Richard Thomas – then a sixth form scholar at Cheltenham College – played for Glamorganshire against Breconshire at Brecon in August 1875. Batting at number three, he scored 8 and 37 and was chosen the following month to play for the West of Glamorgan against the East of the county at Merthyr Mawr House. He bagged a pair in the game and, with the Club folding at the end of the season, the match at Brecon proved to be his sole appearance for the county of his birth.
He was a member of the South Wales Cricket Club and appeared in 1876 in the Next VIII in their trial match at Swansea, besides in 1883 playing for them against Clifton. In 1879 he also played for Carmarthenshire having moved to work as a solicitor in Carmarthen where he was also Town Clerk for many years.
THOMAS, Richard Macauley
Born: Merthyr Tydfil, 6 October 1857.
Died: Craig-y-Mor, Saundersfoot, 26 August 1937.