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SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician West, defeating Sir Alfred Mond by 115 votes in December 1923, but losing the seat to Walter Runciman in October 1924, regaining it in May 1929, and losing it once again by more than six thousand votes to Lewis Jones in October 1931. He became one of the foremost barristers of his day in Wales. He gained prominence in workers' compensation cases and was chairman of the South Wales conscientious
SAMUEL, WILLIAM THOMAS (1852 - 1917), musician Born 17 October 1852 at Carmarthen. He attended a local day school and then received some instruction at the hands of the Rev. Lewis Lewis and Alcwyn Evans. He started to learn the Tonic Sol-fa notation when he was quite young and succeeded in gaining many certificates, eventually becoming L.T.S.C., and a member of the council. He attended music classes at Aberystwyth College under Dr. Joseph
SAUNDERS, DAVID (1831 - 1892), Calvinistic Methodist minister, preacher, educationist, and defender of Protestantism Theological College in 1891. His wife was a daughter of John Howell of Pen-coed, Glamorganshire, father of dean David Howell.
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
SHADRACH, AZARIAH (1774 - 1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author in 1798. Dr. George Lewis, Llanuwchllyn, persuaded him to settle in the North. He kept school at Hirnant, Pennal, Derwen-las, and Trefriw, and preached wherever he had the opportunity. In 1802 he was ordained minister at Llanrwst, moving in 1806 to take charge of the churches at Tal-y-bont and Llanbadarn-fawr, Cardiganshire. He set up regular preaching for Independents at Aberystwyth in 1816, and
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian He was born in Llanginning parish, Carmarthenshire, 14 October 1858, and attended Pwll-trap school; by 1876 he was at Bala working as a shoemaker, and coming into contact with the great men of the place like principals Lewis Edwards and Michael D. Jones. In 1879 he was baptised by immersion; in 1882 he commenced preaching with the Baptists, and then went for a period to S. Clears grammar school
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
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 Born c. 1694 at Foxhall, Llansamlet, Glamorganshire, and educated at Carmarthen Academy under Perrott. In 1724 he was appointed assistant-pastor to Roger Howell at Cwmllynfell and Gellionnen. He is found keeping school at Neath in 1730, and Lewis Rees was a pupil of his there. In August 1738 we find Howel Harris staying a night with ' Jos. Symons, near the Abbey at Neath.' Simmons is said to have
SION ap HYWEL ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN, poet A poet of this name composed an elegy on the death of Tudur Aled c. 1526. Poems attributed to him are found in Bodewryd MS 2B; Cwrtmawr MS 242B; NLW MS 552B, NLW MS 566B, NLW MS 832E, NLW MS 1024D, NLW MS 1246D, NLW MS 1553A, NLW MS 2288B, NLW MS 5273D, NLW MS 6209E, NLW MS 6495D, NLW MS 6499B, NLW MS 6681B, NLW MS 8330B; and B.M. Add. MSS. 14966, 14969, 14976, 14978. See also Lewis and Jones
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