Enoch Salisbury

Enoch Robert Gibbon Salisbury (7 November 1819 – 1890) was a Welsh barrister, author and politician.

Life[]

The eldest son of Joseph Salisbury of Bagillt, Flintshire, he became a student of the Inner Temple, 7 January 1850, and was called to the bar on 17 November 1852. He went on the North Wales circuit, where he had a good practice, but his main success was as a parliamentary counsel. He was elected in the Liberal interest Member of Parliament for Chester in 1857, but was unsuccessful in contesting the seat in 1859.^[1]

Salisbury collected books relating to Wales and the border counties, and his library went to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire by purchase, in 1886.^[2] He died at his house, Glen-aber, Saltney, near Chester, on 27 October 1890, and was buried at Eccleston, Cheshire.^[1]

Works[]

Salisbury published:^[1]

• A Letter on National Education, suggested by "A Letter on State Education in Wales", 1849.
• A Catalogue of Cambrian Books at Glen-aber, Chester, 1500–1799, not mentioned in Rowlands's Cambrian Bibliography, Carnarvon, 1874.
• Border Counties Literature, a Catalogue of Border County Books in the Glen-aber Library, Chester, A.D. 1500–1882, pt. i. Chester, no date.
• Border Counties Worthies (reprinted from the Oswestry Advertiser), 1st and 2nd ser. London, 1880.

Family[]

Salisbury married, on 28 June 1842, Sarah, youngest daughter of the Rev. Arthur Jones, D.D. She died on 2 March 1879, leaving a son and five daughters.^[1]

References[]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Salisbury, Enoch Robert Gibbon". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links[]

• Enoch Salisbury's archive and personal library is held in Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University.