska home, a forensic breakthrough has led to the arrest of a man long suspected in the cold case, according to ...
As his reward for his services during the conquest of Glamorgan his brother Robert FitzHamon allotted him the lordship of Neath, where Richard built Neath Castle. He is styled in one Glamorgan charter as "Constable of the Earl of Gloucester", [3] thus of Robert Fitzroy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1147), his brother's son-in-law and heir.