Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, estate passed to his younger brother, Griffith Howel Vaughan. When Griffith died in 1848 it was inherited by his nephew, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau and Ystumcolwyn, from whom it passed to Charles Henry Wynn (1847 - 1911) of Glynllifon, third son of Spencer Bulkeley Wynn, 3rd baron Newborough (see Glyn of Glynllifon family, and Wynn family of Rug). CHARLES SALUSBURY, second surviving son of
SAMUEL, CHRISTMAS (1674 - 1764), Independent minister social life of the district and in the church. He was a strong advocate of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror's Circulating Schools; he was also one of the main patrons of the men who were associated with the literary renaissance that came about in the district between the rivers Towy and Tivy at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th. His name is associated with Isaac Carter's printing
SAMUEL, WILLIAM THOMAS (1852 - 1917), musician Parry. He composed hymn-tunes, anthems, and other pieces. His ' Storm the Fort of Sin,' the quartette ' Y Deigryn,' and his two anthems ' Mor hawddgar yw Dy bebyll ' and ' O'r dyfnder y llefais,' became popular. With J. H. Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), he edited Llawlyfr Moliant, the Baptist hymn and tune-book, and produced the Sol-fa version of the collection of hymn-tunes edited by Ellis Roberts (Elis
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian 1910. Among his best work was chapter x (on the early works of Morgan John Rhys) contributed to the Cofiant by Dr. J. T. Griffith, and chapter xxxvi on the age of John Richard Jones, written for the Cofiant by David Williams. Shankland's sympathies, however, were catholic and comprehensive, not in any way bound in by the fences of denominations, as witness his Cofiadur article on Evan Roberts of
SILVERTHORNE, THORA (1910 - 1999), nurse and trade unionist native, Arthur Bryn Roberts, whom Thora greatly admired. After the Second World War Thora became Assistant Secretary of the SMA, contributing to the establishment of the National Health Service in 1945, and meeting both Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan to discuss the SMA plans. In 1946 she married Nares Craig (1917-2012) from Clitheroe, Lancashire, a fellow communist party member, engineer and
SIMON, BEN (c. 1703 - 1793), dissenter and copyist was a bootmaker. His elegy on Griffith Jones of Llanddowror shows how greatly he, like many other contemporaries, was indebted to Jones and his schools. Simon, like so many other antiquaries and literary men of that generation, was a dissenter, and he is recorded as being a member of the chapel at Panteg, Carmarthenshire, in March 1743 (the Panteg Church Book, NLW MS 12362D). Ben Simon was one of
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
STRADLING family in Welsh life, and secured a place among the patrons of Glamorgan bards. By the marriage of one of the daughters of this Thomas Stradling to Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn the family took another step towards the centre of Welsh life. The heir was a minor. He was knighted at Tournai in 1513 as Sir EDWARD STRADLING. In 1488, it is reported that Sir Rhys ap Thomas had taken the profits of his lands
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, Gwynedd) by queen Elizabeth. Furthermore he could compose an englyn, as is proved by the poetic dispute between him and Rhys Gruffydd and William Mostyn (NLW MS 1553A (761)). He married (1) Alis, daughter of Robert Salusbury of Rug, (2) Jane, daughter of John Massey of Broxon in Cheshire, and (3) Margaret, daughter of Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn. He died 15 April 1586, aged 60, and was buried at
THICKENS, JOHN (1865 - 1952), minister (Presb.), historian and author . His pedantic and over-grammatical style was also a stumbling block for many of his admirers. He was a member of the committee for the Welsh Methodist hymnal (1927). He researched much of the history of the hymnwriters and their works, and prepared a useful handbook to accompany the collection, Emynau a'u Hawduriaid (1947; 1961, 'new edition, revised, with additions', by Gomer M. Roberts). As much as
THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner , together with Charlotte Price White and Mary Silyn Roberts, and Gladys was one of the speakers who addressed the crowd. The North Wales Women's Peace Council was established in the aftermath of the Peace Pilgrimage. Gladys was, from the outset, its Honorary Secretary, a role she held until her death. A prolific letter writer, she challenged individuals, organisations, politicians and even international
THOMAS, DAVID (1880 - 1967), educationalist, author and pioneer of the Labour Party in north Wales , llythyrau a sgyrsiau (1954), a biography of Silyn (Robert Silyn Roberts) 1871-1930 (1956), and Ann Griffiths a'i theulu (1963); also ' Glendid iaith ', a weekly column on grammar in Y Faner (c. 1957-62). As a tribute to him he was presented with the volume, Ben Bowen Thomas (ed.), Lleufer y werin; cyfrol deyrnged i David Thomas, M.A. (1965), and his autobiography was published posthumously, Diolch am gael

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