David Alfred Thomas Viscount Rhondda

D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda , died, leaving to his daughter Margaret Haig Mackworth his businesses and a fortune. In the absence of a male heir, she also inherited his title.

After attending Cambridge University , David Alfred Thomas , Margaret's father, became a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910.

D. A. Thomas , at his wife 's suggestion, invited his daughter, Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ), to work as his highly confidential secretary and . . . right-hand man in 1913 at...

Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ) headed the Thomas Newspaper business after David Thomas , her father, signed over to her his controlling interests.

Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ) and her father were aboard the Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat; both survived.

MHVR 's Liberal father , though vehemently against suffragist militancy, attended the court proceedings for both his wife's and daughter's sentencing. He said to Margaret after her mother's appearance in court that he felt very proud.

In 1909, during the height of her involvement with the WSPU , Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ) began publishing articles in praise of militancy in the Western Mail.

In Spring 1915, Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ) accompanied her father and employer, David Thomas , to Canada and the United States on a business trip. They visited coal mines in Pennsylvania and Mississippi...

MHVR inherited twenty-eight companies from her father , and she added five more to that by 1919.