Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SALUSBURY, THOMAS (1561 - 1586), conspirator of 16 (he is not the same as the Thomas Salusbury who is mentioned by Foster, Reg. of Adm. to Gray's Inn, under the year 1573; cf. also D.N.B.). After some time at Oxford, he joined the service of the earl of Leicester, his guardian and patron, and while in London appears to have become a Roman Catholic; about 1580 he joined a group of lively young courtiers who favoured the cause of Mary, queen of
SAMUEL, EDWARD (1674 - 1748), cleric, poet, and author Ddyledswydd Dyn (Shrewsbury, 1718); (c) Prif ddledswyddau Christion : sef angenrhaid a mawrlles gweddi gyffredin a mynych gymmuno (Shrewsbury, John Rhydderch, 1722/3; 1793 ed. printed at Chester) - from the original by William Beveridge, bishop of St Asaph; the first of the two works, published together, was dedicated to judge Robert Price, Giler, Denbighshire, and the second to Watkin Williams Wynne [sic
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer ministry at Merthyr Tydfil was a great success, and he is recorded to have baptized 510 persons there in the period 1816-36. He married (1), 23 June 1815, Margaret Jenkins, a widow, of Dol-wlff, Llanwenog. Their only child, Thomas, was born 19 August 1816. She died April 1817, Thomas was lost in the docks at Bristol, 12 October 1837, and Thomas's infant daughter, Mary, was buried at Zion, 12 September
SAUNDERS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1724), divine inscription in Welsh : ' Aros a Llwydda.' He supported the S.P.C.K. and helped financially (through paying for fifty copies) and in other ways in the publication of its edition of the Welsh Bible. He published several sermons, one of which, on ' Household Government,' was translated into Welsh by Samuel Williams. His chief importance derives from his book A View of the State of Religion in the Diocese of S
SAUNDERS, EVAN (d. 1742), deacon at Undergrove, Lampeter, 26 April 1812, at the age of 81. He published Antigraphon; neu Wrthargraphiad Sion, yn achos y Cam-achwyniad a gafodd … mewn Llyfr Newydd, a elwir Amddiffyniad o'r Eglwys Grist'nogol, yn bedyddio Plant Bychain, 1780, and an elegy (Marwnad), 1791, on William Williams, Pantycelyn. His nephew, son of Thomas Saunders, was David Saunders 'II', minister at Zion chapel, Merthyr
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author Sara Maria Saunders was born in March 1864 in Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the eldest of the ten children born to landowners Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Mary (1869-1918), Annie Jane (1873-1942) an international peace campaigner, and Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Bertie (1865-1879), David Charles
SAUNDERS, WILLIAM (1806 - 1851), poet and writer Born 17 January 1806 in Gwarcwm, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire, son of Evan Saunders, farmer. After receiving education at the Castellhywel school and at Carmarthen grammar school he was apprenticed as a printer. He worked for Samuel Williams, printer, Aberystwyth, and during that period became prominent as a poet, winning prizes at eisteddfodau held in Carmarthen and elsewhere on such subjects as
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian 1910. Among his best work was chapter x (on the early works of Morgan John Rhys) contributed to the Cofiant by Dr. J. T. Griffith, and chapter xxxvi on the age of John Richard Jones, written for the Cofiant by David Williams. Shankland's sympathies, however, were catholic and comprehensive, not in any way bound in by the fences of denominations, as witness his Cofiadur article on Evan Roberts of
SHEPPARD, ARNOLD ALONZO (1908 - 1979), boxer , but on 4 April 1925, at the age of 16, he had his first professional contest against Ivor Williams of Wattstown, at the Wattstown Athletic club, winning by a first round knockout. He stood at five feet six and three quarter inches and fought at lightweight. He also fought at bantamweight, featherweight and welterweight during his career. Even though a native of Cardiff, he was often billed in his
SHORT, THOMAS VOWLER (1790 - 1872), bishop of St Asaph . He resigned his see 8 January 1870, and died 13 April 1872 at Gresford vicarage; he was buried at S. Asaph. He had married (1833) Mary, daughter of Charles Davies and widow of J.J. Conybeare. His numerous publications were on theological and educational subjects. Education was perhaps his main interest, and he contributed liberally from his official and private income towards building schools in
SIDNEY, Sir HENRY (1529 - 1586) Penshurst, Kent, president of Wales (1625) for the county; and the estate was inherited by Leicester's descendants, of whom his grandson, the well-known historical figure, ALGERNON SIDNEY (1622 - 1683) was elected on 17 July 1646, to replace the Royalist member for Cardiff (slain at Edgehill), and sat on several Glamorgan county committees. Finally Sir Henry's daughter MARY SIDNEY (1561 - 1621) married Henry Herbert, 2nd earl of
SIMON, JOHN ALLSEBROOK (1st VISCOUNT SIMON of Stackpole Elidor), (1873 - 1954), judge and politician . Many of his ensuing judgements are models of lucid and comprehensive expositions of the law. He married (1), 1899, Ethel Mary Venables (died 1902) and they had one son and two daughters; (2), 1917, Kathleen Manning (née Harvey); he died 11 January 1954. His publications include his memoirs, Retrospect (1952), and Income Tax (5 vols.; 1950).

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