Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher Born 1 August 1880 at 44 Dyvatty Terrace, Swansea, son of Henry and Eliza (née Lewis) Snell. In 1900 he established a business in Alexandra Arcade, Swansea, selling music, musical instruments and records. Ten years later, on the retirement of the publisher Benjamin Parry (1835 - 1910) who had worked in Swansea since 1878, Snell bought his stock and copyrights and thereby began his great lifework
SOMERSET family Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, CHARLES SOMERSET 1st Somerset earl of Worcester (1460? - 1526) The illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd duke of Somerset, beheaded by the Yorkists (1463). He was a staunch supporter of Henry Tudor, who from the beginning of his reign as Henry VII employed him about court and abroad, admitting him to the Privy Council on 14 February 1505. His advancement in Wales dates from his marriage (2 June
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
STANLEY, HENRY EDWARD JOHN (3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley and 2nd Baron Eddisbury), (1827 - 1903), Diplomat, translator and writer, hereditary peer Henry Stanley was born on 11 July 1827 in Cheshire. He was the first of the ten children of Edward John Stanley (1802-1869), the second Baron Stanley of Alderley and first Baron Eddisbury, who served as a Whig Member of Parliament and Paymaster General, and his wife Henrietta Maria (née Dillon-Lee, 1807-1895), Baroness Stanley of Alderley, who campaigned for the education of women. Henry Stanley
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author stayed in Liverpool at the house of another aunt for a short time before he shipped for New Orleans, U.S.A., ostensibly as a cabin-boy. There he was befriended by a merchant named Henry Stanley, whose name he adopted as his own. He joined the Confederate (Southern) Army during the American Civil War; he also served, later, in the American navy. About this time he became fairly prominent as a newspaper
STENNETT, ENRICO ALPHONSO (1926 - 2011), race relations activist, businessman, dancer
STEPNEY family Prendergast, Haverfordwest, 1640-3. In 1662 he was mayor of Haverfordwest and deputy lieutenant of county Pembroke in 1674. His wife was Magdalen, daughter of Sir Henry Jones of Abermarlais. He died before 26 September 1676. His nephew, Sir JOHN BAPTIST STEPNEY (died 1681), the 4th baronet, married Justina Marianna, daughter of Sir Anthony Vandyke, the painter. Their son, Sir THOMAS STEPNEY, the 5th baronet, married
STRADLING family . They adopted a kinsman who inherited the estate on Sir Edward's death in 1609 - Sir JOHN STRADLING, son of Francis Stradling of S. George, Bristol, son of Henry Stradling, second son of Thomas Stradling (died 1480) and Jenet Mathew. This JOHN STRADLING received his education at Oxford (B.A. 1584), and travelled on the Continent. He was sheriff of Glamorgan 1607, 1609, 1620, and was knighted 1608, and
SULIEN (1011 - 1091), teacher and Bishop of St David's , died in 1137, leaving, along with some illuminations in a manuscript of Jerome, an extant autograph of the ' De Trinitate ' of Augustine, which contains a short Latin poem by the copyist about Sulien and his family on the fly-leaves. Nothing is known of Arthen, but probably the scholar HENRY AB ARTHEN (died 1163) was his son, DANIEL (died 1127), became archdeacon of Powys, and his son CYDIFOR (died
SULLIVAN, CLIVE (1943 - 1985), rugby league player Clive Sullivan was born on 9 April 1943 at 49 Wimborne Street, Splott, Cardiff, the second of four children of Charles Henry Sullivan (born 1923), an electrical engineer who served in the RAF, and his wife Dorothy (Doris) Eileen (née Boston, 1921-1991). His father was originally from Jamaica, and his mother's father was a seaman from Antigua. Clive attended Moreland Road Primary School in Splott
SYMONDS, RICHARD (1609 - ?), Puritan preacher - Henry Walter, Walter Cradock, and Richard Symonds - all three to preach in Welsh, all three to have £100 per annum out of the lands of the disendowed dean and chapter. On 30 September 1646 and 26 April 1648 Symonds was asked to preach before the House of Commons; in 1650 he was named as one of the twenty-five approvers under the Propagation Act. His sphere of activity, both as preacher and approver
SYPYN CYFEILIOG (fl. 1340-1390), poet borne the name of Cneppyn Gwerthrynion, for he is mentioned by Gwilym Ddu o Arfon. Sir Ifor Williams suggests that three poets of short physical stature have been confused, namely Cneppyn Gwerthrynion, Bach Buddugre, and Sypyn Cyfeiliog. Sypyn sang a panegyric cywydd to Henry Salusbury of Lleweni (died 1400) and his wife Agnes Courtois, and also the two cywyddau included in Iolo Goch ac Eraill. This

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