Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EINION OFFEIRIAD (fl. c. 1320), the person whose name is associated with the earliest Welsh grammar or metrical grammar which we possess that is, a work dealing with the art of metrics and giving an abbreviated version in Welsh of the Latin grammar used in the Middle Ages. He sang an awdl to Rhys ap Gruffydd ap Hywel ap Gruffydd ab Ednyfed Fychan (died 1356); this belongs to the period 1314-22. Thomas Wiliems maintains in NLW MS 3029B that he was a native of Gwynedd and that he compiled the grammar in honour and in praise ('yr
ELDRIDGE, MILDRED ELSIE (1909 - 1991), artist unclear, she had by this point left London for Oswestry, where she taught at the High School for Girls, and then Chirk, where she taught at Moreton Hall School. It was here in 1937 that she met the local curate, Rev. R. S. Thomas, and they were married in Bala in 1940. She had had far more experience of the world than her new husband-she had travelled in France as well as Italy - and was also much
ELIAS, JOHN (1774 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and famous preacher nature, he could not be easily opposed. He entertained ultra-Calvinist views on Election and the Atonement. For a time he preached what was called a 'limited' Atonement, i.e. that the merits of the death of Christ exactly balanced the sins of the Elect, and of them alone; and he opposed men like Thomas Jones (1756 - 1820) of Denbigh and John Jones (1796 - 1857) of Tal-y-sarn, whose views were more
ELIAS, THOMAS (Bardd Coch; 1792 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymn-writer
ELIAS, WILLIAM (1708 - 1787), poet According to David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), he hailed from Clynnog - Elias ap Richard of Talhenbont smithy was his father, says J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees). He is said to have started life as a shoemaker, and the list of subscribers to the Diddanwch teuluaidd, 1763, and an occasional note in the manuscripts (e.g. Wynnstay MSS. 7, 105, 131, etc.), confirm this. Later, he became a farmer and land
ELLICE, ROBERT, Royalist soldier January 1643 (on royal orders) he seized Chirk castle, the seat of the Roundhead Sir Thomas Myddelton and commanded 600 Welsh Royalist infantry at Middlewich, Cheshire (March 1643), where they were defeated and Ellice captured. Released in September 1643, he was given command for the king over Denbighshire and Flintshire with 1,200 men, at the head of whom he took part in operations round Wem (March
ELLICE, THOMAS, governor of Barbados - see ELLICE, ROBERT
ELLIOT, Sir GEORGE (1815 - 1893), BARONET, owner and developer of coalmines Born at Penshaw, Gateshead, co. Durham, in March or June 1815, one of the six children of Ralph Elliot, under-manager of Whitefield colliery and his wife Elizabeth (née Braithwaite). At the age of 9 he began working 14 hours a day underground. When he was 19 years old he went as a promising trainee to the office of Thomas Sopwith, underground inspector at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, returning to
ELLIS family Bron y Foel, Ystumllyn, Ynyscynhaearn ), daughter of Ellis Wynn ap Robert, Rhwng-y-ddwyryd. Griffith and Margaret Ellis were the parents of Thomas Ellis (died 1673), rector of Dolgelley, and John Ellis (died 15 October 1693), chancellor of St Asaph. Owen Ellis I, by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Wynn ab Humphrey, Cesail Gyfarch, was the father of a large family, among the children being ELLIS ELLIS (died 1631), of Ystumllyn, and Robert
ELLIS, DAVID (1736 - 1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts service to his contemporaries was to translate the following English works into Welsh : The knowledge and practice of Christianity by Thomas Wilson (London, 1774); A short manual of prayers for common occasions, by James Merrick (London, 1774 and 1805); and The History of the Holy Jesus, by William Smith (Trefriw, 1776). He translated into Welsh a poem by Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), entitled The
ELLIS, EDWARD LEWIS (1922 - 2008), historian and biographer Ellis was born at Aberystwyth on 21 March 1922, one of the three children and only son of Griffith Thomas Ellis and his wife Elizabeth (née Lloyd), Cambrian Street, and the nephew of a well known local politician, Alderman R. J. Ellis (1888-1976). He was educated at Alexandra Road Primary School and Ardwyn Grammar School where he became head boy in 1940-41. He entered the University College of
ELLIS, ELLIS ab (fl. 1685-1726), cleric and poet register was made on 14 May 1693 and his last on 28 March 1725. Llandudno also was under his charge. He wrote poetry in the strict and the free metres. ' Cywydd i'r Arian ' was published in Dyfyrwch ir Cymru neu Ddewisol Ganiadau (Dublin, n.d.), and in Y Gwladgarwr, iv, 18; ' Hanes y Byd ' in Thomas Jones's Almanac, 1685; and 'Carol Plygain,' 1710, 'Hanes Llundain,' and 'Gofal Cybydd am ei Ferch,' in

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