Dictionary of Welsh Biography

STANLEY family Penrhos, of Westminster from 1864 to 1881. The 1st baron himself had some noteworthy sons: EDWARD JOHN STANLEY, the 2nd baron (1802 - 1869), who held several offices in Whig administrations, being president of the Board of Trade from 1855 to 1858, and his twin brother WILLIAM OWEN STANLEY (1802 - 1884), M.P. for Anglesey (1837-47), for Chester (1850-7), and for the Anglesey boroughs from 1857 to 1874, a
STANLEY, HENRY EDWARD JOHN (3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley and 2nd Baron Eddisbury), (1827 - 1903), Diplomat, translator and writer, hereditary peer were, in many respects, ahead of their time and morally vindicated in the twentieth century. In 1884, Stanley inherited the large Penrhos estate on Anglesey following the death of a childless uncle, William Owen Stanley (1802-1884). Stanley spent his final years in Cheshire, Anglesey and London. In north Wales, he took keen interest in the Penrhos estate, which was overseen by agents. It was stated
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist Born 22 September 1882 in Northam, Devon, youngest son of William and Mary Stapledon. He was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, receiving his M.A. in botany in 1904. After working in the family's commercial office in Cairo for about two years he spent a year as a student on a large fruit farm in Kent. In 1908 he returned to Cambridge to follow a
STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author Journal at Newport and edited the few numbers which appeared between 1 May and 31 July 1841. Elegies were composed on him by (1) W. Downing Evans (The Gwyddonwyson Wreath, 1853); (2) William Thomas (Islwyn), W. Ambrose (Emrys), and Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled). His library was bequeathed to his executors James Rowe and David Lloyd Isaac. A number of letters by him to William Roberts (Nefydd) are
STEPHEN, EDWARD (JONES) (Tanymarian; 1822 - 1885), musician brother, William Stephen, a clothier. When he was 18 he began to preach at Saron Congregational church, Llan Ffestiniog, and in 1843 he went to the Bala Congregational college. As he found there was another student named Edward Jones, he adopted the additional surname of Stephen after his grandfather's Christian name Stephen Jones. He had previously studied music and when he was at college he wrote
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet , he won the first prize for a collection of the work of Guto'r Glyn. Sir Owen kept the work, intending to publish it, but it never appeared. In the national eisteddfod in Colwyn Bay, 1910, again under the adjudication of Sir Owen M. Edwards, Stephen shared the prize with the Reverend D.R. Jones, Cardiff, for the best collection of the unpublished work of any Welsh poet of Tudor times, with a short
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator two literatures. In collaboration with figures such as T. J. Morgan, Roland Mathias, Glyn Tegai Hughes and M. Wynn Thomas a stable publishing environment was established, literary magazines were born (some stillborn), writers were supported and a lively exchange programme placed Welsh writing in an international context. The future Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott was recipient of a Wales Arts
STEPHENS, THOMAS (1821 - 1875) Born 21 April 1821 at Tan-y-gyrchen (known as Ty-to-cam =the house with the crooked roof), Pont Neath Vaughan, Glamorganshire, son of Evan Stephens, boot-maker, and Margaret, daughter of William Williams, Unitarian minister of Blaen-gwrach. He spent about three years at the school kept by John Davies (1795 - 1858) at Newcastle Emlyn, and this was all the systematic education he ever had. In 1835
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer Thomas Stephens was born on 21 April 1821 at Tan-y-gyrchen (also known as Tŷ-to-cam, i.e. the house with the crooked roof), in Pontneddfechan, Glamorganshire, the son of Evan Stephens, a well-known boot-maker, and his wife Rachel, the daughter of William Williams (Wil y Gweydd, 1778-1834), a weaver and the Unitarian minister of Blaen-gwrach chapel. Among those who influenced Stephens in his youth
STEPNEY family Prendergast, the diocese of S. Davids for life. He was also registrar of the diocese. He married (1), 1565, Margaret (c. 1546 - ante 1573), daughter and coheiress of Thomas Catharn of Prendergast, who brought him the manor of Prendergast, and (2), before 1573, Mary, daughter of William Philipps of Picton. In local politics he became prominent within a group of gentry, led by William Philipps, in opposition to
STONELAKE, EDMUND WILLIAM (1873 - 1960), politician and a key figure in establishing the Labour Party in the Merthyr Boroughs constituency
STRADLING family Gwenllian, daughter of Sir Roger Berkerolles and heiress of her brother Sir Lawrence. Their son, Sir WILLIAM STRADLING, was mainpernor for the prior of Ewenny in 1400, and was placed on a commission to inquire about the goods of Welsh rebels carried into Somerset and Dorset, 1403-5. He went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1408, and died before 1412, for Combe Hawey was held by his widow, Elizabeth, in that

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