David Thomas (educationalist)

David Thomas (1880 to 1967) was a Welsh educationalist, Welsh language writer and Labour Party pioneer in Wales. He was born in Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire, and taught mainly in Wales, beginning as a non-certificated teacher and obtaining a teacher's certificate in 1905. He was active in the Labour Party and the labour movement in North Wales, and his first book, Y Werin a'i Theyrnas (The People and Their Kingdom), published in 1910, was influential among trade unionists and Welsh Labour members. His career joins classroom teaching with political and social reform in Wales.