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SCOTT-ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN (8th BARON HOWARD DE WALDEN, 4th BARON SEAFORD), (1880 - 1946), landowner and sportsman, writer, and patron of the arts
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian of his being lost in the world of birds, insects, molluscs, and fishes. Perhaps the great turning point of his life was his visit (October 1900) to the old home of Joshua Thomas the historian at Leominster, and examining the manuscripts that still remained there. But before that, in 1898-9, four articles of his had appeared in Seren Cymru on Morgan John Rhys; then came three articles in Cymru for
SHEEN, ALFRED WILLIAM (1869 - 1945), surgeon and first Provost of the Welsh National School of Medicine succeeded Sheen to the chair at Cardiff, A. L. d'Abreu, who became professor of surgery at Birmingham and R. V. Cooke who became senior surgeon to the United Bristol Hospitals. The distinguished surgeon Sir Clement Price Thomas, who became president of the Welsh National School of Medicine during the 1960s, later related how these men all told him 'what a wise and generous chief he was, always at hand to
SHEEN, THOMAS (1718 - 1790), Methodist exhorter, afterwards an Antinomian round Builth. He is said to have influenced others, such as Moses Lewis and Thomas Meredith. It is believed that the doctrines preached by him and his associates were a mixture of mysticism and Monophysitism (or, perhaps, Apollinarianism). One of his followers, Walter Watkin of Brecon, wrote an elegy in his memory. He died 28 February 1790.
SHEPHERD, DONALD JOHN (1927 - 2018), cricketer Don Shepherd was born at Port-Eynon on the Gower Peninsula, on 12 August 1927, the eldest of the three children of Jack Shepherd and his wife Lillian (née Howell). The family later moved to Parkmill, 7 miles nearer to Swansea, where his parents were responsible for running the family shop and where Don helped with the daily delivery of newspapers. He married Joan Maureen Evans in 1953, and they
SHORT, THOMAS VOWLER (1790 - 1872), bishop of St Asaph
SIANCYN FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1470), poet A native, presumably, of South Wales. Nothing is known of his life, but a few of his poems remain in manuscript. These include two cywyddau to Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dynevor when he was a young man (Peniarth MS 83 (70), Llanstephan MS 30 (435)). His son, Dafydd Fynglwyd, was also a poet.
SIBLY, Sir THOMAS FRANKLIN (1883 - 1948), geologist and university administrator Born 25 October 1883 in Bristol, son of Thomas Dix Sibly and his wife Virginia (née Tonkin). He was educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, and at St. Dunstan's, Burnham-on-sea, and gained a 1st-class hons. degree in experimental physics (University of London) at the University College of Bristol in 1903. He turned to geology at Birmingham University and he was Exhibition Research Scholar at
SIDDONS, SARAH (1755 - 1831), actress in the Chester theatre in May 1772, joined Kemble's company soon afterwards, but his wish to marry Sarah was opposed by her parents and by a Brecon gentleman, named Evans. Siddons appealed in verse to the Brecon audience and was dismissed from the company. He married Sarah Kemble at Coventry on 26 November 1773. Mrs. Siddons's successful career is well known - a detailed account is given in the
SILS ap SION (fl. end of the 16th century), bard own hand) in Llanover MS. B 6. Most of this work consists of cywyddau to William Evans, died 1589/90, treasurer and chancellor of Llandaff, one of the chief patrons of the bards in Glamorgan in those days. The bard's work is not of a very high standard. The collection includes one extempore englyn which Sils ap Siôn composed when a group of bards met before William Evans and Thomas Lewis of Llandaff
SIMMONS, JOSEPH (1694? - 1774), Independent minister, and schoolmaster Samuel Jones (fl. 1715-64) at Pen-twyn, whose orthodoxy was dubious. Simmons sent his own son to Abergavenny Calvinistic Academy, and Edmund Jones was present at the young man's ordination; but the ' Old Prophet ' was deeply vexed (diary of 1789) when Joseph Simmons took part in the ordination of the 'heretical' Edward Evans at Aberdare. In 1750, Simmons removed his dwelling from Hendreforgan to
SIMON, BEN (c. 1703 - 1793), dissenter and copyist the group of copyists greatly influenced by Iaco ab Dewi. His most celebrated manuscript, 'Tlysau'r Beirdd' (NLW MS 5474A) was written between 1747 and 1751, and his well-known collection of Dafydd ap Gwilym's works (NLW MS 5475A) in 1754. Some of his other manuscripts are in the Cardiff City Library and at Oxford. His books and manuscripts were bought by Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) in 1790, and

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