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SEEBOHM, FREDERIC (1833 - 1912), historian and banker The Tribal System in Wales (1895). However, he was not included in the corresponding English volume edited by Jenkins, The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (1959). He was a member of the Welsh land commission of 1893-6, and chapter 9 of The Welsh People by John Rhys and David Brynmor Jones (1906) is mostly his work based on the findings of the commission. He died on 6 February 1912 in
SEISYLL BRYFFWRCH (1155 - 1175), poet identified with the ' Culfardd hardd hen' mentioned by Iolo Goch (I.G.E., xvii, 36). Seisyll sang elegiac odes on the death of Owain Gwynedd, and of Iorwerth Drwyndwn, a son of that prince, and father of Llywelyn the Great. This second elegy is a main source of our scanty knowledge of Iorwerth (see Lloyd, A History of Wales, 549-50). This poet also sang the praises of the 'lord' Rhys in a poem where he
SHADRACH, AZARIAH (1774 - 1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author in 1798. Dr. George Lewis, Llanuwchllyn, persuaded him to settle in the North. He kept school at Hirnant, Pennal, Derwen-las, and Trefriw, and preached wherever he had the opportunity. In 1802 he was ordained minister at Llanrwst, moving in 1806 to take charge of the churches at Tal-y-bont and Llanbadarn-fawr, Cardiganshire. He set up regular preaching for Independents at Aberystwyth in 1816, and
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian 1910. Among his best work was chapter x (on the early works of Morgan John Rhys) contributed to the Cofiant by Dr. J. T. Griffith, and chapter xxxvi on the age of John Richard Jones, written for the Cofiant by David Williams. Shankland's sympathies, however, were catholic and comprehensive, not in any way bound in by the fences of denominations, as witness his Cofiadur article on Evan Roberts of
SIDNEY, Sir HENRY (1529 - 1586) Penshurst, Kent, president of Wales He is memorable both for the length of his administration and for the combination of competence, firmness, and sympathy that marked it. He established good relations with the Welsh gentry. His interest in national culture and antiquities appears in his zeal in the preservation and collation of records at Ludlow, used by David Powel (with his strong encouragement) to supplement the collections of
SILVERTHORNE, THORA (1910 - 1999), nurse and trade unionist Thora Silverthorne was born at 170 Alma Street, Abertillery, on 25 November 1910, the fifth of eight children of George Richard Silverthorne (1880-1962), a coal hewer, and his wife Sarah (née Boyt, 1882-1927). Her father was an active member of the South Wales Miners Federation and a founder member of the Abertillery branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Her younger brother Reginald
SLINGSBY-JENKINS, THOMAS DAVID (1872 - 1955), secretary of a shipping company and philanthropist
SMITH, THOMAS ASSHETON (1752 - 1828) Vaenol, Bangor, landed proprietor and quarry owner Lodge, Berkshire, but they had no children and, after his widow's death, the Welsh estates passed into the possession of George William Duff, his niece's eldest son.
SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1894 - 1968), president of the Welsh National Opera Company Born 9 October 1894, the eldest of the three sons of William Henry and Eliza Smith, Cardiff. He attended Albany Road school before being apprenticed to the drapery trade. He began studying for a legal career by attending night classes at the technical college but following service as a gunner in World War I he joined a motor firm in London. Eventually, in 1932, he and David Bernard Morgan started
SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher . In 1916 he paid £1150 to the widow of Joseph Parry (1841 - 1903) for the stock and copyright of the works published by the composer, and about the same time he bought the business of David Jenkins, Aberystwyth, who died in 1915. During the 1920s he augmented his catalogue by buying the output of companies which had closed down and the works of composers who published their own compositions
SOSKICE, FRANK (Baron Stow Hill of Newport), (1902 - 1979), barrister and Labour politician He was born on 23 July 1902, the son of the exiled Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice who had emigrated to England in the 1890s. His father was one of the early Mensheviks who had hurried back to Russia in 1917 to join the revolution, but, when the Bolsheviks, won, had had to escape back to Britain. His mother Juliet was the grand-daughter of the artist Ford Maddox Brown, the niece of
SOUTHALL, REGINALD BRADBURY (1900 - 1965), oil refinery director Born at Bollington, Cheshire, 5 June 1900, son of the Rev. George Henry Southall, and Harriette his wife. He was educated at West Monmouth School. After spending a few years in the steel industry he joined the laboratory staff of the National Oil Refineries, (subsequently the British Petroleum Refinery (Llandarcy), Ltd.), when the Llandarcy refinery came into operation in 1921 and he remained

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