Career
Elected as Portreeve of Swansea in 1757, 1762 (alongside Christopher Rogers and John Gwyther), 1763, 1768 (as deputy to William Powell) and finally in 1772 (with Phillip Rogers as his deputy). He died in Swansea on September 13, 1781 and is buried at Saint Mary"s Churchyard. His headstone was subsequently destroyed during the "Three Nights Blitz" of Swansea in 1941 by the German Luftwaffe.
Saint Mary"s Sextons book of memorial inscriptions of 1857 says his headstone read as follows:
Sacred to the memory of James Thomas, alderman of this town who died September 13th 1781 aged 71 years.
