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SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher . Vaughan Thomas). He also published books of cerdd dant settings by Haydn Morris and Llyfni and Mallt Huws. He lost a large proportion of his stock during the air raids over Swansea in 1941, but he continued to publish after the war. Unlike some of his predecessors in the field, Snell was a publisher only, and never printed any works. He was regarded as one of the keenest of businessmen, and was known as
teulu SOMERSET Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, . Thomas Prichard, a correspondent of James Howell - while allowing the superior of the Jesuits, Robert Jones (born 1564), to live under his wife's protection at Raglan : but all his children ultimately followed their mother's faith. Thomas Wiliems of Trefriw, the lexicographer, says of him: ' ni rusia ddywedyd cymraec, a'i hymgeleddu, a'i mawrhâu yn anwylgu Frytanaidd.' HENRY SOMERSET 5th earl of
SOMERSET, FITZROY RICHARD (4th BARON RAGLAN), (1885 - 1964), soldier, anthropologist, author election to the presidency of the Folklore Society. Ten years later he was president of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and had been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Meanwhile he turned his full attention to Wales and the archaeological field, occupying a succession of key positions at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. In 1947-51 he was chairman of the
SQUIRES, DOROTHY (1915 - 1998), popular singer She was born in a mobile home in Bridge Shop Field, Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire on March 25 1915, to Archibald James Squires, a steelworker, and his wife Emily (née Rickards). The couple had married in Newport in 1911. Dorothy's original name was Edna May Squires. She was raised in the village of Dafen near Llanelli, and it was at the Ritz Ballroom, Llanelli that she made her first appearance as
STAPLEDON, Sir REGINALD GEORGE (1882 - 1960), agricultural scientist director of the one for Grassland and Field Crops founded in Aberystwyth in 1927. In addition he was also the director of the Cahn Hill Improvement Scheme set up in 1933 to convert the results of minor experiments to improve the uplands of the hill-country of Cardiganshire into a large-scale practical project located on part of the Hafod Uchtryd estate in Cwm Ystwyth. In 1942 he left Aberystwyth to
STENNETT, ENRICO ALPHONSO (1926 - 2011), race relations activist, businessman, dancer interests included establishing boarding houses for new migrants and setting up restaurants based on his professional expertise in the building trade. He was a member of trade unions for these professions. Enrico Stennett and Margaret Stone (1923-1972) married in 1950 and finally divorced in 1960, due to his neglect of the family. They had two children: Robert Anthony and Paul Raymond. In 1950, along with
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet Born 30 September 1878, in Penygroes, Caernarfonshire, son of Urias Stephen, railway signalman, and his wife, Anne. Robert received his early education in Penygroes, Clynnog, and the secondary school at Oswestry. He went to Bangor University College in October 1896. He then taught in the elementary school, Cyffylliog, in 1899 and then returned to Bangor, where he graduated in Welsh in 1903. He
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer reform, a subject debated since the misguided efforts of William Owen Pughe. Following a meeting at the 1858 Llangollen Eisteddfod Stephens and Robert John Pryse (Gweirydd ap Rhys) circulated questionnaires that led to the publication of Orgraph yr Iaith Gymraeg in 1859, a valuable forerunner of articles on the same subject published by Sir John Morris-Jones in Y Geninen in the 1890s. These efforts
teulu STRADLING of the … Earl of Bedford, 1592; Two bookes of constancie … Englished by J.S., … 1595; De vita et morte contemnenda libri duo, 1597; J. Stradlingi epigrammatum libri quatuor … 1607; Beati Pacifici; a divine poem … 1623; and Divine Poems, 1625 (containing commendatory verses by Theophilus Field, bishop of Llandaff). He left in manuscript an account of litigation over lands in Glamorgan, written
SULLIVAN, CLIVE (1943 - 1985), rugby league player also captained the Wales Rugby League team. In all, Sullivan represented Great Britain 17 times and appeared at three World Cups, 1968 and 1972 with Great Britain, and in 1975 for Wales. His length of the field try in the 1972 World Cup final against Australia is regarded as one of the game's finest. He was the last person to lift the World Cup for Great Britain as since then the home nations have
SUNDERLAND, ERIC (1930 - 2010), academic and CBE in 2005. He was made a Freeman of Bangor in 2005. Eric Sunderland died from pancreatic cancer in Beaumaris, Anglesey, his final place of residence, on 24 March 2010. His funeral was held at Bangor Cathedral. Some people make their contribution by a single-minded and exclusive concentration upon a particular field of scholarship or activity. That was not Eric's way. The value of his life, and
SYMONDS, RICHARD (1609 - ?), Puritan preacher leave Wrexham. In 1638-9 many Puritans, including Symonds, found refuge at Brampton Bryan with Sir Robert Harley and his wife Brilliana. When the Civil War broke out, he is heard of at Bristol, also preaching at Andover, and for a time holding the living of Sandwich in Kent. In 1646 Parliament resolved to make an effort to evangelize South Wales, and for that purpose sent three missionaries there

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