Sylvan Thomas, politician with a Welsh connection!

Sylvan Thomas

Becoming the first Leader of a non-Labour Council in fifty-five years. He became the youngest Mayor of the Borough at the age of thirty-eight. Leader of the Council and also a Freeman of the Borough.

Connection: Born in Wales.

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Sylvan Rees Thomas was the first Rate payers and Tenants Councillor to become the Mayor of the newly formed Borough of Afan in 1976.