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SAMWELL, DAVID (1751 - 1798), naval surgeon and poet to reveal a headstrong and intolerant nature. He assisted in the task of collecting for publication the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym and of Huw Morys. A portrait of Samwell is reproduced in the first article noted below.
SCOTT-ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN (8th BARON HOWARD DE WALDEN, 4th BARON SEAFORD), (1880 - 1946), landowner and sportsman, writer, and patron of the arts operatic libretti. Among his works are: Children of Don (1912), Pont Orewyn (1914), Lanval (1915), Dylan (1919), The Cauldron of Annwn (1922), The Cauldron of Annwn, including the story of Bronwen (1929), Five Pantomimes (1930), Song of Gwyn ap Nudd [ 1913 ]. He had previously published Banners, standards, and badges: from a Tudor manuscript in the College of Arms, and Some feudal lords and their seals
teulu SCUDAMORE married Maud, daughter of Gruffudd ap Nicolas of Newton, Dynevor. The Kentchurch and other properties were subsequently restored to their issue.
SEFNYN (fl. second half of the 14th century), poet He sang the praises of Tudur ap Goronwy of Trecastell and Penmynydd (died 1367), and an elegiac awdl on his fellow Anglesey poet, Iorwerth ab y Cyriog, who fl. around 1360. He also sang the praises of the wives of his patrons, such as Angharad, ' Dafydd's spouse.' His work has survived only in a confused state in the manuscripts. He was probably the father of the poet Gwilym ap Sefnyn.
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
SEISYLL ap CLYDOG (fl. 730), king of the combined realm of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi According to early pedigrees he was a descendant of Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig who is assumed to have been the first Brythonic ruler of Ceredigion to which he gave his name. At first king only of Ceredigion, Seisyll later added to his kingdom those parts of ancient Dyfed known as Cantref Mawr, Cantref Bychan, and Cantref Eginog, or collectively as Ystrad Tywi. Hence the name Seisyllwg was often
SEISYLL BRYFFWRCH (1155 - 1175), poet The earliest known event in his career is the bardic contest against Cynddelw for the office of chief court poet to Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys (died 1160). The englynion of this contest are to be found in the Hendreg. MS. (71b-72a) and in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales (154a) Seisyll declares in one of these englynion that he is of the stock of Culfardd, who is probably to be
SHANKLAND, THOMAS (1858 - 1927), bibliophile and historian Llanbadarn, his article on Stephen Hughes in the Beirniad, his articles on the Quaker John ap John in Cymru, besides his many articles on the authorship of hymns and the story of hymn-tunes, regardless of denomination. He insisted on doing full justice to the efforts of the Church of England in the field of education in the days before the Methodist revival, in his exhaustive article on Sir John Philipps
SIANCYN FYNGLWYD (fl. c. 1470), poet A native, presumably, of South Wales. Nothing is known of his life, but a few of his poems remain in manuscript. These include two cywyddau to Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dynevor when he was a young man (Peniarth MS 83 (70), Llanstephan MS 30 (435)). His son, Dafydd Fynglwyd, was also a poet.
SILS ap SION (fl. end of the 16th century), bard To judge by one reference in his cywydd on husbandry, it may be thought that he lived (as Iolo Morganwg maintained) not far from the confines of Radyr and Llandaff. One book of pedigrees refers to a Sils ap Siôn who lived in the commote of Miskin - it is possible that this may have been the bard. A small collection of his work and that of some of his contemporaries, is preserved (probably in his
SIMON, BEN (c. 1703 - 1793), dissenter and copyist the group of copyists greatly influenced by Iaco ab Dewi. His most celebrated manuscript, 'Tlysau'r Beirdd' (NLW MS 5474A) was written between 1747 and 1751, and his well-known collection of Dafydd ap Gwilym's works (NLW MS 5475A) in 1754. Some of his other manuscripts are in the Cardiff City Library and at Oxford. His books and manuscripts were bought by Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) in 1790, and
SIMWNT FYCHAN (c. 1530 - 1606), poet Martial on 'the happy life' with a Welsh translation in cywydd metre by Simwnt Fychan. This translation was made at the behest of his patron, Simon Thelwall, Plas-y-ward, Ruthin. He was buried, 13 April 1606, at Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd; elegies on him were composed by Siôn Phylip, Edwart ap Raff, and Thomas Evans of Hendre Forfudd

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