Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIS, JOHN (1760 - 1839), saddler and musician chapel. In 1827 he became a member of Bedford Street chapel, where again he was made precentor. He composed several anthems - ' Molwch yr Arglwydd,' ' Duw yn ddiau a glybu,' and ' Cân Moses ' are included in Y Gyfres Gerddorol, arranged by Owain Alaw. His hymn-tune ' Eliot,' 9.8, appeared under the title ' Hill Street ' in Y Dysgedydd, January 1822, and continues to be popular. At Liverpool he became a
ELLIS, RICHARD (1784 - 1824), excise officer and musician the collection is not, however, known. He composed several religious pieces. He died 10 December 1824 and was buried in Beaumaris churchyard.
ELLIS, RICHARD (1775 - 1855), musician Born at Dolgelley. He was a shoemaker by trade. He was taught the elements of music by John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr, 1740 - 1821); when the latter died Richard Ellis succeeded him as precentor at S. Mary's church, Dolgelley. He is said to have collected psalm-tunes and published them in a small volume. He composed several hymn-tunes and anthems. Few collections of hymn-tunes omit the hymn-tune
ELLIS, ROBERT (1817 - 1893), musician Born at Rhuddlan, Flintshire. When he was 17 years of age he went to Manchester, where afterwards he laboured to raise the standard of congregational singing among the Calvinistic Methodists. He composed in 1855 the hymn-tune ' Revel,' 8.7.3, which appeared in Llyfr Tonau Cynulleidfaol, 1859; a hymn-tune named ' Eliza ' composed by him had been published in 1846 in Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol. He died
ELWYN-EDWARDS, DILYS (1918 - 2012), composer Dilys Roberts was born on 19 August 1918 in Dolgellau. Her father was a musician, precentor and choral conductor, and also played the euphonium. She attended Dr Williams School in Dolgellau and took advantage of the school's strong musical tradition; it was there that she began to be interested in the music of Delius, Holst and Vaughan Williams, and also composed her first song. She was offered a
EVANS, DAVID (1879 - 1965), public servant and hymn-writer verse. His earliest work, some of which was composed when still a teenager, was written under the names 'Aeronian' and 'Gwylltaeron' and appeared in Trysorfa y Plant and other Welsh-language publications. By the time of his late twenties he was writing mainly under his own name and, even though his output diminished as his career progressed, he was still publishing verse in the Welsh-language press
EVANS, DAVID PUGH (1866 - 1897), musician 1887 he won an open scholarship tenable for three years at the Royal College of Music, London; owing to his success as a student the scholarship was extended for a fourth year. He was possessed of a fine tenor voice which, however, was affected by an illness from which he suffered when he was at college. Afterwards he settled in Swansea as a teacher of music. He composed several excellent songs, his
EVANS, DAVID TECWYN (1876 - 1957), Meth. minister Gymraeg: ei horgraff a'i chystrawen (1911) which was re-printed several times. He was editor of Yr Eurgrawn for twenty years (1931-51), which also gave him the opportunity to teach many to write correct Welsh. He composed some hymns ('Duw a thad yr holl genhedloedd ' being the best known), and translated hymns and poems, some of which appeared in Bytheiad y nef a chaniadau eraill (1927). He was co
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Fardd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir; 1731 - 1788), scholar, poet, and cleric at Bassaleg, Monmouth, when he composed the 'Englynion i Lys Ifor Hael,' the best and most famous of his poetic works. All this time he was making constant appeals to the Welsh gentry and to the learned societies of the day for funds to enable him to publish the contents of some of the more important manuscripts he had collected in the course of his life. All his appeals fell on deaf ears. To some
EVANS, JOHN (Ioan Tachwedd; 1790 - 1856), poet and Wesleyan minister He composed a considerable amount of verse, which appeared in Y Drysorfa and Yr Eurgrawn. He died 2 May 1856. John Hugh Evans (Cynfaen) was his son.
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer the days of Triawd y Coleg, he composed the tune to accompany Harri Webb's poem 'Colli Iaith'. Although he had an operation on his throat he continued to sing in his old age. He was last recorded in his home village of Tanygrisiau in 2012 on Bethel, a CD by Gai Toms (Gareth Tomos), in his studio which was Merêd's childhood chapel. He would compose poetry on special occasions and for the annual Cwrdd
EVANS, THOMAS (Telynog; 1840 - 1865), poet chapel in Cwm-bach, where he was a member. He composed freely both in the free and the strict metres, gaining many successes at local eisteddfodau under the adjudication of poets of such eminence as Islwyn and Cynddelw. At the time of his premature death from consumption at the age of twenty-five he was regarded as one of the most promising poets of Wales. Among his best-known works are the lyrics

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