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teulu SPURRELL, printers married Elizabeth Margaretta, daughter of Thomas Thomas, Frowen, near Llanboidy. WILLIAM SPURRELL (1813 - 1889), printer and publisher Printing and Publishing The third son of Richard and Elizabeth Spurrell, was born 30 July 1813 at 13 Quay Street. From 1821 until 1829 or 1830 he was a pupil in the Queen Elizabeth grammar school, Carmarthen. He was apprenticed, 1 November 1830, to John Powell Davies, 58
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist Born 22 September 1882 in Northam, Devon, youngest son of William and Mary Stapledon. He was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, receiving his M.A. in botany in 1904. After working in the family's commercial office in Cairo for about two years he spent a year as a student on a large fruit farm in Kent. In 1908 he returned to Cambridge to follow a
STEEGMAN, JOHN EDWARD HORATIO (1899 - 1966), author of books on art and architecture Gwendoline Davies bequest. He came to Wales as a specialist on British portraiture and his main contribution to the Museum was his survey of portraits in Welsh houses. His Survey of portraits in North Wales houses (1955) was published after he had left Wales; the survey of south Wales was completed by R.L. Charles and published in 1961. He published a number of articles and other books on art, including
STENNETT, ENRICO ALPHONSO (1926 - 2011), race relations activist, businessman, dancer suburbs for sharing his enjoyment and expertise in ballroom and jive dancing. Enrico found an ideal partner in Mary Ann Knowles, (1953-2018) also light-footed on the dance floor. They married in 1974, two years after his first wife's death. In 1995 Enrico and Mary moved to north Wales away from the stress arising from assaults and abuse he suffered from his race equality work in Wolverhampton. They
STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author Born at Merthyr Tydfil, 23 April 1807. Originally a Calvinistic Methodist, he was baptized by J. P. Davies, Tredegar, 3 July 1825, and started to preach at about the same time. He was admitted to Abergavenny Baptist Academy in 1828, and was ordained at Mount Pleasant, Swansea, 25 April 1831, subsequently moving to Newport (1840), Manchester (1845), and Abercarn (1849). He died at Sketty, 24 April
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, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator about Welsh literature and culture. As an obituarist he recorded the lives of his notable contemporaries in The Independent; these were collected in three volumes, Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries (2008), Welsh Lives (2012) and More Welsh Lives (2018). His biography Rhys Davies: A Writer's Life (2014) won a Wales Book of the Year award. He was founder and secretary of the Rhys Davies Trust
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer were Maria Jane Williams and the Quaker Thomas Redwood (author of The Vale of Glamorgan. Scenes and Tales among the Welsh). Having first attended an elementary school 'located in a barn' near Cefn Rhigos, Stephens spent about three years at the Unitarian school founded by David Davis (1745-1827), which during his time there was under the care of John Davies, the former minister of Capelygroes in
STEPHENS, THOMAS (1821 - 1875) Born 21 April 1821 at Tan-y-gyrchen (known as Ty-to-cam =the house with the crooked roof), Pont Neath Vaughan, Glamorganshire, son of Evan Stephens, boot-maker, and Margaret, daughter of William Williams, Unitarian minister of Blaen-gwrach. He spent about three years at the school kept by John Davies (1795 - 1858) at Newcastle Emlyn, and this was all the systematic education he ever had. In 1835
teulu STEPNEY Prendergast, The family was founded by Alban Stepney, a Hertfordshire man and son of Thomas Stepney of S. Albans by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Winde of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Educated at Cambridge and Clement's Inn, it is said that he came to Wales as a young lawyer in the employ of bishop Richard Davies during the visitation of 1559. On 31 December 1561 the bishop appointed him receiver-general of
teulu STRADLING Somerset was EDWARD STRADLYNG, who was knighted in 1327. He had married Ellen, daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert Strongbow (brother to the earl of Pembroke), before 1317. He was ordered to seize the goods late of Hugh le Despenser in Glamorgan, 1330. In 1337 he witnessed a grant of lands in Glamorgan to the church of S. Mary, Tewkesbury. He held offices in Somerset and Dorset and was Member of
SUNDERLAND, ERIC (1930 - 2010), academic Eric Sunderland was born in Blaenau near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire on 18 March 1930, the second son of Leonard Sunderland (1898-1990), Sanitary Inspector to Amman Valley Council, and his wife Mary Agnes (née Davies 1901-1997). His elder brother was Terence Raymond Sunderland (1921-2012). Eric was educated at Amman Valley Grammar School; University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1947-50), BA

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