Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIS, THOMAS (fl. 1824), poet One of his poems is preserved in NLW MS 1899C (46): 'Verses on the pleasure of singing with the harp,' to the tune of 'Morwynion Glan Meirionnydd,' a subject proposed by J. Parry, of London, at the Denbigh eisteddfod, 7 October 1824.
ELLIS, THOMAS (1711/12 - 1792), cleric minister, of a rather strict and puritanical type, and a warm supporter of Griffith Jones's schools; there are many letters of his in Welch Piety, including a sharp condemnation of John Evans of Eglwys Cymyn (1702 - 1782); he seems to have acted as a sort of supervisor of the schools in Anglesey, and was one of the half-dozen Welsh clerics appointed by Griffith Jones to receive contributions towards the
ELLIS, THOMAS EDWARD (1859 - 1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5) Son of Thomas Ellis and Elizabeth his wife. He was born at Cynlas, Cefnddwysarn, near Bala, 16 February 1859. He was educated at the British School, Llandderfel, and at the grammar school, Bala, where his contemporaries included D. R. Daniel, O. M. Edwards, and J. Puleston Jones. In January 1875 he entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he remained till 1879. In October 1880
ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN SCOTT - see SCOTT-ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN
ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author and the reorganisation of local government. He visited Welsh societies in England regularly and initiated the publication of Yr Angor as a liaison between them and Wales. He edited three volumes of The Letters of T.C. Edwards (1952-53). He wrote a biography of his father, Cofiant T.E. Ellis (vol. i, 1944; ii, 1948), Cofiant J.H. Davies (1963), Cofiant Ellis Jones Griffith (1969); and Ym mêr fy
ELLIS, THOMAS PETER (1873 - 1936), judge (I.C.S.) and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law
ELLIS-GRIFFITH, Sir ELLIS (JONES) (1860 - 1926), barrister and M.P. Born 23 May 1860 in Birmingham, where his father, Thomas Morris Griffith, was a builder. While Ellis Griffith was still a child, his father retired and the family came to live at Ty Coch, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey. He went to school at Brynsiencyn and Holt and was one of the first batch of students at the University College, Aberystwyth. He graduated in the University of London when he was 19 years
EMERY, FRANK VIVIAN (1930 - 1987), historical geographer . I.) 'The central English scarplands and Oxford', in Steers, J. A. (ed.) Field Studies in the British Isles (Thomas Nelson & Son, London) pp. 106-19 1965 'Edward Lhuyd and his Glamorgan correspondents: a view of Gower in the 1690s', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1965: 59-114 1967 'The farming regions of Wales', in Finberg, H. P. R. (ed.) The Agrarian History of England and
ENDERBIE, PERCY (c. 1606 - 1670), historian and antiquary Author of Cambria Triumphans; second son, according to Lincolnshire Pedigrees (Harleian Society), of Thomas Enderby, attorney, of Lincoln, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Rusforth, Coley Hall, Yorkshire. Percy Enderbie's wife was Winifred, sister of Sir Edward Morgan of Llantarnam, Monmouth, daughter of lady Frances, daughter of the 4th earl of Worcester. Enderbie lived many years in
EOS GLAN TWRCH - see EDWARDS, JOHN
EOS GLAN WYRE - see LEWIS, JOHN
EVAN(S), EDWARD (1716 - 1798), Presbyterian minister and poet , (1) in 1744 to Margaret Thomas of Penderyn (died April 1774), and (2) c. 1776 to Mary Llewelyn of Rhigos (died 1824) - of this marriage there were two sons, Edward (1776? - 1862) and RHYS (1779 - 1867); Rhys was of some literary note and an eisteddfodwr. During his lifetime Edward Evan(s) published (1) a Welsh translation of one of Samuel Bourn's catechisms, 1757; (2) a translation in metre of the

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