Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837 - 1900), Calvinistic Methodist minister, exegete and preacher matriculating in 1862 at S. Alban Hall, Oxford ] became a scholar of Lincoln College (1862-6), where he graduated with first class honours in Lit. Hum. [ M.A. 1872. At Oxford he was deeply influenced by Pattison and Jowett; he kept in contact with both as long as they lived.] He received the degree of D.D. honoris causa from the Universities of Edinburgh [ 1887 ] and Wales (1898). He married Mary Roberts in
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School foundation stone was laid for a new state-of-the-art Institute of Physiology on Newport Road, funded by the great Welsh coalowner and philanthropist, Sir William James Thomas. In 1845 William Edwards married Mary Elizabeth Paine, who died in 1892. In the following year, at the age of 72, he married Edith Evangeline Batchelor, one of the daughters of his old friend John Batchelor. She would outlive him by
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (Gwilym Deudraeth; 1863 - 1940), poet works were published: Chydig ar Gof a Chadw, ed. by Isaac Davies, Birkenhead, in 1926, and Yr Awen Barod, ed. by J. W. Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog, in 1943. He was one of Wales's most original and dexterous writers of englynion. He died 20 March 1940 and was buried in Allerton cemetery, Liverpool.
EDWIN family Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, apart from mentioning the second daughter Mary, who in 1703 married Robert Jones of Fonmon (see under Philip Jones, 1618? - 1674), the present notice will deal only with the direct Llanfihangel line. The eldest son, SAMUEL EDWIN, christened 12 December 1671, died at Llanfihangel 27 September 1722, married Lady Catherine Montagu, daughter of the 2nd earl of Manchester, and had three children. Of these
EL KAREY, YOUHANNAH (1843/4 - 1907), missionary Karey married Alice Mary Maud Roper (b. 1853), a schoolteacher and daughter of the formerly enslaved freedom fighter Moses Roper (1815-1892), who had escaped from North Carolina to Britain in 1835 and lived and worked in Wales for a time. It may be that Roper, who is recorded as a 'Baptist Missionary' on the marriage certificate, was acquainted with El Karey during his earlier visits to Wales and
ELDRIDGE, MILDRED ELSIE (1909 - 1991), artist Mildred Eldridge was born at 35 Dunmore Road, Wimbledon, London, on 1 August 1909, the daughter of Frederick Charles Eldridge (1874-1960), a jeweller, and his wife Mildred Mary (née Chevalier, 1871-1961). Her one brother, Frederick (1906-1980), had a career in insurance. In 1925 the family moved to 3 Bridge Street, Leatherhead, where they lived in accommodation over her father's jewellery shop
ELIAS, THOMAS (Bardd Coch; 1792 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymn-writer Born in November 1792 at Bryn-teg, Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire, the son of David Elias and Mary his wife, he was apprenticed at 10 to a tailor at Llanwrtyd. At 14 he went to Merthyr Tydfil, but returned in a few years, married, and in 1822 began preaching - he was ordained in 1831. His latter years were spent at Senny-bridge (Brecknock), where he died 14 March 1855, aged 62. A cywydd by him
ELLIS, EDWARD LEWIS (1922 - 2008), historian and biographer as a real breakthrough in the writing of an institutional history. Dr Ellis remained at Pantycelyn until September 1974, tending to rue somewhat the move towards a mixed Welsh medium hall of residence. In 1975 Ellis began research work on a biography of Lord Davies, Llandinam (1880-1944), but quickly became disillusioned with the generally poor quality of the surviving papers. Then in January 1978
ELLIS, GRIFFITH (1844 - 1913), Calvinistic Methodist minister activities of the church. In his presbytery, too, and in the affairs of his denomination, he acquired great influence, becoming moderator of the North Wales C.M. Association in 1900, and of the General Assembly in 1896; it was he who delivered the first ' Davies lecture ' in 1894 (published in 1895 under the title Y Syched am Dduw). He had a most tenacious memory and a considerable capacity for research
ELLIS, ROBERT MORTON STANLEY (1898 - 1966), minister (Presb.), and author Congregationalist, but he joined the Presbyterians in Bethania, Glanaman, and began preaching there. He was educated for the ministry in Newcastle Emlyn grammar school and in the Presbyterian colleges at Aberystwyth and Bala. In 1925 he was ordained, and the same year he married Martha Maud Davies of Brynmyrnach, Llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire. He was minister of Abermeurig and Bwlchyllan churches, Cardiganshire
ELLIS, THOMAS (c. 1819 - 1856), Orientalist Born at Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, about 1819 (as the parish register contains no reference to him, he may have been christened in the Calvinistic Methodist chapel there). He attended the school kept by Morris Davies (1796 - 1876), but was a backward pupil, and ultimately followed his father's trade of shoemaker. Later he wandered to Liverpool, and there became interested in Oriental languages
ELLIS, THOMAS EDWARD (1859 - 1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5) Students' Association of the University College of Wales, and warden (1896-9) of the Guild of Graduates of the University. He edited the first volume of the works of Morgan Llwyd, a task subsequently completed by his brother-in-law J. H. Davies. He married Annie, daughter of R. J. Davies, Cwrt-mawr, Llangeitho, who survived him, with a son, Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. He died at Cannes, France, 5 April 1899

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