Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SIMMONS, JOSEPH (1694? - 1774), Independent minister, and schoolmaster taken over Rees Price's academy at Tyn-ton when Price died in 1739 - but in 1741 at the latest he had a school at Swansea. Simmons was a Calvinist; he is named by Edmund Jones in 1741 (Trevecka letter 362) as one of the Independent ministers who supported the Methodist revival; and Edmund Jones urged Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) to go to the school kept by ' Mr. Seimons at Swanzey ' rather than to
SIMON, BEN (c. 1703 - 1793), dissenter and copyist was a bootmaker. His elegy on Griffith Jones of Llanddowror shows how greatly he, like many other contemporaries, was indebted to Jones and his schools. Simon, like so many other antiquaries and literary men of that generation, was a dissenter, and he is recorded as being a member of the chapel at Panteg, Carmarthenshire, in March 1743 (the Panteg Church Book, NLW MS 12362D). Ben Simon was one of
SION ap HYWEL ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN, poet A poet of this name composed an elegy on the death of Tudur Aled c. 1526. Poems attributed to him are found in Bodewryd MS 2B; Cwrtmawr MS 242B; NLW MS 552B, NLW MS 566B, NLW MS 832E, NLW MS 1024D, NLW MS 1246D, NLW MS 1553A, NLW MS 2288B, NLW MS 5273D, NLW MS 6209E, NLW MS 6495D, NLW MS 6499B, NLW MS 6681B, NLW MS 8330B; and B.M. Add. MSS. 14966, 14969, 14976, 14978. See also Lewis and Jones
SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher , republishing the whole under his own name. He purchased, among other items, the musical output of the publishers Isaac Jones (1835 - 1899), Treherbert; Daniel Lewis Jones ('Cynalaw'; 1841 - 1916), Llansawel and Cardigan; John Richard Lewis (1857 - 1919), Carmarthen; the North Wales Music Co., Bangor; and the National Welsh Company, Caernarfon. By 1939 he had an extensive catalogue of fifteen hundred items
SOMERSET family Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, . Thomas Prichard, a correspondent of James Howell - while allowing the superior of the Jesuits, Robert Jones (born 1564), to live under his wife's protection at Raglan : but all his children ultimately followed their mother's faith. Thomas Wiliems of Trefriw, the lexicographer, says of him: ' ni rusia ddywedyd cymraec, a'i hymgeleddu, a'i mawrhâu yn anwylgu Frytanaidd.' HENRY SOMERSET 5th earl of
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author author of this book claims that Stanley was no other than his schoolmate Howell Jones, son of Josuah Jones, bookbinder, Cenarth, in the valley of the Tivy, and that Stanley was born at Ysgar, in the parish of Betws, near Newcastle Emlyn. But lady Stanley and the writer of the detailed article on Stanley in the D.N.B. do not accept the findings of Thomas George. Stanley himself (see Autobiography) gives
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist , geology and botany by C. Bryner Jones, O.T. Jones and R.A. Yapp respectively. From 1916-18 he was director of the Official Seed Testing Station established during that period in London. Then, in 1919, he was appointed as the first director of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station and head of the Agricultural Botany department established in that period in University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. It was in
STENNETT, ENRICO ALPHONSO (1926 - 2011), race relations activist, businessman, dancer historical and contemporary contexts, he presented social, political and ethical issues, including anti-colonial practice, anti-racism, liberation and independence for African colonies. He only stopped the regular soap box practice after he set up the monthly African Voice, known as the first printed UK-based Black newspaper, that continued until Claudia Jones started the more widely circulated West Indian
STENNETT, STANLEY LLEWELLYN (1925 - 2013), musician, comedian, actor then recorded. Retirement was never on Stennett's mind, and he toured his own shows and pantomimes well into his 80s. He still has the record for hosting the most consecutive pantomimes at the New Theatre in Cardiff - completely sold out for five years in a row. He was also in television shows such as Heartbeat, Doctors, Casualty, The History of Mr Polly and most recently Stella with Ruth Jones. He
STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author , Llanelly); (3) Cofiant … John Williams, gweinidog y Bedyddwyr yn Nhrosnant, Pontypwl, 1841 (with W. Jones (Bleddyn) and David D. Evans; (4) On the True Church of Jesus Christ: an essay, 1842; (5) Luther, Milton, and Pascal: three lectures, 1845; (6) Memoirs of Christmas Evans, 1847; and (7) Pwka'r Trwyn, the celebrated Mynyddyslwyn Sprite, 1851. An advertised work by him in 1851 entitled 'A Lecture on
STEPHEN, EDWARD (JONES) (Tanymarian; 1822 - 1885), musician Born in a house called Rhyd-y-sarn in the parish of Maentwrog, Merionethshire, and christened (as Edward Jones) in the church of S. Michael, Ffestiniog, 15 December 1822. His father could sing to the harp whilst his mother was also a good singer. The family moved to Penmount Bach and afterwards to Ty'n-y-maes, Llan Ffestiniog. After he had attended Penralltgoch school he was apprenticed to his
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet (Jones' West Monmouthshire School), where he stayed until he retired in 1948. He was a very versatile man. He taught Welsh, history, geography, and mathematics. In August 1913 he took a course in geography at the University College in Aberystwyth in order to be able to teach history and geography as a joint course. Professor H.J. Fleure said that he had a freshness of attitude only rarely found in

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