Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ALLTUD EIFION - see JONES, ROBERT ISAAC
DAVIES, ELLIS WILLIAM (1871 - 1939), solicitor and politician a London Law Society prize. He established a solicitor's practice at Caernarfon, and lived there for rest of his life. In 1904 he was elected a member of Caernarfon County Council, later being made an alderman. He acted as solicitor for the North Wales Quarrymen's Union, and was director of several business companies. In June 1906 he was elected M.P. (Lib.) for the Eifion division of
DAVIES, MARY (Mair Eifion; 1846 - 1882), poet
DAVIES, OWEN (1840 - 1929), Baptist minister Born at Cae Plan, a farm near Pwllheli, 8 October 1840?. His father, Owen Davies, was cousin to David Owen Dewi Wyn o Eifion, (1784 - 1841). Educated at Llanystumdwy and Yokehouse, Pwllheli, he was afterwards apprenticed to a draper in Pwllheli, and at the age of 18 became an assistant in a draper's shop in S. Asaph. While at S. Asaph he began to preach. In 1862 he entered the Baptist College at
DEWI WYN o EIFION - see OWEN, DAVID
EIFION WYN - see WILLIAMS, ELISEUS
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist Born in Aber-erch, Caernarfonshire, his mother being the daughter of John Roberts (Siôn Lleyn, 1749 - 1817; the artist was also related to John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion, 1786 - 1859. He was apprenticed to a carpenter but, as he displayed some talent for painting, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau, Meironnydd, brought him to the notice of Sir Martin Archer Shee, the painter, who gave him
EVANS, ROBERT (Cybi; 1871 - 1956), poet, writer, and bookseller , both scarce and valuable, old and new, and had a stall in the Market Hall at Pwllheli every Wednesday. He wrote a very considerable amount of poetry, particularly awdlau, marwnadau and commemorative englynion. There is not a graveyard in Eifionydd that does not contain an example of his work. He published several books of his own poetry including Odlau Eifion (1908), Awdl 'Bwlch Aberglaslyn' (1910
HUGHES, DAVID ROWLAND (Myfyr Eifion; 1874 - 1953), secretary of the National Eisteddfod
HUGHES, EDWARD (Y Dryw; 1772 - 1850), eisteddfodic poet Wyn o Eifion). Hughes was elected official 'bard' to the Society of Gwyneddigion, 1820-1, and won the prize offered by the Society of Cymmrodorion, 1822, for his cywydd ' Hu Gadarn.' In the Denbigh eisteddfod of 1828 he was again successful with his ' Ymdrech Buddug yn erbyn y Rhufeiniaid ' and also with his awdl ' Amaethyddiaeth ' - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), John Blackwell (Alun), and
HUGHES, WILLIAM ROBERT (1798? - 1879), healer of cancer and cancerous warts Born at Tanyrallt, in the parish of Abererch, Caernarfonshire, of a family reputed to have an exceptional ability to cure cancerous warts, etc. After marriage he moved to live at Mur Crysto, Llangybi, in 1821. He was a friend of David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'), Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), and Robert Williams ('Robert ap Gwilym Ddu'). So great was his power that he became known as ' Dewin y
JONES, EVAN (Gwrwst ab Bleddyn Flaidd, Gwrwst; 1793 - 1855), Baptist minister and littérateur Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu) and David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), and was an active member of the Cymreigyddion Society at Dolgelley. He published Gwentwyson: sef Ymdrechfa Y Beirdd; neu Awdlau Galarnadol am … Y Parch. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), 1849, and the translation of Traethawd ar Faddeuant Pechod, 1809, by Abraham Booth is attributed to him, although he was then but a youth (see under Evan

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