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Authority record- P0335
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- 16 August 1910 - 8 March 2005
Myfanwy Thomas was the youngest of Edward and Helen Thomas's three children. She was six years old when her father was killed on the first day of the Battle of Arras, 9 April 1917. After leaving school aged 17, Myfanwy went on to work at the BBC, as the Private Secretary for publisher Harry Batsford and as Secretary to the Headmaster of Malvern Boys' College.
After the Second World War, she trained as a teacher at the Birmingham Teacher Training College before moving to Eastbury in Hampshire to be near her mother Helen. Myfanwy worked at local schools for two decades and lived at Bridge Cottage in Eastbury until she moved to East Garston in 1993.
She was a prolific letter writer and tireless promoter of her father's work, becoming President of the Edward Thomas Fellowship when if formed in 1980.
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St Paul's College student 1965 - 1968
Grandson of F S Blight, Cheltenham Training College student c.1900 - 1902
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St Paul's College student 1941 - 1943
Corporal in charge of a lewis machine gun and RP proctor for St Paul's College Home Guard during World War II. The old college tuck shop was converted into a weapon and ammunition store for the duration of the war and the boiler room, nicknamed "Hell", was the rifle range
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Son of Idris Howell Thomas, St Paul's College student 1924 - 1926
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Lecturer and Chaplain at St Paul's College
Vicar of St Luke's Church, Cheltenham
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Wife a descendant of Frederick Wilkinson Crofts, Cheltenham Training College student 1904 - 1906
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Lecturer in Divinity and Education and warden at St Paul's College and the College of St Paul and St Mary 1968 - 1986
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Rowland Leonard Watson [d. 15 November 1968], known to friends as "Watty", was a friend to Eleanor Farjeon and the descendants of the Dymock Poets. He was secretary of the fund to establish the Edward Thomas memorial at Steep. Watson was also a friend of the writer and scholar E H W Meyerstein [11 August 1889 - 12 September 1952], and became a joint executor of his will
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