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* Sarah Booth

.....  on 24th May 1635 she became the FIRST child to be baptised in Trinity Church, the FIRST church in Salford, England. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Richard Hollingworth, the FIRST rector of the Church. She was the daughter of Humphrey Booth, well known throughout Salford, England, for his charity work. His father was one of the founders of Trinity Church

 

* Sarah Ann Ridgeway

born 1848 died 1913

..... FIRST member of the Baha'i faith in the north of England. She was born in Stalybridge and after emigrating to America came back to England and lived and worked in Pendleton, Salford.  The Bahai's religion was founded in the 19th century from a Muslim splinter group Babism by the Persian Baha'ullah

 

* Sharon Jones

..... FIRST woman area dean of Salford. She is also chaplain at the all-male Forest Bank prison in Pendlebury and her work as area dean involves co-ordinating and caring for the Church of England clergy in Salford

 

* Sheila Whiteley

..... FIRST professor of pop in Britain in July 2000, when appointed as head of Salford University's popular music department. The university had become the first in England to offer pop degrees ten years previously. Dr Whiteley has lectured there for nine years and earned her new qualification with research into the role of women in pop culture. She has published three books on pop music

 

* Shelagh Delaney

born 1939

..... playwright and screenwriter who was born in Salford. A year after leaving school at the age of sixteen she completed her first play A Taste Of Honey , later made into a film. The film was set in Salford and told of a young girl's affair with a coloured sailor. It remains one of her best known works

 

* Sheona White

..... FIRST time that a brass band performer had won the BBC Radio Two Young Musicians of the Year Award when she carried off the prestigious award in 1996. A Salford University student, she played the horn and beat finalists from the Royal College of Music in London. Her rewards included broadcast and public concerts with the BBC Concert Orchestra

 

* Sophie Massey

..... thought to be the FIRST lady bus inspector in the country when employed at Frederick Road Bus depot in 1975

 

* Sue Berger

..... in 1980 she became Miss Great Britain and was the FIRST married woman to win the contest and at the age of 28 years, the eldest

 

* Sue Forster

.....  FIRST witness support co-ordinator in Britain in 1995 when appointed at Salford, near Manchester. A former policewoman, she was backed by 20 volunteers and provided support and advice for people before, during and after civil, criminal and family cases

 

 * Susan Sollazzi

.....  FIRST ever community development worker with the scouts in Manchester  when employed by Salford District Scouts to forge new links between the scout industry and the community

 

* Sylvia Weston

..... FIRST person to receive a Heart of Salford award posthumously when it was given for her work with the Cancer Patient Support Group aka Rendezvous based at St Ann's Hospice, Little Hulton - 2006