SALISBURY, ENOCH ROBERT GIBBON (1819-1890), lawyer and bibliophile;
b. 7 Nov. 1819, eldest son of Joseph Salisbury of Bagillt, Flints. From humble beginnings, he rose (after a period at Liverpool) to become manager of the Chester gas undertaking, and a prominent man in the public life of that city. In 1850 he turned to the law, becoming a member of the Inner Temple; he was called in 1852, and built up a flourishing practice at the Parliamentary Bar. For a short period (1857-9) he was Liberal Member of Parliament for Chester. He collected a very large library of books on Wales and the Marches; today, the bulk of this collection forms the ‘Salisbury Library’ at Cardiff University College, but the University College at Bangor also has a good many books of Salisbury's. His wife was a daughter of the Independent minister, Arthur Jones (q.v.) of Bangor. Salisbury d. at Saltney, 17 Oct. 1890. His son, PHILIP SALISBURY (d. early in 1906) had an adventurous career, first as a soldier in the Serbian army and afterwards in the service of the Belgians on the Congo.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D., F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor.
