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teulu SALUSBURY Lleweni, Bachygraig, . His elder brother's disgrace had thrown the family into eclipse and made John the target of numerous local enemies, among them the junior branch of the family, the Salusburies of Rug, whose growing estates around Ruthin were making them serious rivals to the parent house for leadership in Denbighshire. John fought a duel at Chester in March 1593 with one of the hangers-on of the Rug house, captain
SALUSBURY, Sir THOMAS (1612 - 1643), poet and country gentleman Born 6 March 1612, eldest son of Sir Henry Salusbury of Lleweni, the 1st baronet, and Hester, daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton. He went to Jesus College, Oxford, but did not graduate. He joined the Inner Temple, November 1631, with the intention of studying law but, when his father died at the end of July 1632, he returned to Lleweni to look after the estate. He was elected a burgess of Denbigh
SAMUEL, DAVID (Dewi o Geredigion; 1856 - 1921), schoolmaster and writer Born 1 March 1856 at Aberystwyth, the son of Edward Samuel. He was educated at Aberystwyth National school, Aberystwyth grammar school (Edward Jones), Llandovery College, University College, Aberystwyth (1873), and Clare College, Cambridge, which he entered with a mathematical scholarship in October 1875. He won several prizes and graduated in January 1879, being placed twentieth wrangler. He
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 1837, aged 10 months; (2), 9 June 1829, Catherine Joseph, also a widow, of Merthyr Tydfil (died 1841?). His will (dated 29 March 1838, proved 30 March 1840) refers to property at Merthyr Tydfil and mentions his wife Catherine; his brother John; his son Thomas ('who is missing and reputed to be dead'); his sisters Mary, Sarah, Elinor, and Gwen; another sister Martha, deceased, and her children, Thomas
SAUNDERS, ERASMUS (1670 - 1724), divine Born in the parish of Clydey, north Pembrokeshire, the son of Tobias Saunders of Cilrhedyn, Pembrokeshire, and Lettice Phillips of Penboyr, Carmarthenshire. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 20 March 1690 (graduated B.A. 1693, M.A. 1696, B.D. 1705, and D.D. 1712. As a student he aided Edward Lhuyd in the collection of archaeological information regarding Pembrokeshire and
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
SAUNDERSON, ROBERT (1780 - 1863), printer and publisher periodicals. There is a portrait of him on p. 219 of the second volume of Y Tadau Methodistaidd. Saunderson's small diary is kept at N.L.W. (NLW MS 16370A). Frances his unmarried sister, was buried in St. John's churchyard, Chester, 29 November 1801. Of his sons, the eldest was CHARLES SAUNDERSON (1809 - 1832), ('Siarl Wyn o Benllyn') poet Poetry Born 15 March 1809 and christened 28 March. He died of
SCARROTT, JOHN (1870 - 1947), boxing promoter Jack Scarrott was born at Fothergill Street, Newport, on 28 March 1870. He was the eldest son of Levi Scarrott, a basket-maker, and his wife Fiance (née Smith). After a brief period when employed as a booth boxer, Scarrott married Priscilla Loveridge of Cardiff on December 15 1890 at St. Catherine's Church in Pontypridd, and then started his own boxing booth which he built at the Mill Field
teulu SCUDAMORE Originally one of the lesser families of the March, having been settled in Ewias since the early 12th century, two branches in particular, those of Holm Lacy and Kentchurch, in time emerged as leading gentry in the modern history of the county of Hereford. At one period the Kentchurch branch also became intimately linked with events in Wales. In the 13th century they acquired property within the
SHEEN, ALFRED WILLIAM (1869 - 1945), surgeon and first Provost of the Welsh National School of Medicine determination and his death on 28 March 1945, at the age of 75, was particularly untimely as he was actively engaged in planning the post-war development of the school in line with the recommendations of the ground-breaking Goodenough Committee (1944). The manner of his demise was characteristic of his indomitable spirit. He had struggled from his home to the medical school, an exhausting journey of some four
SHIPLEY, WILLIAM DAVIES (1745 - 1826), cleric Born at Midgeham, Berkshire, 5 October 1745, son of Jonathan Shipley (below) and Anna Maria his wife. He was educated at Westminster and Winchester, and matriculated 21 December 1763 at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1769 and M.A. in 1771. He was ordained deacon 11 March 1770 by bishop Yonge of Norwich, and priest by his father 18 March; one day later he was appointed vicar of

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