Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 IEUAN AB EINION (sheriff 1389), Ieuan by HYWEL VYCHAN, HYWEL by RHYS AP HYWEL. Rhys ap Hywel, of Bron y Foel, was followed by HYWEL AP RHYS (see The history of the Gwydir family), and this Hywel ap Rhys by RHYS AP HYWEL, who in turn was followed by THOMAS AP RHYS, who inherited, through his mother, extensive lands in Hopesland, Flintshire, which, however, he sold. CADWALDR AP THOMAS, his son was
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
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist Born in Aber-erch, Caernarfonshire, his mother being the daughter of John Roberts (Siôn Lleyn, 1749 - 1817; the artist was also related to John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion, 1786 - 1859. He was apprenticed to a carpenter but, as he displayed some talent for painting, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau, Meironnydd, brought him to the notice of Sir Martin Archer Shee, the painter, who gave him
ELLIS, JOHN (1674 - 1735), cleric and antiquary Second son of Thomas Ellis of Llandegwning, Llŷn, and his wife Jane Marsh, widow of Herbert Griffith, Brynodol. He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, 31 March 1690, at the age of 16, graduated B.A. in 1693, M.A. (and a Fellow) in 1696, S.T.B. in 1703, and S.T.P. c. 1720, was ordained a deacon 7 September 1707, and a priest 4 July 1708, and was presented to the rectorate of Llandwrog 30
ELLIS, JOHN GRIFFITH (1723/4 - 1805), Methodist exhorter , Trefollwyn (1718 - 1773?), writes, every evening. Siarl Marc was the superintendent of south Caernarvonshire societies in 1750; Ellis, therefore, may well have been the man turned out by Harris in 1749. But he was exhorting again in 1751, as Thomas William of Eglwys Ilan (1717 - 1765) reports to Harris; he was also one of the trustees of Ty Mawr chapel, appointed in 1752; it is also reported that he

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