Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SION DAFYDD ap SIENCYN, poet A poet of this name flourished in the time of Edmund Prys (1544 - 1623). Poems attributed to him are found in Esgair MS. 26; Brogyntyn MS. 2; Cwrtmawr MS 11B, Cwrtmawr MS 27E, Cwrtmawr MS 70D, Cwrtmawr MS 129B; NLW MS 2692B; NLW MS 3047C; Peniarth MS 239; Llanstephan MS 156; Cardiff MSS. 19, 48, 64, 66; Jes. Coll. MS. 17; and B.M. Add. MS. 12230.
SKEEL, CAROLINE ANNE JAMES (1872 - 1951), historian Studies, ed. R.W. Seton-Watson (1924), and to T. Auden, Memorials of Old Shropshire (1908). She gained the Gamble Prize in 1914 for an essay on the influence of the writings of Sir John Fortesque. She was also one of the editors of the S.P.C.K. texts for students and arranged the Selections from Giraldus Cambrensis and the Selections from Matthew Paris, Nos. 2-3 in that series (London 1918). The
SLINGSBY-JENKINS, THOMAS DAVID (1872 - 1955), secretary of a shipping company and philanthropist 1940. He changed his name to Slingsby-Jenkins on his marriage (1), c. 1937, to Roma Beatrice Evlyn Marie Slingsby (died 7 February 1948), and they made their home in 9 Victoria Square, London and Devil's Bridge, Cardiganshire. He married (2) in Italy Margherita Vita, grand-daughter of a friend, shortly before he died at her home in Imperia, 5 April 1955.
SMITH, THOMAS ASSHETON (1752 - 1828) Vaenol, Bangor, landed proprietor and quarry owner Born 1752, the son of Thomas Assheton of Ashley, Cheshire, he added the name Smith to his surname when he inherited the Vaenol and Tedworth (Hampshire), estates under the will of his uncle, William Smith, son of John Smith, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1705-8. The story of how the Vaenol estate - the ancient patrimony of a branch of the Williams family of Cochwillan - came into the hands of a
SOMERSET family Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, CHARLES SOMERSET 1st Somerset earl of Worcester (1460? - 1526) The illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd duke of Somerset, beheaded by the Yorkists (1463). He was a staunch supporter of Henry Tudor, who from the beginning of his reign as Henry VII employed him about court and abroad, admitting him to the Privy Council on 14 February 1505. His advancement in Wales dates from his marriage (2 June
SPARK, THOMAS (1655 - 1692), cleric and classical scholar son of Archibald Spark, minister of Northop, Flintshire. Educated at Westminster School, he was in 1672 elected to a scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1676, M.A. 1679, B.D. 1687/8, and D.D. 1691. In 1682 he was chosen to deliver the first Bodley oration. He became chaplain to Sir George Jeffreys, and in 1686 he was given the prebend of Offley in the cathedral of
SPEED, GARY ANDREW (1969 - 2011), footballer Gary Speed was born on 8 September 1969 in the local hospital at Mancot, Flintshire, the second of two children born to Roger Speed (born 1943) and Carol Speed (née Huxley, 1945), who were both born in Chester. Gary's sister Lesley Ann was born in Chester in 1967. Roger Speed worked for Vauxhall car manufacturers at Ellesmere Port and then as a fireman. Gary was brought up at the family home in
SPINETTI, VITTORIO GIORGIO ANDRE (1929 - 2012), actor, director and author Victor Spinetti was born on 2 September 1929 in Marine Street, Cwm near Ebbw Vale, the eldest of six children of Giuseppe Spinetti and his wife Lily (née Watson). His father opened a fish and chip shop there in 1926, and all of the children were born in the accommodation above the shop. Spinetti's grandfather Giorgio had walked from Bari in Italy to Wales to get work in the mines. Spinetti showed
STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author 1852. He married (1), 17 November 1835, Hannah (3 September 1814 - 2 August 1842), fourth child of Joseph Harris (Gomer); (2), 6 December 1843, Mary Wilson, daughter of David Morgan, Swansea. Stephen was a prominent preacher, but is best remembered for his literary and theological works. He published (1) Dwyfoliaeth … Iesu Grist … Pregeth, 1834; (2) Ffurf Priodas Ymneillduwyr, 1838 (with D. Rees
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet captain from Borth-y-Gest. They had three children, (2) in Caxton Hall, London, on 8 January 1942, to Mary Elizabeth Owen, widow of Captain Ralph D. Owen, army officer, and daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth Thomas, Gelli Haf, Maesycwmmer. The Gelli Haf family was very famous in Monmouthshire, and connected in some way with the family of William Thomas ('Islwyn'). After his second marriage, he began to
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator serious student of Welsh literature and culture will find themselves consulting his works. His contribution to the nation's literature was immense. Meic Stephens died in Cardiff on 2 July 2018. His funeral service was held at Crwys Chapel and Thornhill Crematorium, Cardiff, on 20 July.
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer at an explosion at the Crawshay Gethin Pit No. 2 in 1862, he instigated a relief fund, and collected and distributed money until the day before he died. He was a close friend of and political campaigner for H. A. Bruce, Lord Aberdare, Liberal MP for Merthyr Tydfil between 1852 and 1868, and served as High Constable of Merthyr in 1858. Thomas Stephens's talent and style as a social critic and

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