Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROWLANDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Lleyn; 1802 - 1865), Wesleyan minister, and bibliographer examine and collect books. The first fruits of his researches appeared in Y Traethodydd for 1852-3, under the title of ' Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry ' ('Bibliography of the Welsh'). He proposed to issue the work, when completed, as a fifteen-shilling volume. The work was not published, however, until 1869, four years after his death, when it was prepared for the press and edited by Daniel Silvan Evans and
SALMON, HARRY MORREY (1891 - 1985), conservationist, naturalist, soldier much of his childhood the family lived at Heol Don, Whitchurch where, aged nine his interest in birds was awakened by the discovery on the way to school of a blackbird's nest. Salmon's bird diary commenced in 1903 when he listed the birds' nests he had found. With his friends Bert Evans and Alex Lawrence he bird watched along the nearby Glamorgan Canal and soon further a field. In 1908 aged seventeen
SAMUEL, CHRISTMAS (1674 - 1764), Independent minister Born in the parish of Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire, in 1674. He came of a fairly well-to-do family; he succeeded to the family property and thereafter resided on it for the remainder of his life. It is thought that he attended school under William Evans at Pencader or Carmarthen. He was received into church membership at Panteg, it was there also that he started to preach. He was 14 years old when
SAMUEL, DAVID (Dewi o Geredigion; 1856 - 1921), schoolmaster and writer became master at Appleby grammar school, Westmorland, and at Ashbourn grammar school, Derbyshire. In January 1887 he opened a private grammar school at Aberystwyth, where he taught for nine and a half years, until appointed (1896) to the headmastership of the new county school (Ardwyn) at Aberystwyth. Under the influence of Daniel Silvan Evans he began to take a keen interest in Welsh language and
SAMUEL, WILLIAM THOMAS (1852 - 1917), musician Born 17 October 1852 at Carmarthen. He attended a local day school and then received some instruction at the hands of the Rev. Lewis Lewis and Alcwyn Evans. He started to learn the Tonic Sol-fa notation when he was quite young and succeeded in gaining many certificates, eventually becoming L.T.S.C., and a member of the council. He attended music classes at Aberystwyth College under Dr. Joseph
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer Morgan and Mary Evans; and his niece Elinor Lloyd. Saunders is best remembered for his literary work. His exercises and notes in NLW MS 3260B indicate that he was versed in Welsh strict metres, and much of his poetry was published, e.g. Ychydig a Bennillion Profiadol yn cynnwys Griddfaniad Hiraethlawn Dafydd Saunders, 1815; Dwy Awdl: y gyntaf or Elusengarwch, … yr ail, ar Farwolaeth Syr Thomas Picton
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author life'. Such was the popularity of the stories that they were collected and published under the title Llon a Lleddf ['Cheerful and Sad'] (Treffynnon: P.M. Evans a'i Fab, 1897). S.M.S. was confident that her aspiration would be realised. As she said in Y Traethodydd in 1903, p.459, 'I know that many good people believe that we will never again see great revivals like in the past… It is very difficult
SAUNDERS, THOMAS (1732 - 1790), Independent minister 'to give a rant' in his pulpit at Newport (Cofiadur, 1935, 37) - naturally, on the other hand, Edmund Jones speaks of him in the highest terms (Trevecka Letter 2724). At the end of 1769, Saunders was appointed pastor of Llanfaches and of its branch in Mill-street, Newport; he had a congregation at Machen also. He died 9 January 1790, 'aged 58,' and was buried near Mill-street chapel at Newport.
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian 1902 on the beginnings of the Sunday School in the Principality; his most substantial work was a series of sixteen articles in Seren Gomer (September 1900 - January 1904) in review of Diwygwyr Cymru by Beriah Evans, articles that revealed the riches of the Lambeth Palace Library, and proclaimed that a scientific researcher of the first rank had appeared. In 1904 he was invited to come to Bangor to
SHEPHERD, DONALD JOHN (1927 - 2018), cricketer Don Shepherd was born at Port-Eynon on the Gower Peninsula, on 12 August 1927, the eldest of the three children of Jack Shepherd and his wife Lillian (née Howell). The family later moved to Parkmill, 7 miles nearer to Swansea, where his parents were responsible for running the family shop and where Don helped with the daily delivery of newspapers. He married Joan Maureen Evans in 1953, and they
SIDDONS, SARAH (1755 - 1831), actress in the Chester theatre in May 1772, joined Kemble's company soon afterwards, but his wish to marry Sarah was opposed by her parents and by a Brecon gentleman, named Evans. Siddons appealed in verse to the Brecon audience and was dismissed from the company. He married Sarah Kemble at Coventry on 26 November 1773. Mrs. Siddons's successful career is well known - a detailed account is given in the
SILS ap SION (fl. end of the 16th century), bard own hand) in Llanover MS. B 6. Most of this work consists of cywyddau to William Evans, died 1589/90, treasurer and chancellor of Llandaff, one of the chief patrons of the bards in Glamorgan in those days. The bard's work is not of a very high standard. The collection includes one extempore englyn which Sils ap Siôn composed when a group of bards met before William Evans and Thomas Lewis of Llandaff

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