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Wales glossary

Wales glossary

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Taff Vale Railway

Built between 1836 and 1841 between Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff, with Brunel as chief engineer. Subsequently, numerous branch lines were constructed – reaching Maerdy at the head of the Rhondda Fach in 1856. Construction involved the building of a substantial viaduct at Pontypridd.

Taliesin

Sixth-century poet, the author of a number of poems contained in the fourteenth-century Book of Taliesin.

Tân yn Llŷn

(‘Fire in Llŷn’). On 8 September 1936 Lewis, Saunders, D.J. Williams and Lewis Valentine  three members of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, started a fire at a government ‘bombing school’ at Penyberth on the Llŷn Peninsula. Following the failure of a Caernarfon jury to agree a verdict, the trial was reheard in London, where the three were convicted and sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment.

Tenant-in-chief

A magnate holding land directly from the king, as Llywelyn and the greater earls did.

Test and Corporation Acts

Acts of 1661, 1673 and 1678 which prevented non-Anglicans from holding public office or being on municipal corporations. The Acts were repealed in 1828.

Thomas, D. A

Later Lord Rhondda. Liberal MP, coalowner, ally of Lloyd George. Helped create Cymru Fydd – and destroy it.

Thomas, Dylan

(19141953). Swansea-born poet, dramatist and short-story writer of international standing.

Thomas, Gwyn

(1913–1981), novelist and playwright , from Porth, Rhondda.

Thomas, Ronald Stuart (R.S.)

(1913–2000), Church in Wales minister and poet from Cardiff, who lived for most of his life in north Wales.

Tithe

The tenth of a person’s income given to supporting a church in this case, the established Church of England.


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