Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, NESS (1897 - 1968), trade unionist and Member of Parliament volume are in the library of Nuffield College, Oxford, but this has not been published) were the best available studies on these subjects. He died 3 May 1968.
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters Bala College and then (1880-3) to Aberystwyth, where he did very well in English and history in the London University examinations (graduating in 1883), but not so well in philosophy despite his great attachment to Henry Jones (1852 - 1922), an attachment which led him to spend a session (1883-4) at Glasgow at the feet of Edward Caird. At Balliol College, Oxford (October 1884), he reverted to history
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes turnpike gate, and later keeping an inn at Llandilo. On his return to North Wales in 1786 he had to fall back once again on interlude acting, but eventually settled down at Denbigh, where he worked as a stonemason. For a short time in 1808 he was employed by W. A. Madocks on the building of the Portmadoc embankment. He died 3 April 1810 and was buried at Whitchurch near Denbigh. It was Twm o'r Nant's
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Cynonfardd; 1848 - 1927), Independent minister and eisteddfodwr health and became minister successively of Mineral Ridge Independent chapel, Ohio, 1871-2, the First Congregational Church, Wilkes-barre, Pennsylvania, 1872-8, Wilkes-barre and Edwardsville, 1878-80, Edwardsville, 1880-91, Ebenezer, Cardiff, 1891-3, and Edwardsville again, 1893-1927. In America he was one of the most successful ministers of his time, and his church was one of the largest in the States
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Callestr, Wil Ysgeifiog; 1790 - 1855), poet for an awdl (Seren Gomer, 1832, 312), and at Mold, 1823, for an englyn. His elegy on Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) in 1853, printed in Golud yr Oes, 1863, 112-3), was written in the asylum. Much of his work is scattered through the pages of Seren Gomer, Y Gwladgarwr, Yr Eurgrawn, Y Geninen, and Cymru (O.M.E.). He published a volume, Cell Callestr (Trefriw, 1815), of his own poetry and that of others
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Padarn; 1786 - 1857), poet ', without, however, acknowledging the controversial and repugnant nature of his activity during this period. He was buried at Llanberis 3 October 1857. His son, Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn), is separately noticed.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM CAMDEN (1777 - 1855), engraver is said to have been born in Monmouthshire. At the age of 25 he went to Bungay in Suffolk, where he worked as an engraver for Brightly, the publisher of an illustrated edition of the Bible, which appeared in 1804, and illustrated editions of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress which appeared in 1805 and 1808. Although he engraved also a number of illustrations of Scriptural subjects and several
EDWIN family Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, The original owners of this estate, and the builders of its Tudor manor-house, were the THOMAS family, on whom see G. T. Clark, Limbus Patrum, 272-3; at some time before 1687 the estate was sold to HUMPHREY EDWIN (1642 - 1707), a very wealthy Londoner of whom a full account appears in the D.N.B. Sir Humphrey (knighted, and sheriff of Glamorgan, in 1687, lord mayor of London in 1697) was a
ELDRIDGE, MILDRED ELSIE (1909 - 1991), artist Mildred Eldridge was born at 35 Dunmore Road, Wimbledon, London, on 1 August 1909, the daughter of Frederick Charles Eldridge (1874-1960), a jeweller, and his wife Mildred Mary (née Chevalier, 1871-1961). Her one brother, Frederick (1906-1980), had a career in insurance. In 1925 the family moved to 3 Bridge Street, Leatherhead, where they lived in accommodation over her father's jewellery shop
ELFODD (d. 809), bishop whose name appears in the forms ' Elbodugus ' and ' Elbodg ' (Harleian MS. 3859), and ' Elvodugus ' (Nennius), representing Old Welsh ' Elbodu(g),' is famous for his adoption (in 768, according to Harleian MS. 3859) of the Roman Easter, which the Welsh Church had rejected in 602-3. The traditions concerning his origins vary, but a connection with the monastery of Cybi at Holyhead is asserted in
ELLIS, ELLIS ab (fl. 1685-1726), cleric and poet Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry, 1759. Some of these poems, as well as various englynion by him, are preserved in the following manuscripts: NLW MS 9B, NLW MS 255A, NLW MS 432B, NLW MS 434B, NLW MS 436B, NLW MS 653B, NLW MS 2621C, NLW MS 3487E, NLW MS 10744B, NLW MSS 13063B; Cwrtmawr MS 5B; Cardiff 47, 64; Swansea 3 (155); B.M. Add. MSS. 14875, 14987, 14992. He translated a short prose work, Britain's Timely
ELLIS, LEWIS (1761 - 1823), musician appears in the corporation of Beaumaris records: 'Year ended Michaelmas 1796. Voucher, Lewis Ellis for what ordered to be given him out of the Corporation Fund, towards satisfying him for an organ built by him for the use of Beaumaris church, £10.10.0.' He was organist of the church until 1800. He died 25 March 1823 and was buried in Beaumaris churchyard.

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