Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SAMUEL, EDWARD (1674 - 1748), cleric, poet, and author November 1702, but exchanged it, 21 January 1721, for that of Llangar, where he remained until his death on 8 April 1748. Two sons became clergymen - EDWARD SAMUEL (1710 - 1762), rector of Llanddulas (1735-47), and his father's immediate successor at Llangar, and WILLIAM SAMUEL (1713 - 1765), rector of Nantglyn, 1743-65, and father of Dr. David Samwell. Edward Samuel wrote some poems in free metre; for
SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician recommenced work in Garn-goch pit 3, where David Rhys Grenfell (later a Member of Parliament for Gower) was one of his workmates. He took an interest in socialist activities and was one of the secretaries of Swansea Labour Society. In a Socialist holiday school in Caister-on-sea he met Harriott Sawyer Polkinghorne, a London schoolmistress. They were married in 1911 and she strongly urged him to devote
SAMWEL, DAVID - see SAMWELL, DAVID
SAMWELL, DAVID (1751 - 1798), naval surgeon and poet
SAUNDERS, DAVID (1831 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister, preacher, educationist, and defender of Protestantism Theological College in 1891. His wife was a daughter of John Howell of Pen-coed, Glamorganshire, father of dean David Howell.
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer Born January 1769, at Undergrove, Lampeter, son of Thomas and Elinor Saunders, grandson of Evan Saunders, and nephew of David Saunders 'I', both preachers at Aberduar, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at local schools, including that of Dafydd Jones, Dol-wlff, Llanwenog, and was baptised by Timothy Thomas, Aberduar, in July 1784. His family were well-to-do, and he is named among the first
SAUNDERS, DAVID (d. 1812), pastor - see SAUNDERS, EVAN
SAUNDERS, EVAN (d. 1742), deacon A deacon in the Baptist church at Coedgleision, Betws Bledrws, which was moved to his house at Aberduar, on the removal of Enoch Francis the minister to live in the Newcastle Emlyn district about 1730. He began to preach on the minister's death in 1740, but died in 1742. DAVID SAUNDERS 'I' (died 1812), minister Religion His son, who began to preach in the church in 1764 and was ordained co-pastor
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author Sara Maria Saunders was born in March 1864 in Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the eldest of the ten children born to landowners Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Mary (1869-1918), Annie Jane (1873-1942) an international peace campaigner, and Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Bertie (1865-1879), David Charles
SAUNDERS, THOMAS (1732 - 1790), Independent minister nothing is known of his origins, but he seems to have been a native of Pontypool - even when an ordained minister, he kept on living at Pontypool and acting as an overseer at Hanbury's works. It seems certain that he came to religion through the Methodist revival; Philip David accuses him of 'preaching like the Methodists, observing no order, but rambling' - and of inviting other quasi-Methodists
SAUNDERS, WILLIAM (1806 - 1851), poet and writer ' Y Gwanwyn,' ' Yr Haf,' ' Yr Hydref,' ' Y Gaeaf,' ' Y Daran,' ' Y Môr,' as well as metrical translations. From 1830 until he died he worked in the printing and publishing office of William Rees (1808 - 1873), Llandovery. Poems and other work by him appear in journals printed by William Rees, e.g. Yr Haul, Y Cylchgrawn, and Yr Efangylydd, he was also responsible for editing part of Rice Rees's
SEABORNE-DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1904 - 1984), lawyer and politician He was born at Pwllheli on 26 June 1904, the son of David S. Davies, a sea captain and Claudia Davies his wife. He was educated at Pwllheli Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated with first class honours in law in 1924, a feat he was later to repeat at St John's College, Cambridge, where he headed the list in the law tripos and was awarded the coveted

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