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teulu SOMERSET Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, of Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar successfully disputed the claim of the 5th duke (HENRY SOMERSET, 1744 - 1803) to possession of its wharf, while Monmouth itself threw over the municipal domination of the 6th duke, HENRY CHARLES SOMERSET (1766 - 1835), in 1818. A challenge to his son in the borough election to the Parliament of 1820 - memorable because John Frost, the future Chartist, supported it
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
STANLEY, HENRY EDWARD JOHN (3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley and 2nd Baron Eddisbury), (1827 - 1903), Diplomat, translator and writer, hereditary peer Henry Stanley was born on 11 July 1827 in Cheshire. He was the first of the ten children of Edward John Stanley (1802-1869), the second Baron Stanley of Alderley and first Baron Eddisbury, who served as a Whig Member of Parliament and Paymaster General, and his wife Henrietta Maria (née Dillon-Lee, 1807-1895), Baroness Stanley of Alderley, who campaigned for the education of women. Henry Stanley
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author stayed in Liverpool at the house of another aunt for a short time before he shipped for New Orleans, U.S.A., ostensibly as a cabin-boy. There he was befriended by a merchant named Henry Stanley, whose name he adopted as his own. He joined the Confederate (Southern) Army during the American Civil War; he also served, later, in the American navy. About this time he became fairly prominent as a newspaper
STENNETT, ENRICO ALPHONSO (1926 - 2011), race relations activist, businessman, dancer
STENNETT, STANLEY LLEWELLYN (1925 - 2013), musician, comedian, actor . Eventually he found himself in the Combined Services Entertainment Unit, and this was his crucible. After demob, Stennett played in a number of bands, going on the variety circuit full time. He also joined the cast of Welsh Rarebit, with other regulars such as Sir Harry Secombe, Wyn Calvin, Eynon Evans, Gladys Morgan and Maudie Edwards. He married Elizabeth Rogers in 1948, and they had two sons, Roger (b
STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author 1852. He married (1), 17 November 1835, Hannah (3 September 1814 - 2 August 1842), fourth child of Joseph Harris (Gomer); (2), 6 December 1843, Mary Wilson, daughter of David Morgan, Swansea. Stephen was a prominent preacher, but is best remembered for his literary and theological works. He published (1) Dwyfoliaeth … Iesu Grist … Pregeth, 1834; (2) Ffurf Priodas Ymneillduwyr, 1838 (with D. Rees
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen portraits of men such as George Essex Evans, Dewi Emrys, Dylan Thomas and Dyfnallt, there is a translation by him of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, ' Le Retour' (January 1921); a warm appreciation of the contribution of Professor Edmund Crosby Quiggin, the Celtic scholar, and a study on the Celts and warfare (Summer 1956 : a translation by D. Eirwyn Morgan of ' Keltic War Gods ' that was published in
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator two literatures. In collaboration with figures such as T. J. Morgan, Roland Mathias, Glyn Tegai Hughes and M. Wynn Thomas a stable publishing environment was established, literary magazines were born (some stillborn), writers were supported and a lively exchange programme placed Welsh writing in an international context. The future Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott was recipient of a Wales Arts
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer Ceredigion. In October 1835, Stephens was apprenticed to David Morgan, a Merthyr Tydfil pharmacist, on whose death in 1841 he took over the business at 113 High Street, which remained his main source of income throughout his life. In 1866, Stephens married Margaret Elizabeth Davies, a descendant of a well-known family of Unitarians from Penrheolgerrig (see Morgan Williams, 1808-1883) in Llangollen Parish
teulu STEPNEY Prendergast, Haverfordwest, 1640-3. In 1662 he was mayor of Haverfordwest and deputy lieutenant of county Pembroke in 1674. His wife was Magdalen, daughter of Sir Henry Jones of Abermarlais. He died before 26 September 1676. His nephew, Sir JOHN BAPTIST STEPNEY (died 1681), the 4th baronet, married Justina Marianna, daughter of Sir Anthony Vandyke, the painter. Their son, Sir THOMAS STEPNEY, the 5th baronet, married
teulu STRADLING . They adopted a kinsman who inherited the estate on Sir Edward's death in 1609 - Sir JOHN STRADLING, son of Francis Stradling of S. George, Bristol, son of Henry Stradling, second son of Thomas Stradling (died 1480) and Jenet Mathew. This JOHN STRADLING received his education at Oxford (B.A. 1584), and travelled on the Continent. He was sheriff of Glamorgan 1607, 1609, 1620, and was knighted 1608, and

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