Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
SPEED, GARY ANDREW (1969 - 2011), footballer the First Division championship, the last season before the advent of the Premiership era. The heart of the team crowned champions of England was the formidable midfield quartet of Gary on the left flank, the Scottish pair Gordon Strachan and Gary McAllister, and the combative local boy David Batty, and Gary was the one named by manager Howard Wilkinson as his player of the season. That championship
SPINETTI, VITTORIO GIORGIO ANDRE (1929 - 2012), actor, director and author , playing in an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, David Jason and Ruth Madoc. For children of a certain generation in the 1980s, Spinetti is the voice of villain Texas Pete in the English version of the Welsh cartoon Superted, and he was for many years 'the man of a thousand faces' in the children's show Harry And The Wrinklies. His later film work included The
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author reporter, going to Asia Minor, Abyssinia, and Spain. In October 1869 he was commissioned by the proprietor of the New York Herald to proceed to Africa 'to find (David) Livingstone,' the explorer and missionary who was feared lost. He started on his African journey from Zanzibar on 21 March 1871 and met with Livingstone at Ujiji on 10 November of that year. He stayed with Livingstone (and travelled with
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist
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
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
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer were Maria Jane Williams and the Quaker Thomas Redwood (author of The Vale of Glamorgan. Scenes and Tales among the Welsh). Having first attended an elementary school 'located in a barn' near Cefn Rhigos, Stephens spent about three years at the Unitarian school founded by David Davis (1745-1827), which during his time there was under the care of John Davies, the former minister of Capelygroes in
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.
STONELAKE, EDMUND WILLIAM (1873 - 1960), politician and a key figure in establishing the Labour Party in the Merthyr Boroughs constituency Born 5 April 1873 in Merchant Street, Pontlotyn, Rhymney valley, Glamorganshire, last of the ten children of George and Hannah Stonelake. His mother (born in Gloucester) had a strong influence on him. He was brought up in a non-Welsh and Anglican home: two attributes which set him outside the Nonconformist, Welsh -speaking, Liberal culture characteristic of the south Wales coalfield during the

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