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RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist Amy, Berta Ruck was related to the Darwin family, and through her mother to the Sackville-Wests. At the age of two Berta Ruck, fluent in Hindustani and English, was sent home to her Welsh-speaking paternal grandmother, Mary Ann Ruck (née Matthews, 1822-1905), who would be a dominant influence on the young Berta. She had inherited the Esgair and Pantlludw estates, overlooking the river Dyfi in
RUMSEY, WALTER (1584 - 1660), judge Born at Llanover, Monmouthshire, in 1584, son of John Rumsey and his wife Anne (David). In 1660 he went up to Gloucester Hall (now Worcester College), Oxford, and in 1603 to Gray's Inn (of which he became Bencher in 1631); he was called to the Bar in 1608, and had a very lucrative practice. In 1631 he became judge of the south-eastern circuit of the Great Sessions of Wales; he was Member of
SALESBURY, WILLIAM (1520? - 1584?), scholar and chief translator of the first Welsh New Testament their own language. His first attempt to render the Scriptures into Welsh was a translation of the lessons used in the Church Communion service, printed in 1551 under the title Kynniver llith a ban. His plans were upset for a time when the Roman Catholic faith was revived under queen Mary (1553-8), but in 1563, early in the reign of queen Elizabeth, a law was passed directing the translation of the
SALMON, DAVID (1852 - 1944), training college principal . He wrote many notes on matters of local historical interest in the Pembrokeshire weekly newspapers. In 1919 the University of Wales conferred on him the honorary degree of M.A. He married in 1876 Mary Wiedhofft of London (died 1925), and they had five children. He died on 14 December 1944 at Lampeter Velfrey in Pembrokeshire.
teulu SALUSBURY Rug, Bachymbyd, another thirty years of hard work and frugal living he paid off his debts, restored his inheritance, and even added to it. Then, because of a violent quarrel with his eldest son, OWEN SALUSBURY, over the latter's marriage to Mary, daughter of Gabriel Goodman of Abenbury, prothonotary of North Wales, William split his estates into two parts, giving Rug and the Merionethshire lands to Owen, and Bachymbyd
SALUSBURY, THOMAS (1561 - 1586), conspirator of 16 (he is not the same as the Thomas Salusbury who is mentioned by Foster, Reg. of Adm. to Gray's Inn, under the year 1573; cf. also D.N.B.). After some time at Oxford, he joined the service of the earl of Leicester, his guardian and patron, and while in London appears to have become a Roman Catholic; about 1580 he joined a group of lively young courtiers who favoured the cause of Mary, queen of
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, 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
SCOURFIELD, Sir JOHN HENRY (1808 - 1876), author Born 1808, son of Owen Philipps, Williamston, near Neyland, Pembrokeshire, and his wife Elizabeth Anne Scourfield, Moat, Pembrokeshire. He was educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxford. He was sheriff of Pembrokeshire 1833, Member of Parliament for Haverfordwest 1852-68, and for the county of Pembroke 1868-76. He married, 1845, Augusta Lort Philipps, Lawrenny, Pembrokeshire, by whom he had two
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.
SIDNEY, Sir HENRY (1529 - 1586) Penshurst, Kent, president of Wales (1625) for the county; and the estate was inherited by Leicester's descendants, of whom his grandson, the well-known historical figure, ALGERNON SIDNEY (1622 - 1683) was elected on 17 July 1646, to replace the Royalist member for Cardiff (slain at Edgehill), and sat on several Glamorgan county committees. Finally Sir Henry's daughter MARY SIDNEY (1561 - 1621) married Henry Herbert, 2nd earl of

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