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SALMON, HARRY MORREY (1891 - 1985), conservationist, naturalist, soldier Kodak, took some 250 photographs on the Western Front, the collection now being in The Welch Regiment Museum in Cardiff Castle. He was mentioned in despatches at the beginning of 1918 and in the King's Birthday Honours List of June he was awarded the Military Cross, to which was added a bar for bravery in battle in November. The citation reads: He displayed great courage and devotion to duty during
SAMWELL, DAVID (1751 - 1798), naval surgeon and poet , which was published in 1786 after his return to England; this work is considered an important source-book by biographers of Cook. This book also included Samwell's attempted refutation of the (now widely accepted) theory that Cook's crews introduced sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and gonorrhoea into Hawai'i, eventually contributing to significant Indigenous depopulation. From 1780 to 1796
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author , her awareness of the difficulties they faced and her faith in their potential now became evident. Through her own efforts and those of other female members the Women's Section of the Forward Movement was founded in Llandrindod in 1903. In the same year S.M.S. launched a branch for the Women of Swansea, where she and her husband were by now living with his widowed mother (sister of Dean Howell, St
SHAND, FRANCES BATTY (c.1815 - 1885), charity worker widowed since there is no mention of her husband. By 1859, John had relocated to Cardiff, and was involved with the Rhymney Railway Company. It is likely that Frances moved with him, although there is no proof of her residence in the town until the census of 1861, which notes that she was living at Park Place. By 1871, her sister Milbrough, now clearly described as a widow, together with two female
SHEPPARD, ARNOLD ALONZO (1908 - 1979), boxer birth in 1909), Joseph Sheppard (b. 1911). The house at 35 Sophia St (now demolished) housed four families in seven rooms. In his early teens Sheppard went to work as a miner in the Ferndale and Maerdy area of the Rhondda Valleys, and became one of the rare group of Black miners, men who were almost written out of the history of the Welsh coalfields. When Sheppard first took up boxing is not clear
SIDDONS, SARAH (1755 - 1831), actress Born 5 July 1755 at 'The Shoulder of Mutton' (now 'The Siddons'), Brecon, the eldest of eleven children of Roger Kemble and Sarah Ward. Both parents were members of John Ward's band of strolling players that had recently performed at Brecon. The company continued to play on both sides of the Welsh border, and Sarah's early years were spent with them. William Siddons, a Walsall man who had played
teulu SOMERSET Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, Powis castle and his intimacy with the duke of York, later James II (Hist. MSS. Com., 14 th R., ix, 370, Ormond, n.s. iv, 459, vi, 262, Popham, 258). At home he was hotly opposed by John Arnold and Sir Trevor Williams, who had local grievances over Wentwood forest (now exploited intensively by the marquess for iron smelting) and Chepstow garrison respectively; he removed Arnold and seven other
teulu SPURRELL, printers its Neighbourhood, 1860 (2nd ed. 1879). As he was now a substantial printer and publisher it is not surprising that he was well acquainted with such writers as Daniel Silvan Evans, Morris Williams (Nicander), John Rowlands (Giraldus), etc. He married, 1846, Sarah, daughter of Evan Walter, Bryn-bach. Two of his sons became clergymen, a third was a doctor, whilst a fourth, Walter Spurrell (below
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist tour in Australia and New Zealand: Grassland and other studies (1928); The hill lands of Britain: development or decay? (1937); The plough-up: policy and ley farming (1941); Make fruitful the land: a policy for agriculture (1941); The way of the land (1943); Disraeli and the new age (1943). But, without doubt, his masterpiece was his book The land now and tomorrow (1935). He married Doris Wood Bourne
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator Aberystwyth in 1963. He was a serial graffiti warrior and painted the original 'Cofiwch Tryweryn' slogan near Llanrhystud, an image now viewed as iconic. He is pictured carrying Gwynfor Evans aloft at his famous Carmarthen by-election victory in 1966. Stephens was himself Plaid's candidate for Merthyr at the general election that year, though this marked the close of his direct political career. He married
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer Monmouthshire Merlin. He was one of the very few who gave voice to the unpopular view that 'voluntary exertions would be insufficient to provide education for the very large number of children who now remain uneducated'. For this, he was denounced by representatives of Church and Chapel alike as 'a maniac and a liar'. During the 1850s Stephens became one of the two main instigators of a Welsh orthography
teulu TALBOT Margam Abbey, Penrice Castle, churches; it was Emily Talbot who arranged for Walter de Gray Birch, of the British Museum, to arrange and catalogue, in six printed volumes, the greater part of the Margam and Penrice muniments (now in N.L.W.). Their brother, THEODORE MANSEL TALBOT, had pre-deceased his father.

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