Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen Born at Llwyn-yr-hwrdd, Pembrokeshire, 12 May 1880, son of John Stephens, the Independent minister of Llwyn-yr-hwrdd and Bryn-myrnach, and Martha his wife. He was educated at Tegryn school, Cardigan county school and the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen (1900-02, 1906-09), University College Cardiff (1902-06), Cheshunt College, Cambridge (1909-12). He had a brilliant career, winning several
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 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
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
STEPNEY family Prendergast, The family was founded by Alban Stepney, a Hertfordshire man and son of Thomas Stepney of S. Albans by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Winde of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Educated at Cambridge and Clement's Inn, it is said that he came to Wales as a young lawyer in the employ of bishop Richard Davies during the visitation of 1559. On 31 December 1561 the bishop appointed him receiver-general of
STRADLING family for three years. Lewys Morgannwg regarded himself as a household bard to this Sir Edward. He died in 1535, leaving issue by his wife and by a concubine. His second son, John, was rector of Neath, 1551-1569. The heir was Sir THOMAS STRADLING. He was sheriff of Glamorgan, 1547-8, Member of Parliament for East Grinstead, 1553, Arundel, 1554, on the commission of peace for the march shires, 1554, on a
SUNDERLAND, ERIC (1930 - 2010), academic Wales for the Art Fund (2005-2010). Other bodies with which he was associated or to which he was elected include the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (from 2000), Welsh Livery Guild (from 2001), the Institute of Biology (from 2009), the Learned Society of Wales (2010). It was appropriate that this rich array of public service in Wales and beyond should receive recognition. He was appointed OBE in 1999
SYMMONS family Llanstinan, which, by the influence of his friend William Windham, that of the adjoining rectory of Lampeter Velfrey was added in 1794; he received the prebendal stall of Clydey in the cathedral church of S. Davids on 11 October 1789. He married, 1779, Elizabeth (died 1830), daughter of John Foley, Ridgeway, Pembrokeshire, and sister of Sir Thomas Foley. Among the five children of the marriage were Caroline and
SYMONDS, RICHARD (1609 - ?), Puritan preacher He was born at Abergavenny, 1609, the son of Thomas Symonds, and very probably a relative of the Nicodemus Symonds who was one of the chief citizens. He went to Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating in 1627, graduating B.A. in 1629. Baxter says that Symonds about 1635 kept school in Shrewsbury, that he himself was one of his pupils, that the master gave harbour to Walter Cradock when he had to

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