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SAMUEL, EDWARD (1674 - 1748), cleric, poet, and author ], Wynstay [sic], and (d) Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys (Caerlleon, Roger Adams, 1731), being versions of two separate works, the one by Peter Nourse, and the other by William Wake, archbishop of Canterbury. A facsimile of a letter written by Samuel (1 March 1703/4) to Edward Lhuyd can be seen in Richard Ellis, Facsimiles of Letters of Oxford Welshmen.
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer ministry at Merthyr Tydfil was a great success, and he is recorded to have baptized 510 persons there in the period 1816-36. He married (1), 23 June 1815, Margaret Jenkins, a widow, of Dol-wlff, Llanwenog. Their only child, Thomas, was born 19 August 1816. She died April 1817, Thomas was lost in the docks at Bristol, 12 October 1837, and Thomas's infant daughter, Mary, was buried at Zion, 12 September
SAUNDERS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1724), divine collegiate Church of Christ, Brecon. Saunders was married at Blockley in 1714 to Dorothy, daughter of Humphrey Lloyd of Aberbechan, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, by whom he had seven children. He died of apoplexy at Aberbechan, 1 June 1724, and was buried in S. Mary's, Shrewsbury, on 5 June. There is a lengthy inscription on his tomb in this church, and, in the church at Blockley, there is a mural tablet
SAYCE, GEORGE ETHELBERT (1875 - 1953), journalist and newspaper proprietor 1901 he married (1) Eleanor Richards (died 1910) and they had a son and three daughters. He married (2), in 1914, May Walsh and they had a son and daughter. His last years were spent in Pontrilas where he died 7 October 1953 and was buried at Kenderchurch, Herefordshire.
SCARROTT, JOHN (1870 - 1947), boxing promoter . Scarrott ceased promotions at Bargoed Skating Ring after May 1918, and returned to running his travelling boxing booth. He afterwards leased the famous Mountain Ash Pavilion for 6 months in November 1918. Although Jack Scarrott continued to put on occasional boxing contests as late as the 1930s, following World War 1 his attentions turned more to running fairground attractions. Jack Scarrott passed away
SEIRIOL (fl. c. 500- c. 550), founder and first abbot of Penmon church son of Owain Danwyn ab Einion Yrth ap Cunedda Wledig, and so a second cousin of king Maelgwn Gwynedd and of the same age as the latter. According to Anglesey tradition, he was a great friend of Saint Cybi. Seiriol was the chief saint of the Dindaethwy district in Anglesey and also of Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire; his feast day, according to the earliest calendars, was 1 February
SHADRACH, AZARIAH (1774 - 1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author large number of popular books of a homiletic nature bearing long and allegorical titles - (1) Allwedd Myfyrdod, 1801; (2) Breuddwyd … un o drigolion Bethsemes, 1802-3?; (3) Drws i'r Meddwl Segur, 1804; (4) A Looking-glass, 1807; (5) Perlau Calfaria, 1808; (6) Clorianau Aur, 1809; (7) Blodau Paradwys, 1810; (8) Trysorau'r Groes, 1811; (9) Goleuni Caersalem, 1812; (10) Rhosyn Saron, 1816; (11) Udgorn y
SIBLY, Sir THOMAS FRANKLIN (1883 - 1948), geologist and university administrator , LL.D. hon. causa Wales, Liverpool and Bristol. He married Maude Evelyn Barfoot in 1918 and they had 1 son. He died in Reading 13 April 1948.
SIMON, BEN (c. 1703 - 1793), dissenter and copyist There is a record of the burial of ' Benjamin Simon, a Pauper,' at Abergwili, 1 March 1793, and Iolo Morganwg has left for us in his ' Agricultural Observations,' 1795 (NLW MS 13115B, i.e. Llanover MS. C 28) a picture of the old man in his poverty. Iolo says that he was 90 years of age at the time of his death and that he had been a bookbinder by trade. Another tradition, however, has it that he
SIMON, JOHN ALLSEBROOK (1st VISCOUNT SIMON of Stackpole Elidor), (1873 - 1954), judge and politician . Many of his ensuing judgements are models of lucid and comprehensive expositions of the law. He married (1), 1899, Ethel Mary Venables (died 1902) and they had one son and two daughters; (2), 1917, Kathleen Manning (née Harvey); he died 11 January 1954. His publications include his memoirs, Retrospect (1952), and Income Tax (5 vols.; 1950).
SION CERI (fl. 1500?-1530?), poet His full name was Siôn ap y Bedo ap Dafydd ap Hywel ap Tudur. (Bodl. Welsh, c.4, 27b). Poems attributed to him are found in Bodewryd MS 1D; Esgair MS. 2; Brogyntyn MSS. 1, 2, 3; Cwrtmawr MS 204B, Cwrtmawr MS 244B, Cwrtmawr MS 448A; Peniarth MS 69, Peniarth MS 77, Peniarth MS 82, Peniarth MS 84, Peniarth MS 86, Peniarth MS 87, Peniarth MS 98, Peniarth MS 100, Peniarth MS 103, Peniarth MS 112
SION CLYWEDOG (fl. c. 1610-1630), poet Poems attributed to him are found in Swansea MS. 1; Wynnstay MS. 3; Cwrtmawr MS 21B, Cwrtmawr MS 27E, Cwrtmawr MS 448A; Peniarth MS 87, Peniarth MS 91, Peniarth MS 92, Peniarth MS 114, Peniarth MS 144, Peniarth MS 151, Peniarth MS 327; Llanstephan MS 133, Llanstephan MS 145, Llanstephan MS 155, Llanstephan MS 156; NLW MS 3061D; Wrexham MS. 3; NLW MS 5269B, NLW MS 8330B, NLW MS 11993A; Cardiff MSS

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