T. H. Thomas

[1][2][3] Thomas was born on 31 March 1839 in Pontypool, where his father was president of the Baptist College, though his parents were from Cardiff.

He inherited his father's house on The Walk in 1880 and this became a place for intellectual discussion in the town.

[4] He became very active in the Cardiff Naturalists Society (being president for a while[5]), the Cambrian Academy of Art and the Welsh National Eisteddfod.

[7] Because of his interest in geology, he discovered an important dinosaur fossil which was unknown to science of that time.

This petrifaction was found by him in a large stone stove in the Newton Nottage church' yard.