Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SALESBURY, WILLIAM (1520? - 1584?), scholar and chief translator of the first Welsh New Testament and there was no Welsh version of the Old Testament until (bishop) William Morgan published his translation of the Bible in 1588. Salesbury's translations were severely criticized and, indeed, were barely welcomed, owing to the fact that they were so full of Latinisms and other orthographical peculiarities as to be unintelligible to a great many of his contemporaries. For all that, they were fine
SALISBURY, HENRY - see SALESBURY, HENRY
SALISBURY, THOMAS (1567? - 1620), publisher . Salisbury published at least four Welsh books in London between 1593 and 1604, viz.: (a) Henry Salesbury, Grammatica Britannica, 1593; (b) William Middleton, Psalmae y Brenhinol Brophvvyd Dafydh gwedi i cynghanedhu mewn mesurau cymreig, 1603; (c) Edward Kyffin, Rhann o Psalmae Dafydd Brophwyd, 1603; and (d) a Welsh translation, 1604, of king James I, Basilikon Doron. Entered by him in the Stationers
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, Salusbury of Lleweni (the chamberlain of North Wales), and died in 1580, leaving his lands to his eldest son Sir ROBERT SALUSBURY (died 1599), who married Elinor, daughter of Sir Henry Bagnall of Plas Newydd, Anglesey. He served as Member of Parliament for the county of Denbigh 1586-7, and of Merioneth 1588-89. He went to Ireland as a captain in the English army, and was knighted there in 1593 by the Lord
SALUSBURY family Lleweni, Bachygraig, Salusburies became entirely Welsh, and had meanwhile built up a considerable estate centred upon Lleweni. The five sons of Thomas Salusbury, killed at the battle of Barnet (1471) were all men of substance. FFOWC SALUSBURY, his second son, had become dean of S. Asaph before 1505 and held the appointment until his death in 1543. Three others had acquired estates of their own: Henry Salusbury at Llanrhaeadr
SALUSBURY, Sir THOMAS (1612 - 1643), poet and country gentleman Born 6 March 1612, eldest son of Sir Henry Salusbury of Lleweni, the 1st baronet, and Hester, daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton. He went to Jesus College, Oxford, but did not graduate. He joined the Inner Temple, November 1631, with the intention of studying law but, when his father died at the end of July 1632, he returned to Lleweni to look after the estate. He was elected a burgess of Denbigh
SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician objectors' tribunal for some years. He was exceptionally competent and courageous, and had a great gift of friendship with people in all walks of life. His wife died in Swansea, 19 August 1939, and he married (2) in Llandrindod Wells, 24 April 1941, Lady Annie Gwladys, widow of Sir Henry Gregg and daughter of David Morlais Samuel, Swansea. As ' Morlaisa ' she was a member of the Gorsedd. He died 5 April
SAMUEL, WYNNE ISLWYN (1912 - 1989), local government officer, Plaid Cymru activist and organiser cent of the vote, a respectable poll for a nationalist in one of the Labour Party's rock-solid seats. Samuel was also the Plaid Cymru organiser in the Ogmore by-election of June 1946 when the party candidate Trefor Morgan polled an impressive 5,684 votes (29.4 per cent of the total poll). These spirited campaigns proved invaluable to Plaid Cymru in helping to put down roots in the south Wales valleys
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer Morgan and Mary Evans; and his niece Elinor Lloyd. Saunders is best remembered for his literary work. His exercises and notes in NLW MS 3260B indicate that he was versed in Welsh strict metres, and much of his poetry was published, e.g. Ychydig a Bennillion Profiadol yn cynnwys Griddfaniad Hiraethlawn Dafydd Saunders, 1815; Dwy Awdl: y gyntaf or Elusengarwch, … yr ail, ar Farwolaeth Syr Thomas Picton
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author Liverpool and her childhood in Daniel Rowland's village, in the sound of villagers' recollections of the Revival led by Dafydd Morgan Ysbyty Ystwyth (1859), Sara experienced a Christian religious conversion as a young girl. Following her marriage in 1887 to John Maurice Saunders (1863-1919), a member of another well-known Methodist family who lived in Liverpool (son of Dr D. D. Saunders), Sara dedicated
SCOURFIELD, Sir JOHN HENRY (1808 - 1876), author sons. In 1862 on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle William Henry Scourfield, of Moat and Robeston Hall, he assumed the name and arms of Scourfield. He was cr. a baronet by Disraeli on 18 February 1876 but he died on 3 June of the same year. The titles of five publications by Scourfield, all of which are scarce, are given in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, iii, 37-8. The
SCUDAMORE family , including his eldest son, HENRY, were among those beheaded after the battle. He was among those who with Jasper were excluded from the general pardon offered by Edward IV, and though he had been promised that he would not be deprived of his property when he ceded the castle of Pembroke, his estates were eventually forfeited. He married Joan, daughter of John Parry of Poston in Ewias, and their son James

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