born 0441; 1520, Cae Du, Llansannan, Denbighshire, Wales
died 0441; 1584, Llanrwst
Welsh lexicographer and translator.
He spent most of his life at Llanrwst, Wales, following antiquarian, botanical, and literary pursuits. His collection of Welsh proverbs, The Whole Sense of a Welshman's Head (1546), may be the first book printed in Welsh. Salesbury compiled the first Welsh-English dictionary (1547) and, with Richard Davies, translated the New Testament into Welsh (1567).