Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SOMERSET, FITZROY RICHARD (4th BARON RAGLAN), (1885 - 1964), soldier, anthropologist, author
SPINETTI, VITTORIO GIORGIO ANDRE (1929 - 2012), actor, director and author Shrew with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Rome. He also made a formidable appearance in the sitcom Two in Clover with Sid James which began in 1969. Spinetti had a diverse and seemingly random direction to his work, moving between styles and genres. In the 1970s he directed several musicals, notably Hair in Amsterdam and Rome, and Jesus Christ Superstar in Paris. He wrote the play In His Own
SPURRELL family, printers The first Spurrell to settle at Carmarthen was JOHN SPURRELL, Bath, an auctioneer who also became agent for the estate of one of the branches of the Mansel family. He and his wife Sarah (Singers) settled in the Lower Market Street (later Hall Street) during the last quarter of the 18th century. They had a son, RICHARD SPURRELL, who was clerk to the Carmarthenshire county magistrates and who
STEEGMAN, JOHN EDWARD HORATIO (1899 - 1966), author of books on art and architecture University of Chicago in 1950. After his retirement he was in much demand as a lecturer in Europe, the Middle East, U.S.A., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. During his period at the National Museum the department of art became an important centre for the study of the work of Richard Wilson, and he gave encouragement to contemporary art in Wales. Before leaving the Museum he compiled a catalogue of the
STENNETT, STANLEY LLEWELLYN (1925 - 2013), musician, comedian, actor Stan Stennett was born on 30 July 1925 on a farm in Rhiwceiliog, Pencoed, near Bridgend, the eldest of three sons of Doris Stennett. He never knew his father, and his mother died in 1937, so Stan was brought up from the age of twelve by his grandparents, Richard and Annie Stennett. Fairly early on, it became obvious that he was a gifted musician, and by the time he was 15 he could already play
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer Church. Her brother Richard conducted most of the business after Stephens suffered a first stroke in 1868. Thomas Stephens's main contributions to the shaping of modern Wales are his efforts as a member of Merthyr Tydfil's middle class to transform it from an industrial village to an urban community endowed with modern civic institutions; his tireless work on modernizing all aspects of Welsh culture
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
SYMONDS, RICHARD (1609 - ?), Puritan preacher - Henry Walter, Walter Cradock, and Richard Symonds - all three to preach in Welsh, all three to have £100 per annum out of the lands of the disendowed dean and chapter. On 30 September 1646 and 26 April 1648 Symonds was asked to preach before the House of Commons; in 1650 he was named as one of the twenty-five approvers under the Propagation Act. His sphere of activity, both as preacher and approver
TALBOT family Margam Abbey, Penrice Castle, educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford (B.A. 1824, with 1st class honours in mathematics). He inherited the estates in 1824 and married, 28 December 1835, lady Charlotte Butler (died 1846), daughter of Richard, 1st earl of Glengall. He represented Glamorgan in Parliament for a very long period - from 1830 until he died in 1890; from 1874 he was the 'Father of the House of Commons.' First elected in
TALBOT, CHARLES (1st baron Talbot of Hensol), (1685 - 1737), lord chancellor christened at Chippenham, 21 December 1685, eldest son of William Talbot (afterwards bishop of Durham) and his wife Catharine, daughter of Richard King, alderman of the City of London. He was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford (B.A. 1704, Fellow of All Souls 1704, D.C.L. 1735; he was also awarded, in 1714, the Lambeth LL.B.). He intended to take holy orders but on the advice of lord
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, for some time afterwards until we come to RICHARD THELWALL, son of Edward Thelwall, a great-great-grandson of John and Ffelis Thelwall) who died at Caerwys eisteddfod, as he sat upon his commission, in 1568. SIMON THELWALL (1526 - 1586) Son and heir of Richard, was admitted student at the Inner Temple in November 1555, and called to the Bar on 8 February 1568. He represented the borough of Denbigh
THOMAS family Coed Helen (or Alun), Aber, father in the possession of all the family's estates in Caernarvonshire, consisting of the manor of Aber and various land and property in Caernarvon and elsewhere, including ' Coed Alen,' and also, possibly, of some specified lands in Anglesey. In 1618 he had married Catherine, daughter of Richard Parry, bishop of St Asaph. At the time of his father's death, William had two sons, Richard and Gruffydd

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