Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SPOONER, JAMES (1789 - 1856), railway engineer throughout the world. His son CHARLES EASTON SPOONER (1818 - 1889), railway engineer Engineering, Construction, Naval Architecture and SurveyingLiterature and Writing, was born at Maentwrog. He assisted his father and afterwards became his successor as engineer of the Festiniog railway. He wrote and lectured much on the subject of narrow-gauge railways, and his book, Narrow Gauge Railways, 1871, is a
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author adventures in America and Asia, 1895. Sir Henry M. Stanley was married on 12 July 1890, at Westminster Abbey, to Dorothy, daughter of Charles Tennant, Cadoxton Lodge, Neath, Glamorgan; it was lady Stanley who prepared for publication in 1909 The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B., D.C.L., Ll.D. On the title-page of the Autobiography is a list of the numerous honours which Stanley had
STANTON, CHARLES BUTT (1873 - 1946), M.P.
STEEGMAN, JOHN EDWARD HORATIO (1899 - 1966), author of books on art and architecture Gwendoline Davies bequest. He came to Wales as a specialist on British portraiture and his main contribution to the Museum was his survey of portraits in Welsh houses. His Survey of portraits in North Wales houses (1955) was published after he had left Wales; the survey of south Wales was completed by R.L. Charles and published in 1961. He published a number of articles and other books on art, including
STRADLING family who declined election as principal of Jesus College, 1661. The 3rd baronet, Sir EDWARD STRADLING, who was knighted at Oxford in 1643, was a son of the 2nd bart. Like other members of his family he served king Charles in the Civil War. He was only 20 years old at the battle of Newbury, 1644. (His brothers John and Thomas took a leading part in the Glamorgan risings of 1647-8. John was taken prisoner
SULLIVAN, CLIVE (1943 - 1985), rugby league player Clive Sullivan was born on 9 April 1943 at 49 Wimborne Street, Splott, Cardiff, the second of four children of Charles Henry Sullivan (born 1923), an electrical engineer who served in the RAF, and his wife Dorothy (Doris) Eileen (née Boston, 1921-1991). His father was originally from Jamaica, and his mother's father was a seaman from Antigua. Clive attended Moreland Road Primary School in Splott
SYMMONS family Llanstinan, the father of Charles Symmons. CHARLES SYMMONS (1749 - 1826), cleric and author Literature and Writing Religion Born at Cardigan (Asaph), son of John Symmons above. He entered Westminster School, 14 January 1765, and proceeded to the universities of Glasgow, Cambridge (B.D. 1786), and Oxford (D.D. 1794). Ordained c. 1775, he received the rectory of Narberth (with Robeston), Pembrokeshire, 1778, to
TALBOT, CHARLES (1st baron Talbot of Hensol), (1685 - 1737), lord chancellor D.N.B.) had been hitherto associated mainly with England. It was when he married a Welsh heiress that his connection with Wales began. This was in the summer of 1708, his wife being Cecil, daughter of Charles Mathew, Castell Menich, Glamorgan, granddaughter and heiress of judge David Jenkins of Hensol. Talbot built at Hensol a Tudor-style castle to which his son added afterwards. He was raised to the
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, 1593, and for Denbighshire from March to June 1614. He married Ann Biggs, who owned an estate in Essex. He was alive in 1631. AMBROSE THELWALL (1570 - 1652) Ninth son of John Wynn Thelwall. He spent some time in the service of Sir Francis Bacon before being appointed to the office of yeoman of the robes to James I, Charles I, and Charles II (while he was prince of Wales). He died 5 August 1652, and
THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner Gladys Thoday was born on 13 March 1884 in Chester, the first child of John Thorley Sykes (1852-1908), a cotton broker, and his wife Mary Louisa (née March, 1856-1951). She had one sister, Olive Thorley Sykes (1886-1933). The family later moved to the Sykes family home at Croes Howell near Gresford in Denbighshire. She was educated at the Queen's School, Chester, before going up at the age of
THOMAS family Wenvoe, , the flagship of rear-admiral Linzee at Gibraltar. He returned home in 1814, but had no further active employment. On 7 August 1816 he married Susannah, daughter of Arthur Atherley, and had three sons and a daughter. He was retired with the rank of rear-admiral on 1 October 1846, and died on 19 December 1855. CHARLES NASSAU THOMAS A nephew of Sir Edmund Thomas, was as staunch an adherent of George
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer across the road from the Evening Post offices in Castle Street. Others were the poet Charles Fisher, the musician and teacher Tom Warner, the broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, the composer Daniel Jones and, later, the poet Vernon Watkins. Up to 1938, London alternated with Swansea as Thomas's main base. Cosmopolitan artistic life in London was celebrating Surrealism and Picasso in art, 'Modernist

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