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teulu SALUSBURY Rug, Bachymbyd, and the Denbighshire lands to his second surviving son Charles. William was one of the king's staunchest supporters in the Civil War; he repaired Denbigh castle at his own expense in 1643, and, although advanced in years, defended it stubbornly against the Parliamentary army. It was not until 26 October 1646, after a siege lasting six months, that he was forced to surrender the castle to general
SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician Born 1881 in Fforest-fach, Swansea, son of Thomas Samuel, a rollerman at Cwmbwrla Tinplate Works. He left Cockett elementary school at the age of 11 to work at Charles colliery, Fforest-fach. A colliery accident in 1906 left him lame and affected his health for the rest of his life. It was this accident that changed the course of his life, for he took to reading when he was bedridden. He
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author Sara Maria Saunders was born in March 1864 in Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the eldest of the ten children born to landowners Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Mary (1869-1918), Annie Jane (1873-1942) an international peace campaigner, and Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Bertie (1865-1879), David Charles
SAUNDERSON, CHARLES (1810? - 1832), poet - gweler SAUNDERSON, ROBERT
SAUNDERSON, ROBERT (1780 - 1863), printer and publisher He served his apprenticeship at Liverpool but afterwards went to the printing-office at Chester which printed Welsh books for Thomas Jones (1756 - 1820) and Thomas Charles - see under John Humphreys (1734? - 1829). In 1803 Charles and Jones decided to begin printing at Bala, and Saunderson was engaged to work there. Thomas Jones, in 1804, withdrew from active participation and Charles carried on
SCOTT-ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN (8th BARON HOWARD DE WALDEN, 4th BARON SEAFORD), (1880 - 1946), landowner and sportsman, writer, and patron of the arts Wrexham and who went to Jamaica in the reign of Charles II, is given in Debrett, Burke, and other works on the peerage; the additional name of Scott was adopted by the 8th baron in 1917. He married 1912, Margherita Dorothy, daughter of Charles van Raalte, and they had 6 children. He lived for years at Chirk Castle, Denbighshire; in 1929 he bought the Old Hall at Croesnewydd, near Wrexham, which had been
SHEPPARD, ARNOLD ALONZO (1908 - 1979), boxer Arnold Sheppard was born on 14 May 1908 at 35 Sophia St, Butetown, Cardiff (the area known as Tiger Bay), the third child of Alonzo Sheppard (b. 1885), a merchant seaman from Barbados, and his wife Beatrice Louisa (née Eley, 1887-1948) of St. Fagans, Cardiff. Arnold's siblings were: Beatrice Eley (b. 1906, uncertain father), William Charles Sheppard (1907-1978), Lucy Sheppard (died shortly after
SHORT, THOMAS VOWLER (1790 - 1872), bishop of St Asaph . He resigned his see 8 January 1870, and died 13 April 1872 at Gresford vicarage; he was buried at S. Asaph. He had married (1833) Mary, daughter of Charles Davies and widow of J.J. Conybeare. His numerous publications were on theological and educational subjects. Education was perhaps his main interest, and he contributed liberally from his official and private income towards building schools in
SIDDONS, SARAH (1755 - 1831), actress sources at the end of this article. She died from erysipelas on 8 June 1831. After her early years, her connections with Wales were limited to occasional visits to Brynbella, in the vale of Clwyd, the home of her friend, Mrs. Piozzi. Her sister Julia Anne Hatton, and her brother Charles Kemble, are separately noted.
SILVERTHORNE, THORA (1910 - 1999), nurse and trade unionist Oxford, making lasting friendships with leading communists such as historians Christopher Hill and Chris Thorneycroft. Thora was one of a team of medical staff from Oxford who attended to the needs of the hunger marchers (many from Wales) that passed through the city. After qualifying she moved to a sister's position at the Hammersmith Hospital, London, teaming up with Dr. Charles Brook of the SMA and
teulu SOMERSET Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, CHARLES SOMERSET 1st Somerset earl of Worcester (1460? - 1526) The illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd duke of Somerset, beheaded by the Yorkists (1463). He was a staunch supporter of Henry Tudor, who from the beginning of his reign as Henry VII employed him about court and abroad, admitting him to the Privy Council on 14 February 1505. His advancement in Wales dates from his marriage (2 June
SPARK, THOMAS (1655 - 1692), cleric and classical scholar Lichfield. He was made rector of Ewhurst, Surrey, 1687/8, and also of Hog's Norton, Leicestershire. In 1688 he was given a prebend in the cathedral of Rochester. In addition to Latin verses in the Musae Anglicanae and in the Oxford collection of commemorative verse in honour of Charles II, Spark published editions of the Historia Nova of Zosimus, 1679, and of the extant works of Lactantius, 1684. He died

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