Percy Thomas Partnership was the trading name of the award-winning British architectural practice established some time between 1965 and 1973 as the successor to a series of earlier partnerships originally set up by Percy Thomas (1883–1969) in Cardiff, Wales in 1911/12. Percy Thomas and the Percy Thomas Partnership put their name to a number of landmark buildings in the United Kingdom including the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. It opened offices overseas and completed a number of prestigious buildings in Hong Kong. Percy Thomas Partnership came to an end in 2004 when they went into administration and were bought by Capita Group. History Percy Edward Thomas was born in the northeast of England in 1883, but was well-travelled and started work as at a young age in Cardiff, Wales. He was articled to study architecture, and won the National Eisteddfod of Wales architecture competition in 1903. He returned to England to work, but began collaborating with Ivor Jones of Cardiff, in architectural competitions. In 1911 they won the competition to design Cardiff's new Technical College (now known as the Bute Building), and Thomas returned to Cardiff to work in partnership with Jones. Percy Thomas's architectural practice was set up in 1911/12. During the 1920s and 1930s the practice won a large number of commissions to design important civic buildings in Wales and England, including county offices for Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire, Lord Davies' Temple of Peace, Swansea Civic Centre, Aberystwyth University campus and a redesign of London's Euston Station. The partnership with Ivor Jones was amicably dissolved in 1937. In 1946 Percy Thomas was knighted. In the same year Percy Thomas's son Norman joined the practice – which became known as Sir Percy Thomas & Son. In 1952 William Marsden and Wallace Sweet joined the practice. John Francis Vergette joined (in Swansea) in 1955. Percy Thomas became seriously ill in 1962, retiring from the company in 1963. Percy Thomas died in 1969. In 1965 Sir Percy Thomas & Son were commissioned to design Clifton Cathedral, a new Roman Catholic cathedral for the city of Bristol. The design was by Ronald Weeks, Fred Jennett and Antoni Poremba. The cathedral was consecrated in 1973, by which time the architectural practice was known as Percy Thomas Partnership. Norman Thomas retired as chairman in 1971, becoming a consulting partner until 1976. Thomas was replaced as chairman by Fred Jennet, who initiated expansion into the Middle East