Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROWLANDS, CEINWEN (1905 - 1983), singer generation, whose services in concerts and broadcasts were in great demand. She sang many times in national eisteddfod concerts, including the first performance of Mendelssohn's 'Hymn of Praise' in Welsh at the Bangor national eisteddfod in 1943. She recorded several Welsh items for Decca, including songs by Meirion Williams, D. Vaughan Thomas, and Mansel Thomas. In 1946 she married Arthur Walter, of Welsh
ROWLANDS, ROBERT PUGH (1874 - 1933), chief surgeon of Guy's Hospital , in October 1892. He had an exceptionally brilliant career there. In his first year he won the Arthur Durham prize, the Michael Harris prize for anatomy in 1894 and the first prize in 1895 and 1896. The following year he was awarded the Treasurer gold medal for surgery and medicine. After further training as a house surgeon in the hospital he resolved to obtain surgical qualifications. After
RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist Berta Ruck was born on 2 August 1878 at Murree, Punjab, India, the eldest of eight children of an army officer, Arthur Ashley Ruck (1847-1939), and his wife, Elizabeth Eleanor (née D'Arcy, 1852-1928), also from an army family and of Irish and Norman-French descent. Four other daughters and three sons followed, among them the translator Richard Conyers Ruck (1887-1973). Through her father's sister
SALISBURY, ENOCH ROBERT GIBBON (1819 - 1890), lawyer and bibliophile a short period (1857-9) he was Liberal Member of Parliament for Chester. He collected a very large library of books on Wales and the Marches; today, the bulk of this collection forms the ' Salisbury Library ' at Cardiff University College, but the University College at Bangor also has a good many books of Salisbury 's. His wife was a daughter of the Independent minister, Arthur Jones of Bangor
SALMON, HARRY MORREY (1891 - 1985), conservationist, naturalist, soldier fourteen articles well illustrated with their photographs to the magazine The Romance of Nature. Their illustrated book Birds in Britain Today published in 1934 concludes with a plea for a more tolerant approach to birds of prey: 'In other words, as sportsmen, will you not give the most sporting birds we have, the larger raptors, a sporting chance?' In 1921 near Builth Wells they met with Arthur Brook
SAMUEL, WYNNE ISLWYN (1912 - 1989), local government officer, Plaid Cymru activist and organiser military conscription, a meeting addressed powerfully by Samuel himself and the miners' leader, Arthur Horner. He was dismissed from his post in 1940 as a result of his refusal to sign a statement declaring complete support for World War II. He consequently appeared before the South Wales Conscientious Objectors Tribunal in September 1940 and then registered unconditionally as a conscientious objector
SANDBROOK, JOHN ARTHUR (1876 - 1942), journalist
SEYLER, CLARENCE ARTHUR (1866 - 1959), chemist and public analyst
SILVERTHORNE, THORA (1910 - 1999), nurse and trade unionist John (1913-1961) also became a trade union activist. Thora attended Sunday school at the Blaenau Gwent Baptist Chapel and was educated at Nantyglo Primary School before gaining a scholarship for Abertillery Grammar School. She joined the Young Communist League at the time of the 1926 General Strike, and chaired many meetings at the institute including those addressed by the miners' leader Arthur
SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher , and he offered eisteddfod prizes to committees which chose his publications as test pieces. He republished popular works like ' Myfanwy ' (Joseph Parry) and ' Yr hen gerddor ' (David Pugh Evans), but he also published new pieces of high standard, including ' Bugail Aberdyfi ' (Idris Lewis), ' Paradwys y bardd ' (W. Bradwen Jones; see Jones, William Arthur above) and Saith o ganeuon and ' Berwyn ' (D
STANLEY family Penrhos, them, the Stanleys of Alderley and Penrhos were more picturesque, versatile, and unexpected in their ways: one of them, the 3rd baron who died in 1903, became a Mohammedan, and had a Mohammedan mosque erected in Talybolion. The eldest son of Margaret Owen was made a peer in 1839; Edward his brother (1780 - 1849) became bishop of Norwich (1837-49); his son was Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, the famous dean
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator Meic Stephens was born on 23 July 1938 at 50 Meadow Street, Treforest, the eldest child of Arthur Stephens, a power station worker, and his wife Alma (née Symes). He had a younger brother from whom he became estranged. Treforest then was a world of coal, industry and rail tracks, English-speaking but intensely Welsh in character. Stephens attended Pontypridd Boys Grammar School and then studied

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