Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SPURRELL family, printers married Elizabeth Margaretta, daughter of Thomas Thomas, Frowen, near Llanboidy. WILLIAM SPURRELL (1813 - 1889), printer and publisher Printing and Publishing The third son of Richard and Elizabeth Spurrell, was born 30 July 1813 at 13 Quay Street. From 1821 until 1829 or 1830 he was a pupil in the Queen Elizabeth grammar school, Carmarthen. He was apprenticed, 1 November 1830, to John Powell Davies, 58
STANLEY family Penrhos, The Stanleys came into contact with Anglesey through the marriage of Margaret Owen of Penrhos near Holyhead to Sir John Thomas Stanley (1735 - 1807) in 1763. Margaret represented a once powerful family in commote Talybolion, one of its most vigorous members being the John Owen who died in 1712, who was strong enough to withstand the influence of the Meyrick family of Bodorgan in western Anglesey
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author . The Story of his Life from his Birth in 1841 to his Discovery of Livingstone in 1871 (London, 1872). Some Americans - Stanley at this time was an American citizen - claimed him as American - born - e.g. in Missouri. In 1895 there was published, in London, The Birth, Boyhood, and Younger Days of Henry M. Stanley, the Celebrated Explorer. A South Wales Hero. By Thomas George (An Old Playmate); the
STENNETT, STANLEY LLEWELLYN (1925 - 2013), musician, comedian, actor . Eventually he found himself in the Combined Services Entertainment Unit, and this was his crucible. After demob, Stennett played in a number of bands, going on the variety circuit full time. He also joined the cast of Welsh Rarebit, with other regulars such as Sir Harry Secombe, Wyn Calvin, Eynon Evans, Gladys Morgan and Maudie Edwards. He married Elizabeth Rogers in 1948, and they had two sons, Roger (b
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, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet captain from Borth-y-Gest. They had three children, (2) in Caxton Hall, London, on 8 January 1942, to Mary Elizabeth Owen, widow of Captain Ralph D. Owen, army officer, and daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth Thomas, Gelli Haf, Maesycwmmer. The Gelli Haf family was very famous in Monmouthshire, and connected in some way with the family of William Thomas ('Islwyn'). After his second marriage, he began to
STEPHEN, THOMAS (1856 - 1906), musician Born 24 February 1856 at Brynaman, Glamorganshire. His parents moved to Aberdare when he was a child and it was there, in Ysgol y Comin, that he went to school. He joined the Aberdare Choral Society then under the conductorship of G. Rhys Jones (Caradog), and when the latter gave up the conductorship and was succeeded by Rhys Evans, Stephen became assistant conductor. In 1877 he became precentor
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen portraits of men such as George Essex Evans, Dewi Emrys, Dylan Thomas and Dyfnallt, there is a translation by him of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, ' Le Retour' (January 1921); a warm appreciation of the contribution of Professor Edmund Crosby Quiggin, the Celtic scholar, and a study on the Celts and warfare (Summer 1956 : a translation by D. Eirwyn Morgan of ' Keltic War Gods ' that was published in
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator Aberystwyth in 1963. He was a serial graffiti warrior and painted the original 'Cofiwch Tryweryn' slogan near Llanrhystud, an image now viewed as iconic. He is pictured carrying Gwynfor Evans aloft at his famous Carmarthen by-election victory in 1966. Stephens was himself Plaid's candidate for Merthyr at the general election that year, though this marked the close of his direct political career. He married
STEPHENS, THOMAS (1821 - 1875)
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
STEPHENSON, THOMAS ALAN (1898 - 1961), zoologist Born 19 January 1898 at Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, son of Thomas Stephenson, D.D., minister (Meth.) and his wife Margaret Ellen (née Fletcher). He was educated at Clapham; Wrexham; and Kingswood School, Bath, 1909-13. In 1915 he was admitted to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (where the family lived 1914-19) but was unable to take up his place because of ill-health. Professor Herbert

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