Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELIAS, JOHN ROOSE (Y Thesbiad; 1819 - 1881), poet and prose writer Born 9 December 1819 at Bryn-du, Anglesey, son of David Elias, Pentraeth, and Elizabeth Roose, and nephew of John Elias. He received his early education at a school kept by Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn, 1806 - 1889) at Pen-y-garnedd; and afterwards R. Hughes of Gaerwen was his tutor. Later he entered Tattenhall school. His parents had intended that he should assist them in the family business at
ELIAS, WILLIAM (1708 - 1787), poet agent to the Wynn family of Glynllifon. He married Ann Williams, 19 January 1730, as is shown by a letter in Wynnstay MS 7, and ten of his children are mentioned in the pedigrees, among them the ' William Elias junior ' whose name is found in Wynnstay MS. 7 and also in the Diddanwch teuluaidd. He moved to Plas-y-glyn, Llanfwrog, Anglesey, in 1774, died there in 1787, and was buried at Llanfwrog 2 July
ELIDIR SAIS (fl. end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th.), a poet He composed elegies upon Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1195), and Ednyfed Fychan (died 1246). He was not English, for we learn from Gwilym Ddu (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 277b) that he sprang 'from the wise men of Anglesey in the bosom of the sea.' Gwilym Ddu ranks his work with that of other leading poets as a 'correct canon' or a model of poetry. Most of his poems are religious, and are
ELLIS, DAVID (1736 - 1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts , Caernarfonshire, Llangeinwen, Anglesey, Derwen, Denbighshire, and Amlwch, Anglesey, before he was appointed vicar of Llanberis, 9 October 1788. He became vicar of Criccieth on 19 July 1789, and there he remained until his death. He was buried at Criccieth, 11 May 1795. A versatile poet, Ellis wrote elegies on Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) and on his old schoolmaster Edward Richard. Probably his greatest
ELLIS, LEWIS (1761 - 1823), musician Born in the parish of Llansadwrn, Anglesey. He was precentor at Beaumaris church and he and his sons played various instruments in the church service. About the year 1787 he constructed an organ at his house at Pentŵr, Henblas, this being the first organ to be built in the isle of Anglesey. In 1796 he moved it from his house and reconstructed it inside Beaumaris church. The following entry
ELLIS, RICHARD (1784 - 1824), excise officer and musician Born 24 January 1784, son of Lewis Ellis, Llansadwrn, Anglesey, organist at Beaumaris parish church. In 1800 he succeeded his father as organist of Beaumaris church, a post which he held until he died. In 1821 he finished collecting material for a book containing hymn-tunes and psalms for use in churches, a work for the publication of which the bishop of Bangor gave his consent; what became of
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-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
EMRYS-ROBERTS, EDWARD (1878 - 1924), first professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Welsh National School of Medicine , Anglesey, whom he had married in 1910, and a family of six young children. Three days later, following a funeral service at All Saints church, he was buried in Penarth Cemetery.
EVAN(S), LEWIS (1720 - 1792), one of the earliest Calvinistic Methodist exhorters in North Wales 1921). He itinerated zealously, penetrating even into Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, and suffered dire persecution. In the Methodist disruption of 1750 he was at first on Harris's side, and frequented his 'associations'; but later he joined Rowland's connexion. He died (according to E. Griffith, Methodistiaeth Trefaldwyn Isaf, 39) 5 September 1792.
EVANS, ALBERT OWEN (1864 - 1937), archdeacon of Bangor the benefice of Llanfaethlu -cum- Llanfwrog (Anglesey). He was appointed rural dean of Talybolion in 1918, but relinquished this position in 1921 on being made archdeacon of Bangor. Living at a time when the disestablishment controversy raged, he took a foremost part in presenting the case for the Church and in 1906 collected diocesan statistics for presentation to the Welsh Church Commission. An
EVANS, CHRISTMAS (1766 - 1838), Baptist minister Robert Roberts (1762 - 1802) of Clynnog, the most powerful preacher in Wales, he had a new vision of the art of preaching, and discovered in the drama the line most suited to his own genius. On Christmas Day 1791 he rode from Llŷn to Anglesey, with Catherine riding pillion, to take charge of the Anglesey Baptists at their headquarters at Ebenezer, Llangefni, and to make his home in the chapel-house

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