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Evans (SIR SAMUEL THOMAS a Welsh)

SIR SAMUEL THOMAS, a Welsh lawyer. He was born in 1859 at Skewen, Neath, and was educated in the board schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and entering politics, was elected to represent Glamorganshire (Mid. Div.) in 1890, continuing to sit in the House of Commons from that constituency till 1910. He became a King's Counsel in 1901, Recorder of Swansea 1906, Solicitor-General 1908, and a Privy Counsellor in 1910, becoming in this last year also President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Courts. He was a Justice of the Peace of Glamorganshire, Pembrokeshire and Beaconshire; Hon.

Freeman of the County Borough of Swansea, and of the Borough of Neath.

He died in 1918.