Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTSON, HENRY (1816 - 1888), civil engineer and railway pioneer Parliament for Shrewsbury from 1862 to 1865, and again in 1874 and 1880. In 1885 he resigned his seat and was then elected for Merioneth. Later he resigned and seceded from the Liberal party on the introduction of Gladstone's Irish Home Rule Bill. He married, 1846, Elizabeth, daughter of J. W. Dean, a London solicitor. There were four children of the marriage - one son and three daughters. Henry Robertson
ROCH, WALTER FRANCIS (1880 - 1965), politician and landowner , and continued to represent the constituency in parliament until 1918. He had also become a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1913. Although he remained on the back benches, he was a prominent member of the Liberal governments, and in 1917 was chosen a member of the Royal Commission on the Dardanelles Campaign. He was mentioned as a possible future Prime Minister, but he chose to support Asquith
RUSBRIDGE, ROSALIND (1915 - 2004), teacher and peace campaigner meetings were held in her house and she once stood in a Parliamentary election against the long-time sitting Conservative MP. She was a very active member of Horfield Baptist Church, and was said to be 'the conscience of the church', always demanding support for some cause to show that Christian faith must be lived outside the walls of the church. She represented the south-west on the national body of
SALISBURY, ENOCH ROBERT GIBBON (1819 - 1890), lawyer and bibliophile a short period (1857-9) he was Liberal Member of Parliament for Chester. He collected a very large library of books on Wales and the Marches; today, the bulk of this collection forms the ' Salisbury Library ' at Cardiff University College, but the University College at Bangor also has a good many books of Salisbury 's. His wife was a daughter of the Independent minister, Arthur Jones of Bangor
SAYCE, GEORGE ETHELBERT (1875 - 1953), journalist and newspaper proprietor chairman of the Brecon and Radnor Liberal Association. He served twice as High Sheriff of Brecknockshire (in 1940-41 and 1947-48) and was Justice of the Peace (1932-50). To commemorate the end of World War II he donated a stained glass window to St. Mary's Church. He published his mother's poetry (Poems by Athel Sayce) in 1915; Guide to Llandrindod Wells, Day with the blind, and Rambles in Yorkshire. In
SEABORNE-DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1904 - 1984), lawyer and politician May 1945, following the elevation of the sitting Liberal MP David Lloyd George to a hereditary peerage the previous January, he held the Caernarfon Boroughs for the Liberals in a by-election, polling 27,754 votes against his sole opponent Professor J. E. Daniel for Plaid Cymru. The operation of the political truce for the duration of the war meant that neither the Conservatives nor the Labour Party
SILVERTHORNE, THORA (1910 - 1999), nurse and trade unionist Horner. After the death of her mother in August 1927, Thora moved to England where she worked as a nanny to Somerville Hastings, who was MP for Reading and also the founder and president of the Socialist Medical Association (SMA). Hastings encouraged her to train as a nurse at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, where her sister Olive was already a senior nurse. She rejoined the Communist Party in
SOSKICE, FRANK (Baron Stow Hill of Newport), (1902 - 1979), barrister and Labour politician East in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry throughout World War II. He was the Labour MP for Birkenhead East, 1945-50, previously considered a safe Liberal division, but his constituency was abolished before the February 1950 election. He then represented the Neepsend division of Sheffield, April 1950 (after the sitting MP Harry Morris had stood down in order to make way for Soskice
STANLEY, HENRY EDWARD JOHN (3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley and 2nd Baron Eddisbury), (1827 - 1903), Diplomat, translator and writer, hereditary peer across Europe in 1848, Stanley experienced both political and spiritual crises during his first year in Whitehall. He became less confident in the Whig-Liberal outlook he had inherited from his parents, and increasingly conservative politically and morally. Although he did not lose faith in God, theological doubts - not least about the literal accuracy of the Bible - kept him away from church for the
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
STONELAKE, EDMUND WILLIAM (1873 - 1960), politician and a key figure in establishing the Labour Party in the Merthyr Boroughs constituency Born 5 April 1873 in Merchant Street, Pontlotyn, Rhymney valley, Glamorganshire, last of the ten children of George and Hannah Stonelake. His mother (born in Gloucester) had a strong influence on him. He was brought up in a non-Welsh and Anglican home: two attributes which set him outside the Nonconformist, Welsh -speaking, Liberal culture characteristic of the south Wales coalfield during the
THIRLWALL, CONNOP (1797 - 1875), bishop of S. Davids other. On the other hand, remembering his liberal views, Thirlwall's attitude was disappointing when Rowland Williams (1817 - 1870) got into trouble - see Life of Rowland Williams, i, 333-7. What with one thing and another, he gradually became estranged from his parish clergy and came to rely increasingly on his archdeacons. He lost his sight, and had a stroke; he resigned his see in 1874, and died at

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