Ardal dynodi
Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- 1874-1934 / (Creation)
Lefel y disgrifiad
Fonds
Maint a chyfrwng
0.188 cubic metres (5 boxes, 10 volumes, 2 envelopes, 1 parcel, 1 picture, 2 rolls, 2 cases).
Ardal cyd-destun
Enw'r crëwr
Hanes bywgraffyddol
David Alfred Thomas (1856-1918), first Viscount Rhondda, was a statesman and coalowner. He was born on 26 March 1856 in Aberdare, Glamorgan, the son of Samuel and Rachel Thomas. He was educated at Dr Hudson's School, Clifton, Bristol, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1879 he went to Clydach Vale to study coal mining. In politics he was Liberal MP for Merthyr Boroughs, 1888-1910, and MP for Cardiff District of Boroughs, Jan.-Dec. 1910. He did not achieve recognition at Westminster, and was disappointed not to be granted ministerial office after the Liberals' general election landslide victory in 1906. He subsequently channelled his energies into the Cambrian collieries, amassing a vast fortune, eventually culminating in the establishment of the Cambrian Combine with a capital of £2,000,000. His capitalist zeal and management practices resulted in clashes with the leadership of the South Wales Miners' Federation. In 1915 Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions, sent him to the United States on ministry business. His success led to him being created Baron Rhondda of Llanwern in 1916 and promoted to Viscount Rhondda in 1918. He was appointed President of the Local Government Board by Lloyd George in December 1916 and became Food Minister in June 1917, overseeing the introduction of food rationing. In June 1882 Thomas married Sybil Margaret Haig of Pen Ithon, Radnorshire, and they had one daughter, Margaret, later Viscountess Rhondda. He died at his home at Llanwern, Monmouthshire, on 3 July 1918.
Hanes archifol
The archive remained in the possession of his family, who added to the papers, until 1934.
Ffynhonnell
Donated by his daughter, the Rt Hon. Margaret, Viscountess Rhondda of Llanwern, 1941.
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
Papers of D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, including letters to D. A. Thomas on political matters such as working conditions in the mining industry, education, church disestablishment, and the temperance movement, 1891-1910 (mainly 1891-1895); drafts and copies of letters from D. A. Thomas on similar subjects, 1891-1895; miscellaneous letters, 1893-1895; subject files, 1874-1917, on the coal industry, including the Cambrian Navigation Collieries, the Mining Association of Great Britain, the South Wales Liberal Federation, temperance and disestablishment; scrapbooks of press cuttings, 1894-1927, relating to Cymru Fydd, D.A Thomas, Merthyr politics and Keir Hardie, the Lusitania, and Lady Rhondda; miscellaneous items, 1897-1934, including genealogical material and congratulatory addresses to D.A.T.; circulars and memoranda.
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
Action: All records donated to the National Library of Wales have been retained..
Croniadau
Accruals are not expected.
System o drefniant
Arranged into the following: correspondence; subject files; scrapbooks of press cuttings; and miscellaneous items.
Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd
Amodau rheoli mynediad
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Usual copyright regulations apply.
Iaith y deunydd
Sgript o ddeunydd
Nodiadau iaith a sgript
English.
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
A hard copy of the catalogue is available at the National Library of Wales.
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Title compiled from content of fonds. Items postdating Viscount Rhondda's death were accumulated by his widow and daughter.
Dynodwr(dynodwyr) eraill
Virtua system control number
Project identifier
Pwyntiau mynediad
Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd
Pwyntiau mynediad Enw
- Lusitania (Steamship). (Pwnc)
- Church in Wales -- Establishment and disestablishment. (Pwnc)
- Cymru Fydd. (Pwnc)
- Mining Association of Great Britain. (Pwnc)
- South Wales Liberal Federation. (Pwnc)
- Liberal Party (Great Britain). (Pwnc)
- Thomas, D. A. (David Alfred), 1856-1918 -- Archives. (Pwnc)
- Thomas, Sybil Margaret, Viscountess Rhondda, 1857-1941. (Pwnc)
- Hardie, James Keir, 1856-1915. (Pwnc)
Pwyntiau mynediad Genre
Ardal rheolaeth disgrifiad
Dynodwr disgrifiad
Dynodwr sefydliad
Rheolau a/neu confensiynau a ddefnyddiwyd
Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.;AACR2; and LCSH
Statws
Lefel manylder disgrifiad
Dyddiadau creadigaeth adolygiad dilead
March 2003.
Iaith(ieithoedd)
- Saesneg
Sgript(iau)
Ffynonellau
Nodyn yr archifydd
Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used to compile this description: NLW, Schedule of D. A. Thomas (Viscount Rhondda) Papers; Dictionary of National Biography 1912-1922 (Oxford, 1927); Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959);