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SALISBURY, ENOCH ROBERT GIBBON (1819 - 1890), lawyer and bibliophile a short period (1857-9) he was Liberal Member of Parliament for Chester. He collected a very large library of books on Wales and the Marches; today, the bulk of this collection forms the ' Salisbury Library ' at Cardiff University College, but the University College at Bangor also has a good many books of Salisbury 's. His wife was a daughter of the Independent minister, Arthur Jones of Bangor
SAMUEL, EDWARD (1674 - 1748), cleric, poet, and author Born in Cwt-y-Defaid in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire. He came to the notice of Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor, who helped with his education and advised him to prepare for orders. He went to Oxford, matriculating from Oriel College, 19 May 1693, as 'pauper puer'; Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, describes him as B.A. He became rector of Betws Gwerfil Goch, 4
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian ; in 1885 he was accepted as a student at Llangollen college, but (by a new arrangement) he and two others were allowed to enter the new University College at Bangor; at the end of his first year he was among the prizemen. From 1888 to 1891 he was minister at Mold, from 1891 to 1904 at Rhyl. During his stay at Bangor he was a frequent visitor to Puffin Island, and for a time there was a real danger
SION LEIAF Syr (fl. c. 1480), poet and cleric Son of Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf of Denbighshire, and a descendant of Owain Gwynedd (Peniarth MS 127 (20)). No details regarding his life are known, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript. These include two religious poems, one being a confession and the other a poem on the vernicle, a poem in praise of Richard Kyffin, dean of Bangor, a love poem, and another to the owl. (The last one is
SMITH, THOMAS ASSHETON (1752 - 1828) Vaenol, Bangor, landed proprietor and quarry owner
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
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet Born 30 September 1878, in Penygroes, Caernarfonshire, son of Urias Stephen, railway signalman, and his wife, Anne. Robert received his early education in Penygroes, Clynnog, and the secondary school at Oswestry. He went to Bangor University College in October 1896. He then taught in the elementary school, Cyffylliog, in 1899 and then returned to Bangor, where he graduated in Welsh in 1903. He
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator learning Welsh, and was taught by Islwyn Ffowc Elis while undertaking teacher training at Bangor University. He taught at Ebbw Vale 1962-66. One night at the Old Arcade pub in Cardiff he met Harri Webb; Stephens's jacket caught fire from a cigarette lighter and Webb doused him with a pint of Guinness. The two had much in common - poetry, European literature, nationalism, a Valleys sensibility - and
SUNDERLAND, ERIC (1930 - 2010), academic Chair in that subject in 1971, holding it until 1984 while also serving as the university's Pro-Vice Chancellor (1979-1984). In 1984 he became Principal of the University College of North Wales, Bangor (being redesignated Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor a decade later) and retired in 1995. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the (federal) University of Wales 1989-1991. He was awarded an
TELFORD, THOMAS (1757 - 1834), civil engineer Caledonian Canal. So expert was he in roadmaking and bridgebuilding that he was asked by the Government to give attention to the road leading from Shrewsbury to Holyhead - the Irish mail route, the ' Holyhead road ' as it is still called, and, particularly, to consider the question of erecting a bridge over the Menai Straits to replace the (often) dangerous Bangor Ferry. He designed a bridge over the Menai
teulu THELWALL Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, Law Seventh son of John Wynn Thelwall, entered Balliol College, Oxford, 16 October 1581, aged 20, and graduated B.A. [from S. Mary Hall ] on 28 February 1584. He was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1591, and became chief clerk to Sir Daniel Dunne, judge of the prerogative court; a proctor of the court of arches, and registrar of Bangor. He sat as Member of Parliament for Denbigh from February to April
THODAY, DAVID (1883 - 1964), botanist, university professor Botany at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he remained until he reached the age of retirement in 1949. After retiring he became Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Alexandria, Egypt, but returned to Bangor in 1955. He obtained a Sc.D. degree at Cambridge, was elected F.R.S. in 1942 and received an hon. D.Sc. of the University of Wales in 1960. He published Botany: a

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