Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
SHEPPARD, ARNOLD ALONZO (1908 - 1979), boxer birth in 1909), Joseph Sheppard (b. 1911). The house at 35 Sophia St (now demolished) housed four families in seven rooms. In his early teens Sheppard went to work as a miner in the Ferndale and Maerdy area of the Rhondda Valleys, and became one of the rare group of Black miners, men who were almost written out of the history of the Welsh coalfields. When Sheppard first took up boxing is not clear
SHIPLEY, WILLIAM DAVIES (1745 - 1826), cleric . He was buried at Rhuddlan, and a life-size statue of him, with a laudatory inscription, stands in the chapter-house of St Asaph cathedral. He published a tract written by his brother-in-law, Sir William Jones, on the principles of government, and after a protracted trial on a charge of seditious libel was ultimately discharged. His father, JONATHAN (1714 - 1788), son of Jonathan Shipley of Leeds
SIANCYN FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1470), poet A native, presumably, of South Wales. Nothing is known of his life, but a few of his poems remain in manuscript. These include two cywyddau to Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dynevor when he was a young man (Peniarth MS 83 (70), Llanstephan MS 30 (435)). His son, Dafydd Fynglwyd, was also a poet.
SIBLY, Sir THOMAS FRANKLIN (1883 - 1948), geologist and university administrator
SIDNEY, Sir HENRY (1529 - 1586) Penshurst, Kent, president of Wales Leicester and Sir Richard Bulkeley over the forest of Snowdon, in which Bulkeley was supported by several Caernarvonshire squires of popish sympathies, while Sidney himself was at this time censured for slackness in proceeding against recusants - which is perhaps why his rule was remembered with affection even by religious and political opponents like Hugh Owen of Plas-du. He was absent on diplomatic
SIMMONS, JOSEPH (1694? - 1774), Independent minister, and schoolmaster Samuel Jones (fl. 1715-64) at Pen-twyn, whose orthodoxy was dubious. Simmons sent his own son to Abergavenny Calvinistic Academy, and Edmund Jones was present at the young man's ordination; but the ' Old Prophet ' was deeply vexed (diary of 1789) when Joseph Simmons took part in the ordination of the 'heretical' Edward Evans at Aberdare. In 1750, Simmons removed his dwelling from Hendreforgan to

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