Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650 - 1731), Welsh-American Quaker remainder of his family. Being a man of ability, of good education and estate, and interested in public affairs, he was in 1700 elected to represent Philadelphia in the assembly of his province. He was a good and zealous worker with the Quakers, to whom he was able to minister in the Welsh language. Ellis translated into English David Lloyd's revision of Ellis Pugh's Annerch ir Cymru (Philadelphia, 1721
ELLIS, TECWYN (1918 - 2012), educationalist, scholar and author Tecwyn Ellis was born on 24 April 1918 at Cae Crydd, a smallholding on the Pale estate in Caletwr, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, the only child of David John Ellis and his wife Madge (née Edwards). As a native of Penllyn, and later of Edeirnion, his knowledge of these commotes - their history, traditions and families - was inexhaustible. He was educated at Llandderfel council school; the boys
ELLIS, THOMAS (1625 - 1673), cleric and antiquary reasons for not printing his revised edition of David Powel's Historic; and posterity (represented by the late Sir John Edward Lloyd) has dealt another blow at this reputation by declaring that the Memoirs of Owen Glendower, usually attributed to Ellis, were originally written by Robert Vaughan, and that Ellis was a mere copyist or reviser.
ELLIS, THOMAS PETER (1873 - 1936), judge (I.C.S.) and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law Custom; he also edited Rattigan's Punjab Customary Law (8th ed.). His chief publications dealing with Wales are: Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages, 1926; The Mabinogion - a New Translation (with John Lloyd), 1929; The Story of Two Parishes (Dolgelley and Llanelltyd), 1928; The First Extent of Bromfield and Yale; The Tragedy of Cymmer; The Catholic Church in Wales under the Roman Empire
ELSTAN (or ELYSTAN) GLODRYDD, founder of the fifth of the 'royal tribes' of Wales Although scarcely anything is known about him, his name may serve as the heading of a concise account (compiled entirely from Lloyd, A History of Wales) of the later lords of 'Rhwng Gŵy a Hafren' (between Wye and Severn) - the cantreds of Maelienydd and Elfael; pedigree in Lloyd, A History of Wales, 770. Elstan (A History of Wales, 406) had a son, Cadwgan, who had three sons. One of these
ELWYN-EDWARDS, DILYS (1918 - 2012), composer Turle Scholarship at Girton College, Cambridge and a Joseph Parry Scholarship at the University College in Cardiff, and chose the latter, studying under David Evans. Her compositional gifts were developed during her time at Cardiff and some of her songs were broadcast by the BBC. After taking her B.Mus. she taught for three years at Dr Williams School before gaining an open scholarship in composition
EMANUEL, HYWEL DAVID (1921 - 1970), librarian and Medieval Latin scholar Born 14 May 1921 in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, the son of William David Emanuel, schoolmaster, and his wife Margaret (née James). He was educated at Llanelli boys' grammar school and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated with honours in Latin in 1941. After five years' service overseas in the Royal Navy during World War II, he became, in 1947, an assistant keeper
EMERY, FRANK VIVIAN (1930 - 1987), historical geographer its provenance. Undoubtedly, further piquancy was due to the strangeness of that landscape compared with those of Britain, and to the fact that many of the first Europeans to experience it were Welshmen: clergymen, such as the Rev. John David Jenkins, but most particularly the soldiers of the 24th Regiment of Foot, who fought in the Zulu War and (after being renamed as the 1st and 2nd Regiments of
ENDERBIE, PERCY (c. 1606 - 1670), historian and antiquary used by David Williams in his The History of Monmouthshire, 1796, and Sir Joseph A. Bradney states in A History of Monmouthshire that the ' Pistyll MSS ' were probably the work of Enderbie. It is claimed that the pedigrees in NLW MS 1472D are copied from an earlier manuscript by him. Cambria Triumphans was reprinted in 1810. In Bliss's edition of Anthony Wood (iii, 994), Enderbie is said to have died
ENOCH, SAMUEL IFOR (1914 - 2001), minister (Presbyterian) and theological professor delivered the Davies Lecture on 'The Jesus of Faith and the Dead Sea Scrolls', and the Pantyfedwen Lecture on 'Jesus in the Twentieth Century' in 1979. Both lectures were published in booklet form. His revision of David Williams's Commentary on Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians appeared in 1966. He was a member of the New Testament and Apocrypha Panel of the New Welsh Bible from its outset in 1964
EVAN, EVAN DAFYDD (fl. 1771-9), early Methodist exhorter who lived at Tŷr-clai (or Tir-y-clai), Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire. He was celebrated in his day because of his remarkable appearance and his unconventional method of preaching; he was responsible for the conversion of the celebrated Jenkin Thomas ('Siencyn Penhydd,' 1746 - 1807). He, with others, built the first Methodist chapel at Llanfynydd c. 1771. He is called 'Evan David of Tir y Clai
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog Lewis Anwyl, vicar of Abergele, author and translator, and that Ifan Griffith's brother, Owen Griffith (died 1728), was rector of Llanfrothen.) The heir of Ifan Griffith was ROBERT GRIFFITH (1717 - 1750), his son by his first wife, Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas Meyrick, Berthlwyd, Ffestiniog. Robert Griffith, who was sheriff of Merioneth, 1742, married Ann, daughter of Thomas Lloyd Anwyl

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