Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author Sara Maria Saunders was born in March 1864 in Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the eldest of the ten children born to landowners Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Mary (1869-1918), Annie Jane (1873-1942) an international peace campaigner, and Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Bertie (1865-1879), David Charles
SAUNDERSON, ROBERT (1780 - 1863), printer and publisher periodicals. There is a portrait of him on p. 219 of the second volume of Y Tadau Methodistaidd. Saunderson's small diary is kept at N.L.W. (NLW MS 16370A). Frances his unmarried sister, was buried in St. John's churchyard, Chester, 29 November 1801. Of his sons, the eldest was CHARLES SAUNDERSON (1809 - 1832), ('Siarl Wyn o Benllyn') poet Poetry Born 15 March 1809 and christened 28 March. He died of
SCARROTT, JOHN (1870 - 1947), boxing promoter Jack Scarrott was born at Fothergill Street, Newport, on 28 March 1870. He was the eldest son of Levi Scarrott, a basket-maker, and his wife Fiance (née Smith). After a brief period when employed as a booth boxer, Scarrott married Priscilla Loveridge of Cardiff on December 15 1890 at St. Catherine's Church in Pontypridd, and then started his own boxing booth which he built at the Mill Field
SCUDAMORE family Originally one of the lesser families of the March, having been settled in Ewias since the early 12th century, two branches in particular, those of Holm Lacy and Kentchurch, in time emerged as leading gentry in the modern history of the county of Hereford. At one period the Kentchurch branch also became intimately linked with events in Wales. In the 13th century they acquired property within the
SHEEN, ALFRED WILLIAM (1869 - 1945), surgeon and first Provost of the Welsh National School of Medicine determination and his death on 28 March 1945, at the age of 75, was particularly untimely as he was actively engaged in planning the post-war development of the school in line with the recommendations of the ground-breaking Goodenough Committee (1944). The manner of his demise was characteristic of his indomitable spirit. He had struggled from his home to the medical school, an exhausting journey of some four
SHIPLEY, WILLIAM DAVIES (1745 - 1826), cleric Born at Midgeham, Berkshire, 5 October 1745, son of Jonathan Shipley (below) and Anna Maria his wife. He was educated at Westminster and Winchester, and matriculated 21 December 1763 at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1769 and M.A. in 1771. He was ordained deacon 11 March 1770 by bishop Yonge of Norwich, and priest by his father 18 March; one day later he was appointed vicar of
SIMON, BEN (c. 1703 - 1793), dissenter and copyist There is a record of the burial of ' Benjamin Simon, a Pauper,' at Abergwili, 1 March 1793, and Iolo Morganwg has left for us in his ' Agricultural Observations,' 1795 (NLW MS 13115B, i.e. Llanover MS. C 28) a picture of the old man in his poverty. Iolo says that he was 90 years of age at the time of his death and that he had been a bookbinder by trade. Another tradition, however, has it that he
SOMERSET family Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, president (11 July) and kept him out of public office, at the same time giving him constant assurances of personal regard, and during the Bishops' Wars a dispensation from the penal laws, including permission for himself and his son to bear arms (25 March 1639). The king's further orders to the South Wales deputy lieutenants at this time to place themselves under orders from Raglan (17 July 1640), and the
SQUIRES, DOROTHY (1915 - 1998), popular singer She was born in a mobile home in Bridge Shop Field, Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire on March 25 1915, to Archibald James Squires, a steelworker, and his wife Emily (née Rickards). The couple had married in Newport in 1911. Dorothy's original name was Edna May Squires. She was raised in the village of Dafen near Llanelli, and it was at the Ritz Ballroom, Llanelli that she made her first appearance as
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author reporter, going to Asia Minor, Abyssinia, and Spain. In October 1869 he was commissioned by the proprietor of the New York Herald to proceed to Africa 'to find (David) Livingstone,' the explorer and missionary who was feared lost. He started on his African journey from Zanzibar on 21 March 1871 and met with Livingstone at Ujiji on 10 November of that year. He stayed with Livingstone (and travelled with
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen with sociology, the principles of Independence (Congregationalism) and with the Welsh of Australia. In November 1927 he sailed to Australia to try to improve his health. He chronicled the story of his journey in 'A year in Australia' (Y Dysgedydd, February 1931-March 1932) and in a travel book that is in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 20591C) - two priceless sources for information about the
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

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