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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
SEAGER, GEORGE LEIGHTON (BARON LEIGHTON of St. Mellons), (1896 - 1963), merchant and shipowner (London Regiment) and subsequently gave voluntary service with the secretariat of the Ministry of Food. He returned to Wales to join his father and eldest brother in the numerous family businesses. He paid particular attention to shipping and was soon looked on as an expert in this field. In 1929 he was economic adviser to the Government on a mission to Canada. He became director of numerous companies
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
SHEEN, ALFRED WILLIAM (1869 - 1945), surgeon and first Provost of the Welsh National School of Medicine Field Hospital during the South African War, while during the First World War he commanded the 34th (Welsh) General Hospital, mainly in India, with great distinction. He was awarded the CBE at the end of the war. Required to resign from the Infirmary (by then known as the King Edward VII Hospital) in 1919 because of arcane retirement rules then in force Sheen worked for a short time in London before
SHEPHERD, DONALD JOHN (1927 - 2018), cricketer Australian team at Swansea. A testimonial was awarded to him by Glamorgan in this season. He gave loyal support to the various captains under whom he played, and Tony Lewis, captain of the Glamorgan team which won the County Championship in 1969, described him as 'the perfect adviser both on the field of play and in the dressing room'. In that year his 81 wickets contributed significantly to the team's
SIDNEY, Sir HENRY (1529 - 1586) Penshurst, Kent, president of Wales was maintained by his family. His heir (Sir) PHILIP SIDNEY (1554 - 1586) was presented at 12 to the lay rectory of Whitford, Flintshire, worth £60 a year. His second son and ultimate heir ROBERT SIDNEY (1563 - 1626), later earl of Leicester, married (23 September 1584) Barbara Gamage, heiress of the Glamorgan estate of Coyty, and became Member of Parliament (1585 and 1592) and Justice of the Peace
SION CAIN (c. 1575 - c. 1650), herald bard also to his family. His manuscripts became the property of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, who corresponded regularly with him. Nearly forty letters which were addressed to him on genealogical matters have survived (Peniarth MS 327), together with collections of his poems (Peniarth MS 90, Peniarth MS 116, Peniarth MS 117), a heraldic collection (Peniarth MS 149), and a genealogical collection (Peniarth MS
SION CENT (1367? - 1430?), poet Practically nothing is known about his life. It may be confidently asserted that his name was Siôn Cent although he has been called Siôn Gwent (e.g. by Gruffydd Robert), Siôn y Cent, and Siôn Kemp(t). He is also called Doctor in many of the manuscripts, but not in the earlier ones. The reason for these variants is that in the folk memory of Herefordshire and the marches he got mixed up with Dr
SION LEIAF Syr (fl. c. 1480), poet and cleric attributed in various other manuscripts to Dafydd ap Gwilym, and also to Robert Leiaf, a relative of Syr Siôn).
SIÔN ROBERT LEWIS - gweler ROBERTS, JOHN
SKENE, WILLIAM FORBES (1809 - 1892), Scottish historian and Celtic scholar Born 7 June 1809 at Irvine, Inverness-shire, and died 29 August 1892 in Edinburgh. In 1868 he published The Four Ancient Books of Wales, containing Welsh verse from ' The Book of Aneirin ', ' The Book of Taliesin ', ' The Black Book of Carmarthen ', and part of ' The Red Book of Hergest '; the verse was translated for him by D. Silvan Evans and Robert Williams. This work was an attempt at
SMYTH, ROGER (1541 - 1625), Roman Catholic priest and Welsh translator students, against the English (see under Clynnog, Morys). The English won, and Smyth was dismissed from the college because he refused to express his readiness to be ordained priest, and to return to England as a missionary. After this, his history becomes obscure; perhaps he was assisted by his friends Gruffydd Robert and Owen Lewis. It is likely that there is some foundation for the statement made in Y

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