Taylor, James (d.1800)
Tried at the Montgomeryshire Great Sessions in 1800 for utter forgery and executed. In the parish of Pool on 10 March 1800 he counterfeited and forged 8 Bank notes of value £10 each with intent to defraud the Bank of England. Local press reported his execution for forgery. His sister was executed at Warwick for a similar offence.
[Mossop; County Archives Office M/QS]
[Mossop; County Archives Office M/QS]
Taylor, Oliver David Shepston (1869-1945)
Footballer from Newtown. He won 4 international caps for Wales 1893-1894 while playing full back for Newtown. Perhaps the most notable match in which Taylor participated in for Newtown was the club's first round FA Cup tie against Liverpool. He was the manager of the Newtown gas works before going into business as a retail and wholesale tobacconist and confectioner. A keen golfer and cricketer, he was also at one time chairman of the North Wales Hockey Association.
[Davies & Garland]
[Davies & Garland]
Teme Valley Hunt
Kennels: Knighton, Radnorshire. Couple of hounds: 20. Master: Mr S Dent. Huntsman: The Master. Whippers in: Brig-Gen RJ Bridgford CB DSO, C Comins kh. Secretary: Capt JRH Harley, Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire. Hunting days: Tuesday, Friday. Description of Country "The country extends to the NW of Knighton, but the country to the East of Knighton, stretching into Herefordshire and Shropshire is also hunted by this pack. The NW and hilly country being the Friday meet and the lower country the Tuesday meet". Hunting centres: Knighton. Principal Meets: Adforten, Aymestry Finger Post, Bedstone House, Beguildy, Blaencwm Gate, Brampton Bryan Hall, Broadward Hall, Bryndraenog, Coston Manor, Cringoed Railway Bridge, Cwm Heyop House, Dairy farm Lingen Felindre, Gwernafel, Hagley Gate, Heath House, Knighton Town Clock, Knucklas, Lawn Turn, Lingen Hall, Llanbister, Monaughty, Nant-y-groes, Norton Arms Hotel Knighton, Old Hall Inn Dolau, Parson Pole Bridge Brampton Bryan, Rhos Finger Post, Severn Arms Hotel Penybont, Sitwell Arms Hotel Bucknell, Stanage Park, Stow, The Brook House, The Cross of the Tree, The Manor House Brampton Bryan, The Milebrook, Wigmore Village, Willey Chapel.
[The foxhunters' yearbook 1930-1931]
[The foxhunters' yearbook 1930-1931]
Thomas, Capt. E. Aubrey
Having qualified as a magistrate at the Mid-Summer Assize of 1896 he spent 54 years of service unequalled as a magistrate for Radnorshire, then 2 years for Breconshire before his retirement. For 38 years he was chairman of the Colwyn Bench and since 1920 chairman of the Builth Bench.
[Un-named newspaper cutting dated 1950]
[Un-named newspaper cutting dated 1950]
Thomas, David "Papa Thomas" (1794-1882)
David Thomas was born at Ty Llwyd farm in the hamlet of Wern-Ddu between Pontardawe and Neath. After a local education he worked on his father’s farm until 1812 when he commenced work at the Neath Abbey Ironworks. In 1817 he transferred at the age of 23 to the Ynyscedwyn Ironworks (q.v.) where he stayed for the next 22 years building a reputation as an ironmaster of note. It was here that Thomas experimented with ways of using local anthracite instead of bituminous coal brought in by pack animal or canal. At first he met with little success but after the invention by James Beaumont Nielson in 1828 of a hot-blast system using coke, he persuaded mine owner George Crane to invest in further experimentation. From 1836 one furnace at Ynyscedwyn was converted to a hot-blast system using anthracite. He thus produced the first anthracite iron in the world and soon had six furnaces using this technique. An Ynyscedwyn iron pig of this type was exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851.
News of this development interested the Pennsylvania industrialists who had large anthracite deposits in that state. After one of their number visited Ynyscedwyn in 1838, the directors of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company offered David Thomas an opportunity to develop an ironworks in Pennsylvania. Thomas emigrated with his family in June 1839 settling in the town of Catasauqua and had the first anthracite furnace in America working at Pottsville in January 1840. He was so successful that he founded his own Thomas Iron Company at Hokenauqua which soon became the biggest anthracite iron producer in the USA. By 1856 half the iron produced in the USA was produced using his methods first developed in Breconshire. By 1864 the USA was producing more iron than South Wales. Thomas was president of the American Ironmasters Convention in 1874 and widely revered as the founding father of the American iron industry. This accounts for the affectionate nickname Papa Thomas. A furnace museum at Lock Ridge in the Lehigh Valley commemorates his work. He was widely respected in his home community of Catasauqua being elected the first burgess of the town when it achieved incorporation, and running - albeit unsuccessfully- for Congress in 1866.
[Leaflet produced by Swansea Canal Society; DEW]
News of this development interested the Pennsylvania industrialists who had large anthracite deposits in that state. After one of their number visited Ynyscedwyn in 1838, the directors of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company offered David Thomas an opportunity to develop an ironworks in Pennsylvania. Thomas emigrated with his family in June 1839 settling in the town of Catasauqua and had the first anthracite furnace in America working at Pottsville in January 1840. He was so successful that he founded his own Thomas Iron Company at Hokenauqua which soon became the biggest anthracite iron producer in the USA. By 1856 half the iron produced in the USA was produced using his methods first developed in Breconshire. By 1864 the USA was producing more iron than South Wales. Thomas was president of the American Ironmasters Convention in 1874 and widely revered as the founding father of the American iron industry. This accounts for the affectionate nickname Papa Thomas. A furnace museum at Lock Ridge in the Lehigh Valley commemorates his work. He was widely respected in his home community of Catasauqua being elected the first burgess of the town when it achieved incorporation, and running - albeit unsuccessfully- for Congress in 1866.
[Leaflet produced by Swansea Canal Society; DEW]
Thomas, David Sidney (1919- )
Footballer (b Machynlleth 12 November 1919). 4 international caps for Wales 1948-1949. Outside right (circa 1930s-1951) for: Machynlleth; Fulham; and Bristol City. Sid Thomas was an ex-baker's boy, who was spotted by a Fulham scout in 1938. He joined the RAF at the outbreak of war, and was able to play a lot of football while stationed in the Gold Coast. On demob, he returned to Fulham. He fell ill with tuberculosis and was forced into premature retirement. Thomas subsequently returned to Machynlleth and eventually resumed work in the family bakery.
[Davies & Garland]
[Davies & Garland]
Thomas, Eliza (fl.1847)
Of Pool Quay, Montgomeryshire. 21 years old. She was apprehended at the Ardllin public house, with £11 of the money on her, including a Knighton Bank five pound note. With a male accomplice (not caught) she took £16 from Farmer Thomas Davies, Guilsfield, who was returning home after selling his cattle at a fair in Welshpool. John Richards, his son-in-law gave evidence at her trial at Montgomeryshire Quarter Sessions January 1847. She was sentenced to 10 years transportation and travelled on the convict ship Cadet to Van Diemen's Land.
[Beddoe; MQS]
[Beddoe; MQS]
Thomas, Henry Edgar (d.1909)
Solicitor, Clerk of the Peace for Breconshire (1883-1889), Clerk of the Peace and of the County Council of Breconshire (1889-1909).
[Stephens]
[Stephens]