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SANDBROOK, JOHN ARTHUR (1876 - 1942), journalist Berry family above) and died a bachelor, 13 February 1942.
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
SEYLER, CLARENCE ARTHUR (1866 - 1959), chemist and public analyst and calorific values could readily be extracted. For this highly specialised work the South Wales Institute of Engineers awarded him its Gold Medal in 1931 and in 1937 the Bar to it. In 1941 he was awarded the Melchett Gold Medal of the Institute of Fuel. After much heart searching he left Swansea, the true town of his adoption over a period of 50 unbroken years, at the end of 1942, in order to
SKAIFE, Sir ERIC OMMANNEY (1884 - 1956), brigadier and patron of Welsh culture , Dolgellau. He was an ardent eisteddfodwr and took a keen interest in Welsh culture. He was received as a member of the Gorsedd and was elected a vice-president of Urdd Gobaith Cymru in 1942. In 1946 he presented five harps, known as ' the Crogen harps ' to the Urdd for young harpists to learn their craft. His Welsh speeches were unadulterated with English words, but he was not a fluent speaker and his
SOUTHALL, REGINALD BRADBURY (1900 - 1965), oil refinery director there except for short absences abroad. He saw the works grow to become the company's second largest refinery in the U.K., whilst he progressed from being works manager in 1942, to become a director in 1950. In 1960 he also became director of British Hydrocarbon Chemicals, Ltd., whose plant at Baglan Bay was fed by the Llandarcy refinery. He was a wise counsellor and was deeply involved with
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist the Plant Breeding Station between 1919 and 1942, in association with committed colleagues of his own choosing, that Stapledon accomplished his life's major work - work which enormously influenced the art, science and indeed the principles of grassland management throughout the world. The Agricultural Bureaux of the Empire (later the Commonwealth) were established in this period with Stapledon as
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet captain from Borth-y-Gest. They had three children, (2) in Caxton Hall, London, on 8 January 1942, to Mary Elizabeth Owen, widow of Captain Ralph D. Owen, army officer, and daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth Thomas, Gelli Haf, Maesycwmmer. The Gelli Haf family was very famous in Monmouthshire, and connected in some way with the family of William Thomas ('Islwyn'). After his second marriage, he began to
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen , October 1914). In 1916 he received an invitation to become the minister of the church at Union Street, Carmarthen. He served that church for a period of forty-one years. He was the president of the Union of Welsh Independents, 1942-43 and the Dean of the faculty of theology of the University of Wales, 1955-57. He contributed widely to Welsh periodicals. In Y Geninen, apart from the reviews and the
SUTTON, Sir OLIVER GRAHAM (1903 - 1977), meteorologist 1938. He was engaged in the organization of research and development of weapons during World War II (1941-47), with a constructive influence on the Porton wartime programme (1942-43), being Superintendent of Tank Armament Research (1943-45) and superintendent at the Radar Research and Development Establishment, Malvern (1945-47). As Bashforth Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Royal Military
TEILO (fl. 6th century), Celtic saint identical with that given in the 'Book of Llandaf' except for certain important omissions. Canon G. H. Doble showed in 1942 that the Vespasian A. xiv life is almost certainly the original of which that in the ' Liber Landavensis ' is an expanded form. In the latter it is clear that the tradition of Teilo's monastery at Llandeilo-fawr, and most of its property, had been deliberately transferred to the
THODAY, DAVID (1883 - 1964), botanist, university professor Botany at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he remained until he reached the age of retirement in 1949. After retiring he became Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Alexandria, Egypt, but returned to Bangor in 1955. He obtained a Sc.D. degree at Cambridge, was elected F.R.S. in 1942 and received an hon. D.Sc. of the University of Wales in 1960. He published Botany: a
THOMAS, BENJAMIN BOWEN (1899 - 1977), adult educator and civil servant . These were responsible appointments in the circumstances of the Second World War. Thomas served also on the Board of Education's Advisory Committee on the Training of Teachers and Youth Leaders (1942-1944). He was Permanent Secretary, the Welsh Department, Ministry of Education (1945-1963), and was appointed Knight Bachelor in 1950. Under Thomas's leadership and following the 1944 Education Act that

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