Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SEAGER, JOHN ELLIOT (1891 - 1955), shipowner Born 30 July 1891, eldest son of Sir William Henry Seager and Margaret Annie (née Elliot), and brother of George Leighton Seager. On 26 May 1922 he married Dorothy Irene Jones of Pontypridd, and they had four children. Educated at Cardiff High School and Queen's College, Taunton, he joined his father's shipping companies where he gained experience of all levels of management and control of
SHADRACH, AZARIAH (1774 - 1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author in 1798. Dr. George Lewis, Llanuwchllyn, persuaded him to settle in the North. He kept school at Hirnant, Pennal, Derwen-las, and Trefriw, and preached wherever he had the opportunity. In 1802 he was ordained minister at Llanrwst, moving in 1806 to take charge of the churches at Tal-y-bont and Llanbadarn-fawr, Cardiganshire. He set up regular preaching for Independents at Aberystwyth in 1816, and
SILVERTHORNE, THORA (1910 - 1999), nurse and trade unionist Thora Silverthorne was born at 170 Alma Street, Abertillery, on 25 November 1910, the fifth of eight children of George Richard Silverthorne (1880-1962), a coal hewer, and his wife Sarah (née Boyt, 1882-1927). Her father was an active member of the South Wales Miners Federation and a founder member of the Abertillery branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Her younger brother Reginald
SMITH, THOMAS ASSHETON (1752 - 1828) Vaenol, Bangor, landed proprietor and quarry owner Lodge, Berkshire, but they had no children and, after his widow's death, the Welsh estates passed into the possession of George William Duff, his niece's eldest son.
SOSKICE, FRANK (Baron Stow Hill of Newport), (1902 - 1979), barrister and Labour politician issues. The Conservative opposition had such a regard for him that in 1959 they intimated that Soskice, and he alone of the Labour MPs, could, if he wished, have the Speakership. But he turned down the offer. When Gaitskell died in 1963, some within the Labour Party wished to draft in Soskice as a compromise candidate for the party leadership. But Soskice, who was a strong supporter of George Brown
SOUTHALL, REGINALD BRADBURY (1900 - 1965), oil refinery director Born at Bollington, Cheshire, 5 June 1900, son of the Rev. George Henry Southall, and Harriette his wife. He was educated at West Monmouth School. After spending a few years in the steel industry he joined the laboratory staff of the National Oil Refineries, (subsequently the British Petroleum Refinery (Llandarcy), Ltd.), when the Llandarcy refinery came into operation in 1921 and he remained
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
SPARKS, JOHN (1726 - 1769), early Moravian . But in 1751 he went over to Moravianism, and joined George Gambold in beginning Moravian services in a warehouse on the quay - the origin of the later society, and therefore of the 1763 Moravian congregation, the only one in Wales. But Sparks was a difficult man, and when the congregation moved to its new chapel on S. Thomas's Green, his autocratic actions led to his being disciplined and 'silenced
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author . The Story of his Life from his Birth in 1841 to his Discovery of Livingstone in 1871 (London, 1872). Some Americans - Stanley at this time was an American citizen - claimed him as American - born - e.g. in Missouri. In 1895 there was published, in London, The Birth, Boyhood, and Younger Days of Henry M. Stanley, the Celebrated Explorer. A South Wales Hero. By Thomas George (An Old Playmate); the
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen scholarships and at the beginning of his preparatory course at the Presbyterian College, before he went on to University, one of the external examiners had referred to him as a young man of exceptional abilities. He graduated with a B.A. (with honours in philosophy), B.D. (Wales) and M.A. (Cantab.). At Cambridge he was a student of Sir James George Frazer. In 1912 he was ordained as a minister, without
STEPNEY family Prendergast, 1845) (see D.N.B.). The D.N.B. deals with another member of this family, namely GEORGE STEPNEY (1663 - 1707), poet and envoy.

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