Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SALISBURY, THOMAS (1567? - 1620), publisher ' Registers in 1597 was a Welsh version of A godly meditation of the soule concerninge a love towards Christ our Lord, but there is no evidence that this was ever published. In a letter written to Sir John Wynn of Gwydir c. 1610 (Ballinger and Jones, The Bible in Wales and Calendar of the Wynn of Gwydir Papers) Salisbury refers to several books in Welsh lost through the untimely death of Edward Kyffin, 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 family Rug, Bachymbyd, , daughter of John ap Madog of Bodvel, Llŷn. He was succeeded by his son JOHN SALUSBURY, who was Member of Parliament for Merioneth in 1553 and sheriff of the same county in 1559 and 1578. John added to the estate by buying the lordship of Glyndyfrdwy from William, lord Graye de Wilton, and John Banester, who had received it from the Crown in 1552. He married Elisabeth, daughter of his kinsman Sir John
SALUSBURY family Lleweni, Bachygraig, origin. They were established at Lleweni in the Vale of Clwyd before 1334, though no Salusbury appears among the original burgesses of near-by Denbigh, listed in its original charter (before 1290). The belief that a 'Sir' John Salusbury founded the house of White Friars at Denbigh and was buried there in 1289 is based upon several misconceptions, and has no foundation in fact. In the course of time the
SALUSBURY, THOMAS (1561 - 1586), conspirator Born 1561, elder son and heir of John Salusbury the younger and Katheryn of Berain. His year of birth is found in an englyn by William Cynwal, NLW MS 1553A. His brother (Sir) John was born in 1566 (englyn by William Cynwal in NLW MS 6495D, facing p. 1); in the same MS., englynion by various poets name five of his children. He was admitted to Trinity College, Oxford, 29 January 1579/80 at the age
SALUSBURY, Sir THOMAS (1612 - 1643), poet and country gentleman Born 6 March 1612, eldest son of Sir Henry Salusbury of Lleweni, the 1st baronet, and Hester, daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton. He went to Jesus College, Oxford, but did not graduate. He joined the Inner Temple, November 1631, with the intention of studying law but, when his father died at the end of July 1632, he returned to Lleweni to look after the estate. He was elected a burgess of Denbigh
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

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