Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SEABORNE-DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1904 - 1984), lawyer and politician chose to put up a candidate. But Seaborne-Davies lost the seat in the general election in the following July by the narrowest of margins to D. A. Price-White, the Tory contender. He thus had one of the shortest tenures as a Member of Parliament during the twentieth century. During these keenly observed parliamentary election campaigns he consistently pressed for the appointment of a national Secretary
SHEPPARD, ARNOLD ALONZO (1908 - 1979), boxer between 1911 and 1948. This basically meant that any boxer who did not have two white parents could not fight for titles. This must have been particularly frustrating for Sheppard as on 8 October 1926 in Port Talbot he beat Bill Beynon, previously the British bantamweight champion. Sheppard also beat Pat Butler of Leicester, the British welterweight champion in the mid-1930s, and fought a draw with his
SPEED, GARY ANDREW (1969 - 2011), footballer United in February 1998 for £5.5 million, making him, at the time, the most expensive player in Welsh football history. Gary never revealed why he had left the club he loved, because, as he said at the time, that would damage the good name of Everton football club, and he was not prepared to do that. During his six years in the famous black and white colours of Newcastle United Gary played in two FA
STANLEY, HENRY EDWARD JOHN (3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley and 2nd Baron Eddisbury), (1827 - 1903), Diplomat, translator and writer, hereditary peer Llanbadrig, or St Patrick's (1884). In line with Stanley's stipulations, the interior of Llanbadrig incorporated elements of Islamic design, including stained glass windows with blue, red and white geometric rather than figurative designs; unique blue glass tiles with geometric and floral patterns fitted around the Sanctuary; and a panel of The Good Shepherd in blue and gold opaque glass. This church may
STENNETT, ENRICO ALPHONSO (1926 - 2011), race relations activist, businessman, dancer Enrico Stennett was born on 9 October 1926 in Mount Carey, near Montego Bay, Jamaica. His white Jamaican mother Lilian Stennett was rejected by most of her Jamaica plantation-holding family for having children with black Jamaican fathers. Family records and narratives are uncertain, but extracted from autobiographical details and Jamaican National Archives, Enrico appears to be the last of her
STENNETT, STANLEY LLEWELLYN (1925 - 2013), musician, comedian, actor , such as Face the Music, Variety Parade and Show Band Parade. The ultimate call up for a comedy star was to play the Palladium, and he did just that for Val Parnell's Sunday Night At The London Palladium - notably, on his second visit of the first series, out-gagging Bob Hope in their segment together in February 1956. He also joined the Black and White Minstrel Show as compere, appearing with them
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, appointment that he sentenced Richard White, the Roman Catholic schoolmaster of Llanidloes, to his death in 1584. Thelwall was an exceptionally gifted man, who, according to Simwnt Fychan, was fluent in eight languages. After the death of Gruffudd Hiraethog, c. 1560, it appears that Simwnt forsook the patronage of the Mostyn family for that of the Thelwall family of Plas y Ward. In an awdl to Simon Thelwall
THODAY, MARY GLADYS (1884 - 1943), scientist, suffragist, peace-campaigner , together with Charlotte Price White and Mary Silyn Roberts, and Gladys was one of the speakers who addressed the crowd. The North Wales Women's Peace Council was established in the aftermath of the Peace Pilgrimage. Gladys was, from the outset, its Honorary Secretary, a role she held until her death. A prolific letter writer, she challenged individuals, organisations, politicians and even international
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist in hospital and failed to be at his funeral because of the state of her health. She had stayed for a time with Mrs. Bishop, Knapp House, Eardisland, near Ludlow, while she was recuperating after surgery. Mrs. Bishop kept The White Swan and according to one account Louie Myfanwy found the spot by accident after asking a bus driver for a suitable place to stay. Whether the story be true or not, the
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman have been aware that it was their well-connected editor who, for example, described dining with the Roosevelts at the White House. The paper provided a useful platform for her causes, most notably her Six Point Group, started in 1921. Its six-point charter aimed to make gender equality paramount. Its prescient programme provided a legal and social context for the Representation of the People Act
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress returned to How Green Was My Valley, not as the Welsh Mam this time, but rather as a surly, snobbish housekeeper (prod. Martin Lisemore, dir. Ronald Wilson for the BBC, 1975-6). For her enormous contribution to the arts she was awarded the OBE in 1968 and the white robes of the Gorsedd at the Cwm Rhymni National Eisteddfod in 1990, adopting the bardic name 'Rachel o'r Allt'. She received a BAFTA Cymru
THOMPSON, DAVID (1770 - 1857), colonial surveyor and explorer in British North America Columbia river, and was the first white man to descend it from source to mouth (1811), mapping as he went - a journey of over 1,200 miles. He left the North-West Company in 1812, settling at Montreal in order to construct his great map of the Far West, 'the basis of every Canadian government map for 100 years, and it still cannot be surpassed for accuracy' - it is now in the Ontario provincial archives

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