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RUMSEY, WALTER (1584 - 1660), judge Parliament for Monmouthshire in the Short Parliament, 1640. He was a royalist, was imprisoned when Hereford city fell in December 1645, and was deprived of his judgeship in 1647. In 1660 he was made Keeper of the Seals in his former circuit, but died before the end of that year, and was buried in the family vault at Llanover. He made hobbies of music, the grafting of trees, and the construction of
RUSBRIDGE, ROSALIND (1915 - 2004), teacher and peace campaigner School, where he was director of music. They moved to Bristol in 1948 when Ewart joined Bristol Grammar School, and there the family remained. Rosalind worked as a part-time teacher for most of her career, mainly in Clifton High School for Girls, not retiring until she was almost 70. Her early socialism and Christian-pacifism never left her and she campaigned ceaselessly for human rights. Labour Party
SALESBURY, HENRY (1561 - 1637?), grammarian Born in Henllan parish, Denbighshire, his family being a branch of the old Lleweni family. He graduated in Oxford University (S. Alban Hall), studied medicine, and followed the profession of a physician. Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd refers to him as ' medicus doctis annumerandus.' In 1593 he published his Welsh grammar, Grammatica Britannica (London). It is also recorded that he had begun another
SALMON, HARRY MORREY (1891 - 1985), conservationist, naturalist, soldier much of his childhood the family lived at Heol Don, Whitchurch where, aged nine his interest in birds was awakened by the discovery on the way to school of a blackbird's nest. Salmon's bird diary commenced in 1903 when he listed the birds' nests he had found. With his friends Bert Evans and Alex Lawrence he bird watched along the nearby Glamorgan Canal and soon further a field. In 1908 aged seventeen
SALUSBURY, JOHN (1575 - 1625), Jesuit and scholar Born in Merionethshire, 1575, a member possibly of the Salusbury of Rug family. He went to the Jesuit College at Valladolid, 22 June 1595, was ordained priest 21 November 1600, and was sent in May 1603 to England where, in 1605, he joined the Society of Jesus. When Fr. Robert Jones died in 1615, Salusbury succeeded him as Superior of the North and South Wales District and went to live at Raglan
teulu SALUSBURY Rug, Bachymbyd, This family was founded at Bachymbyd, between Ruthin and Denbigh, at the close of the 15th century by JOHN SALUSBURY, fourth son of Thomas Salusbury of Lleweni (died 1471). It acquired Rug by the marriage of John's eldest son PIERS SALUSBURY to Margaret Wen, daughter and heiress of Ieuan ap Hywel ap Rhys, lord of Rug, near Corwen, Meironnydd. Rug became the more important of the two seats, though
teulu SALUSBURY Lleweni, Bachygraig, There is considerable uncertainty about the origin of the Salusburies. Leaving aside both a legendary descent from the 11th century ducal house of Bavaria (with an assumed derivation of Salusbury from Salzburg) and a less high-flown but equally hypothetical derivation from Salesbury in Lancashire, there remains some evidence, slight but not easily disposed of, that the family had a Herefordshire
SALUSBURY, THOMAS (1561 - 1586), conspirator later. He and the other conspirators were arraigned before a special court at Westminster, 13 September, and Salusbury was found guilty of intending to raise a rebellion in Denbighshire should Babington's plot be successful. In spite of his strenuous denial that he had any desire to murder Elizabeth, he was executed 21 September to the terror and great grief of his family and his other friends in
SAMUEL, CHRISTMAS (1674 - 1764), Independent minister Born in the parish of Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire, in 1674. He came of a fairly well-to-do family; he succeeded to the family property and thereafter resided on it for the remainder of his life. It is thought that he attended school under William Evans at Pencader or Carmarthen. He was received into church membership at Panteg, it was there also that he started to preach. He was 14 years old when
SANDBROOK, JOHN ARTHUR (1876 - 1942), journalist Berry family above) and died a bachelor, 13 February 1942.
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer Born January 1769, at Undergrove, Lampeter, son of Thomas and Elinor Saunders, grandson of Evan Saunders, and nephew of David Saunders 'I', both preachers at Aberduar, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at local schools, including that of Dafydd Jones, Dol-wlff, Llanwenog, and was baptised by Timothy Thomas, Aberduar, in July 1784. His family were well-to-do, and he is named among the first
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author activities of Capel Gwynfil, her father being a head deacon and justice of the peace and her grandmother, when she became physically less able, supervizing the Sunday School classes from the Cwrt Mawr homestead. Under the influence of her family, especially her mother and grandmother who were strong religious presences with outgoing personalities, combined with her education in a public Methodist school in

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