Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician West, defeating Sir Alfred Mond by 115 votes in December 1923, but losing the seat to Walter Runciman in October 1924, regaining it in May 1929, and losing it once again by more than six thousand votes to Lewis Jones in October 1931. He became one of the foremost barristers of his day in Wales. He gained prominence in workers' compensation cases and was chairman of the South Wales conscientious
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
SANDBROOK, JOHN ARTHUR (1876 - 1942), journalist ; and he was at Waziristan and on the north-west frontier during the 1921 troubles. The following year he resigned his editorship and returned to Wales as chief associate editor of The Western Mail, succeeding Sir William Davies as editor in 1931. A keen and sympathetic student of Welsh life he attended many national eisteddfodau and contributed reports daily of the proceedings. He took an active part
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer 1837, aged 10 months; (2), 9 June 1829, Catherine Joseph, also a widow, of Merthyr Tydfil (died 1841?). His will (dated 29 March 1838, proved 30 March 1840) refers to property at Merthyr Tydfil and mentions his wife Catherine; his brother John; his son Thomas ('who is missing and reputed to be dead'); his sisters Mary, Sarah, Elinor, and Gwen; another sister Martha, deceased, and her children, Thomas
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
SCOURFIELD, Sir JOHN HENRY (1808 - 1876), author
SCUDAMORE family lordship of Abergavenny by the marriage of Sir ALAN SCUDAMORE with the daughter and sole heiress of the lord of Troy, not far from Monmouth. Four generations later Sir Alan's great-grandson married ALICE, one of the daughters of Owain Glyn Dwr. Sir JOHN SCUDAMORE I, Owain's son-in-law, was at the outset of the rebellion in royal service, and in 1403 was actually the custodian on the king's behalf of
SEAGER, GEORGE LEIGHTON (BARON LEIGHTON of St. Mellons), (1896 - 1963), merchant and shipowner Born 11 January 1896 the youngest son of Sir William Henry Seager (founder of the shipping company W. H. Seager and Co.), and Margaret Annie (née Elliot), his wife, of Lynwood, Cardiff, brother of John Elliot Seager. After leaving Queen's College, Taunton, at the age of 16 he travelled on the Continent and South America. At the beginning of World War I he was commissioned with the Artists' Rifles
SEAGER, JOHN ELLIOT (1891 - 1955), shipowner Born 30 July 1891, eldest son of Sir William Henry Seager and Margaret Annie (née Elliot), and brother of George Leighton Seager. On 26 May 1922 he married Dorothy Irene Jones of Pontypridd, and they had four children. Educated at Cardiff High School and Queen's College, Taunton, he joined his father's shipping companies where he gained experience of all levels of management and control of
SEYLER, CLARENCE ARTHUR (1866 - 1959), chemist and public analyst Born in Clapton, London, 5 December 1866, eldest son of Clarence Henry and Clara (née Thies) Seyler. He was educated at Priory School, Clapton, University College London, and the City and Guilds technical college, Finsbury. He had brilliant teachers in Alexander W. Williamson, Sir William Ramsay, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester and Daniel Oliver. He was assistant to W.M. Tidy, water consultant to London
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian Llanbadarn, his article on Stephen Hughes in the Beirniad, his articles on the Quaker John ap John in Cymru, besides his many articles on the authorship of hymns and the story of hymn-tunes, regardless of denomination. He insisted on doing full justice to the efforts of the Church of England in the field of education in the days before the Methodist revival, in his exhaustive article on Sir John Philipps
SHEEN, ALFRED WILLIAM (1869 - 1945), surgeon and first Provost of the Welsh National School of Medicine succeeded Sheen to the chair at Cardiff, A. L. d'Abreu, who became professor of surgery at Birmingham and R. V. Cooke who became senior surgeon to the United Bristol Hospitals. The distinguished surgeon Sir Clement Price Thomas, who became president of the Welsh National School of Medicine during the 1960s, later related how these men all told him 'what a wise and generous chief he was, always at hand to

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