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SKEEL, CAROLINE ANNE JAMES (1872 - 1951), historian Studies, ed. R.W. Seton-Watson (1924), and to T. Auden, Memorials of Old Shropshire (1908). She gained the Gamble Prize in 1914 for an essay on the influence of the writings of Sir John Fortesque. She was also one of the editors of the S.P.C.K. texts for students and arranged the Selections from Giraldus Cambrensis and the Selections from Matthew Paris, Nos. 2-3 in that series (London 1918). The
SLINGSBY-JENKINS, THOMAS DAVID (1872 - 1955), secretary of a shipping company and philanthropist presented to the college a statue by Mario Rutelli of the Duke of Windsor as Prince of Wales (the only such large statue made) and an endowment to establish a scholarship for local pupils. He also served on the court and council of the National Library of Wales to which he was a generous benefactor. He donated the marble sculpture of Sir John Williams to the Library, and a bronze war memorial to Tabernacl
SMITH, THOMAS ASSHETON (1752 - 1828) Vaenol, Bangor, landed proprietor and quarry owner Born 1752, the son of Thomas Assheton of Ashley, Cheshire, he added the name Smith to his surname when he inherited the Vaenol and Tedworth (Hampshire), estates under the will of his uncle, William Smith, son of John Smith, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1705-8. The story of how the Vaenol estate - the ancient patrimony of a branch of the Williams family of Cochwillan - came into the hands of a
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, of further honours, is still sub judice (see Dodd, Studies in Stuart Wales, 90-99, and authorities cited, p. 92 n.), but the earldom was certainly conferred informally early in 1645, when he was instructed to negotiate with the Confederate Catholics. He and his brother lord John Somerset crossed to Ireland in June, when he speedily secured the promise of military help (treaties of 25 August, 3
SOULSBY, Sir LLEWELLYN THOMAS GORDON (1885 - 1966), naval architect Born at Swansea, 24 January 1885, son of James C. Soulsby, marine surveyor. He was educated at Jarrow-on-Tyne and apprenticed there to naval architecture at the works of Palmers' Shipbuilding Co. He worked for a while with John Thornycroft and Co., a firm specialising in naval destroyer construction at Chiswick, before returning to Jarrow for five years. He married, 1911, Margaret Dickinson; they
SOUTHALL, JOHN EDWARD (1855 - 1928), printer, publisher, author; a member of the Society of Friends Born at Leominster, Herefordshire, the son of John Tertius Southall and Elizabeth (Trusted). He was educated at Weston-super-Mare and at the Society of Friends' school at Bootham, Yorkshire. He started to learn Welsh when he was quite young and became fairly proficient in the use of the language. He settled as a printer at Newport, Monmouth, in 1879, and continued to print and publish books there
SPARKS, JOHN (1726 - 1769), early Moravian
SPINETTI, VITTORIO GIORGIO ANDRE (1929 - 2012), actor, director and author Write at the National, looking at the life of John Lennon. He was a noted performer with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and gave wonderfully villainous performances in later years in the stage shows Oliver! (as Fagin) and Peter Pan (as Captain Hook). Spinetti's own one man show A Very Private Diary played all over the world. He also played Mog Edwards in the 1971 film version of Under Milk Wood
teulu SPURRELL, printers The first Spurrell to settle at Carmarthen was JOHN SPURRELL, Bath, an auctioneer who also became agent for the estate of one of the branches of the Mansel family. He and his wife Sarah (Singers) settled in the Lower Market Street (later Hall Street) during the last quarter of the 18th century. They had a son, RICHARD SPURRELL, who was clerk to the Carmarthenshire county magistrates and who
teulu STANLEY Penrhos, The Stanleys came into contact with Anglesey through the marriage of Margaret Owen of Penrhos near Holyhead to Sir John Thomas Stanley (1735 - 1807) in 1763. Margaret represented a once powerful family in commote Talybolion, one of its most vigorous members being the John Owen who died in 1712, who was strong enough to withstand the influence of the Meyrick family of Bodorgan in western Anglesey
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

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