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SHEPHERD, DONALD JOHN (1927 - 2018), cricketer make his way in the game'. He was described by Robert Croft, another successful Glamorgan bowler, whom he coached, as his 'mentor, idol and friend.' Don Shepherd died on 18 August, 2018, six days after his 91st birthday.
SIDNEY, Sir HENRY (1529 - 1586) Penshurst, Kent, president of Wales was maintained by his family. His heir (Sir) PHILIP SIDNEY (1554 - 1586) was presented at 12 to the lay rectory of Whitford, Flintshire, worth £60 a year. His second son and ultimate heir ROBERT SIDNEY (1563 - 1626), later earl of Leicester, married (23 September 1584) Barbara Gamage, heiress of the Glamorgan estate of Coyty, and became Member of Parliament (1585 and 1592) and Justice of the Peace
SILVERTHORNE, THORA (1910 - 1999), nurse and trade unionist native, Arthur Bryn Roberts, whom Thora greatly admired. After the Second World War Thora became Assistant Secretary of the SMA, contributing to the establishment of the National Health Service in 1945, and meeting both Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan to discuss the SMA plans. In 1946 she married Nares Craig (1917-2012) from Clitheroe, Lancashire, a fellow communist party member, engineer and
SION CAIN (c. 1575 - c. 1650), herald bard also to his family. His manuscripts became the property of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, who corresponded regularly with him. Nearly forty letters which were addressed to him on genealogical matters have survived (Peniarth MS 327), together with collections of his poems (Peniarth MS 90, Peniarth MS 116, Peniarth MS 117), a heraldic collection (Peniarth MS 149), and a genealogical collection (Peniarth MS
SION CENT (1367? - 1430?), poet Practically nothing is known about his life. It may be confidently asserted that his name was Siôn Cent although he has been called Siôn Gwent (e.g. by Gruffydd Robert), Siôn y Cent, and Siôn Kemp(t). He is also called Doctor in many of the manuscripts, but not in the earlier ones. The reason for these variants is that in the folk memory of Herefordshire and the marches he got mixed up with Dr
SION LEIAF Syr (fl. c. 1480), poet and cleric attributed in various other manuscripts to Dafydd ap Gwilym, and also to Robert Leiaf, a relative of Syr Siôn).
SIÔN ROBERT LEWIS - gweler ROBERTS, JOHN
SKENE, WILLIAM FORBES (1809 - 1892), Scottish historian and Celtic scholar Born 7 June 1809 at Irvine, Inverness-shire, and died 29 August 1892 in Edinburgh. In 1868 he published The Four Ancient Books of Wales, containing Welsh verse from ' The Book of Aneirin ', ' The Book of Taliesin ', ' The Black Book of Carmarthen ', and part of ' The Red Book of Hergest '; the verse was translated for him by D. Silvan Evans and Robert Williams. This work was an attempt at
SMYTH, ROGER (1541 - 1625), Roman Catholic priest and Welsh translator students, against the English (see under Clynnog, Morys). The English won, and Smyth was dismissed from the college because he refused to express his readiness to be ordained priest, and to return to England as a missionary. After this, his history becomes obscure; perhaps he was assisted by his friends Gruffydd Robert and Owen Lewis. It is likely that there is some foundation for the statement made in Y
teulu SOMERSET Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, . Thomas Prichard, a correspondent of James Howell - while allowing the superior of the Jesuits, Robert Jones (born 1564), to live under his wife's protection at Raglan : but all his children ultimately followed their mother's faith. Thomas Wiliems of Trefriw, the lexicographer, says of him: ' ni rusia ddywedyd cymraec, a'i hymgeleddu, a'i mawrhâu yn anwylgu Frytanaidd.' HENRY SOMERSET 5th earl of
STENNETT, ENRICO ALPHONSO (1926 - 2011), race relations activist, businessman, dancer interests included establishing boarding houses for new migrants and setting up restaurants based on his professional expertise in the building trade. He was a member of trade unions for these professions. Enrico Stennett and Margaret Stone (1923-1972) married in 1950 and finally divorced in 1960, due to his neglect of the family. They had two children: Robert Anthony and Paul Raymond. In 1950, along with
STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author Journal at Newport and edited the few numbers which appeared between 1 May and 31 July 1841. Elegies were composed on him by (1) W. Downing Evans (The Gwyddonwyson Wreath, 1853); (2) William Thomas (Islwyn), W. Ambrose (Emrys), and Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled). His library was bequeathed to his executors James Rowe and David Lloyd Isaac. A number of letters by him to William Roberts (Nefydd) are

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