Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SALISBURY, ENOCH ROBERT GIBBON (1819 - 1890), lawyer and bibliophile
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
SALTER DAVIES, ERNEST (1872 - 1955), educationalist president of several educational and library societies. His services were acknowledged when he was made a C.B.E. in 1932 and received an honorary M.A. degree of the University of Adelaide in 1937. Even after his retirement he remained active and influential in the field of education. He served as a member of the committee on Higher Agricultural Education for the Ministry of Agriculture in 1940 and the
SALUSBURY, Sir CHARLES JOHN (1792 - 1868), cleric and antiquary Born in 1792, son of Robert Salusbury (afterwards, in 1795, Sir Robert Salusbury, bt.) of Cotton Hall, Denbigh, and Catherine Vaun, heiress of Llan-wern, Monmouth. On the paternal side he was therefore a descendant of Katheryn of Berain by her second marriage. He succeeded his brother Sir Thomas Robert Salusbury, 2nd bt., as 3rd bt., and to the Llan-wern property in 1835. He has been described as
SALUSBURY, JOHN (1575 - 1625), Jesuit and scholar Born in Merionethshire, 1575, a member possibly of the Salusbury of Rug family. He went to the Jesuit College at Valladolid, 22 June 1595, was ordained priest 21 November 1600, and was sent in May 1603 to England where, in 1605, he joined the Society of Jesus. When Fr. Robert Jones died in 1615, Salusbury succeeded him as Superior of the North and South Wales District and went to live at Raglan
SALUSBURY, ROBERT Rûg (fl. c. 1549) - see WYNN
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, the greater part of the family's estates was always in Denbighshire, around Ruthin. It should be noted that this branch of the Salusburies adopted the spelling ' Salesbury ', and, throughout the 16th and 17th centuries at least, rarely used any other. The eldest of Piers ' seven sons was ROBERT SALUSBURY, sheriff of Merionethshire in 1544 and 1549 and of Denbighshire in 1546; he married Catrin
SALUSBURY family Lleweni, Bachygraig, , Robert Salusbury at Plas Isa, Llanrwst, and John Salusbury at Bachymbyd. The eldest son and heir was THOMAS SALUSBURY (died 1505), who fought at the battle of Blackheath (1497) and was, in consequence, knighted by Henry VII - the first of a stream of honours and officers which the family earned by their support of the Tudor dynasty. Thomas was succeeded by his son Sir ROGER SALUSBURY (died 1530). The
SAMUEL, EDWARD (1674 - 1748), cleric, poet, and author examples see (a) Blodeu-gerdd Cymry, 1759; (b) Llu o Ganiadau, neu Gasgliad o Garolau a Cherddi … o Gasgliad W. Jones, Bettws Gwerfil Goch (Oswestry, 1798); (c) Eos Ceiriog, 1823; and (d) B.M. Add. MS. 14961. Sermons by him were published (Pregeth ynghylch gofalon bydol a bregethwyd yn Eglwys Llangywer, yr ail dydd o fis Mai, 1720. Ar gladdedigaeth Mr. Robert Wynne, diweddar Vicar Gwyddelwern, 1731 and
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 cholera at New Orleans, 24 October 1832 (Seren Gomer, 1833, 94), in his twenty-third year. His literary remains, Gweddillion o Waith Barddonol Charles Saunderson, were published by his father in 1845 (extracts in Beirdd y Bala, ed. O. M. Edwards); there is an elegy upon him by Tegidon (John Phillips, 1810 - 1877) who had been one of his father's apprentices. Another son was ROBERT SAUNDERSON (1814
SAUNDERSON, ROBERT (1814), printer and publisher - see SAUNDERSON, ROBERT

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