Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
THOMAS, ALFRED (1840 - 1927) Bronwydd,, baron Pontypridd constituency of east Glamorgan from 1885 until his retirement in 1910, and was elected chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party in 1898. He was also justice of the peace for Cardiff and Glamorgan, and deputy-lieutenant for Glamorgan. The movement to establish a University College at Cardiff in 1882 found in him a very ardent supporter, and he became a member of the council and subsequently its
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (Myfyr Emlyn; 1836 - 1893), Baptist minister, poet, lecturer, and author fervent Liberal.
THOMAS, DAVID ALFRED (first viscount RHONDDA), (1856 - 1918), businessman and politician, Liberal Member of Parliament , Margaret Haig. In the first phase of his career (up to 1906) D. A. Thomas's real interest was politics: he topped the poll four times as Liberal Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil. But success eluded him in Westminster; and when, after the 'landslide' of 1906 Campbell-Bannerman did not give him office, he was bitterly disappointed and turned all his energies to the Cambrian collieries. The amassing

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