Thomas, Hugh Owen (1834–1891), orthopaedic surgeon, was born on 23 August 1834 in Bodedern, Anglesey, the eldest child in the family of five sons and two daughters of Evan Thomas (1804–1884), a bone-setter, of Liverpool, and his wife, Jane, née Owen. His father was seventh in a line of bone-setters descended from a farming family in ...
