Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SIMWNT FYCHAN (c. 1530 - 1606), poet Martial on 'the happy life' with a Welsh translation in cywydd metre by Simwnt Fychan. This translation was made at the behest of his patron, Simon Thelwall, Plas-y-ward, Ruthin. He was buried, 13 April 1606, at Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd; elegies on him were composed by Siôn Phylip, Edwart ap Raff, and Thomas Evans of Hendre Forfudd
SION TUDUR (d. 1602), poet , serjeant-at-arms to Henry VIII. They had three children, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Margaret.
SKEEL, CAROLINE ANNE JAMES (1872 - 1951), historian a director of the South Australian Land Mortgage and Agency Co. Ltd. Her mother, a first cousin of her husband, was the daughter of Thomas and Martha James of Clarbeston, Pembrokeshire. Caroline was educated at a private school, then at the South Hampstead High School (c. 1884-87), the Notting Hill High School (1887-90), and Girton College, Cambridge (1891-95). She was a St. Dunstan's Exhibitioner
SKENE, WILLIAM FORBES (1809 - 1892), Scottish historian and Celtic scholar Born 7 June 1809 at Irvine, Inverness-shire, and died 29 August 1892 in Edinburgh. In 1868 he published The Four Ancient Books of Wales, containing Welsh verse from ' The Book of Aneirin ', ' The Book of Taliesin ', ' The Black Book of Carmarthen ', and part of ' The Red Book of Hergest '; the verse was translated for him by D. Silvan Evans and Robert Williams. This work was an attempt at
SLINGSBY-JENKINS, THOMAS DAVID (1872 - 1955), secretary of a shipping company and philanthropist
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
SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher , and he offered eisteddfod prizes to committees which chose his publications as test pieces. He republished popular works like ' Myfanwy ' (Joseph Parry) and ' Yr hen gerddor ' (David Pugh Evans), but he also published new pieces of high standard, including ' Bugail Aberdyfi ' (Idris Lewis), ' Paradwys y bardd ' (W. Bradwen Jones; see Jones, William Arthur above) and Saith o ganeuon and ' Berwyn ' (D
SOMERSET family Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, . Thomas Prichard, a correspondent of James Howell - while allowing the superior of the Jesuits, Robert Jones (born 1564), to live under his wife's protection at Raglan : but all his children ultimately followed their mother's faith. Thomas Wiliems of Trefriw, the lexicographer, says of him: ' ni rusia ddywedyd cymraec, a'i hymgeleddu, a'i mawrhâu yn anwylgu Frytanaidd.' HENRY SOMERSET 5th earl of
SOULSBY, Sir LLEWELLYN THOMAS GORDON (1885 - 1966), naval architect
SPARK, THOMAS (1655 - 1692), cleric and classical scholar
SPEED, GARY ANDREW (1969 - 2011), footballer medal proved to be Gary's only one at club level. On 24 May 1996 Gary married his childhood sweetheart Louise Reynolds (born 1970) at St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden. They had two sons, Edward Joseph (born 1997 in Chester) and Thomas Huw (born 1998 in Newcastle upon Tyne). In July 1996 Gary moved to Everton, his boyhood favourites, for £3.5 million. At the same time he also moved from the left wing to a
SPOONER, JAMES (1789 - 1856), railway engineer Born 1789, died Portmadoc, 18 August 1856. He came to Maentwrog from Birmingham. At the request of W. A. Madocks and afterwards of Samuel Holland, he surveyed a narrow-gauge railway from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Portmadoc, to carry slates from the quarries to the harbour. This line, called ' The Festiniog Railway,' was completed in April 1836. It became the pioneer of narrow-gauge railways

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