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SHIPLEY, WILLIAM DAVIES (1745 - 1826), cleric . He was buried at Rhuddlan, and a life-size statue of him, with a laudatory inscription, stands in the chapter-house of St Asaph cathedral. He published a tract written by his brother-in-law, Sir William Jones, on the principles of government, and after a protracted trial on a charge of seditious libel was ultimately discharged. His father, JONATHAN (1714 - 1788), son of Jonathan Shipley of Leeds
SIARL WYN O BENLLYN (1810? - 1832), poet - gweler SAUNDERSON, ROBERT
SIMMONS, JOSEPH (1694? - 1774), Independent minister, and schoolmaster taken over Rees Price's academy at Tyn-ton when Price died in 1739 - but in 1741 at the latest he had a school at Swansea. Simmons was a Calvinist; he is named by Edmund Jones in 1741 (Trevecka letter 362) as one of the Independent ministers who supported the Methodist revival; and Edmund Jones urged Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) to go to the school kept by ' Mr. Seimons at Swanzey ' rather than to
SIMON, BEN (c. 1703 - 1793), dissenter and copyist was a bootmaker. His elegy on Griffith Jones of Llanddowror shows how greatly he, like many other contemporaries, was indebted to Jones and his schools. Simon, like so many other antiquaries and literary men of that generation, was a dissenter, and he is recorded as being a member of the chapel at Panteg, Carmarthenshire, in March 1743 (the Panteg Church Book, NLW MS 12362D). Ben Simon was one of
SION ap HYWEL ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN, poet A poet of this name composed an elegy on the death of Tudur Aled c. 1526. Poems attributed to him are found in Bodewryd MS 2B; Cwrtmawr MS 242B; NLW MS 552B, NLW MS 566B, NLW MS 832E, NLW MS 1024D, NLW MS 1246D, NLW MS 1553A, NLW MS 2288B, NLW MS 5273D, NLW MS 6209E, NLW MS 6495D, NLW MS 6499B, NLW MS 6681B, NLW MS 8330B; and B.M. Add. MSS. 14966, 14969, 14976, 14978. See also Lewis and Jones
SIÔN WYN O EIFION - gweler THOMAS, JOHN
SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher , republishing the whole under his own name. He purchased, among other items, the musical output of the publishers Isaac Jones (1835 - 1899), Treherbert; Daniel Lewis Jones ('Cynalaw'; 1841 - 1916), Llansawel and Cardigan; John Richard Lewis (1857 - 1919), Carmarthen; the North Wales Music Co., Bangor; and the National Welsh Company, Caernarfon. By 1939 he had an extensive catalogue of fifteen hundred items
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
STANLEY, Sir HENRY MORTON (1841 - 1904), explorer, administrator, and author author of this book claims that Stanley was no other than his schoolmate Howell Jones, son of Josuah Jones, bookbinder, Cenarth, in the valley of the Tivy, and that Stanley was born at Ysgar, in the parish of Betws, near Newcastle Emlyn. But lady Stanley and the writer of the detailed article on Stanley in the D.N.B. do not accept the findings of Thomas George. Stanley himself (see Autobiography) gives
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist , geology and botany by C. Bryner Jones, O.T. Jones and R.A. Yapp respectively. From 1916-18 he was director of the Official Seed Testing Station established during that period in London. Then, in 1919, he was appointed as the first director of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station and head of the Agricultural Botany department established in that period in University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. It was in
STENNETT, ENRICO ALPHONSO (1926 - 2011), race relations activist, businessman, dancer historical and contemporary contexts, he presented social, political and ethical issues, including anti-colonial practice, anti-racism, liberation and independence for African colonies. He only stopped the regular soap box practice after he set up the monthly African Voice, known as the first printed UK-based Black newspaper, that continued until Claudia Jones started the more widely circulated West Indian
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

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