Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWIN family Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, ., 1738, M.P. for Westminster 1742-7, and for Glamorgan from 1747 till his death, 29 June 1756. His wife, Lady Charlotte Edwin (daughter of the 4th duke of Hamilton; she died 5 February 1774), is a figure in early Methodist history, and finds a place in the biographies of Lady Huntingdon and of George Whitefield, and the journals of John Wesley. It was she who presented David Jones (1736 - 1810) to the
EINION ap MADOG ap RHAHAWD (fl. c. 1237), one of the poets of the Age of the Princes Only one poem by him is extant, an eulogistic awdl to prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. This is found in Hendreg. MS. and in transcripts of it (B.M. MS. 14,869, Llanstephan MS 31, Peniarth MS 119). It was published in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, i, 391; Anwyl, The Poetry of the Gogynfeirdd, 154; Llawysgrif Hendregadredd, 54-5; and Stephens, The Literature of the Kymry, 371-2.
ELLIS, HUW (1714 - 1774), harpist Born at Trawsfynydd, Meironnydd. A skilled player of the 'telyn deir-res' (triple harp), he was considered the best Welsh folk-song player of his time. He met his death by drowning in the river Dysynni, near Towyn, Meironnydd, 5 August 1774, and was buried in Towyn churchyard.
ELLIS, THOMAS (1711/12 - 1792), cleric Born at Meliden, Flintshire, he was the son of Edward Ellis. He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, 5 February 1727/8, 'aged 16,' graduated in 1731, took his B.D. in 1741 (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses), and was Fellow of Jesus 1731-61 (Hardy, Jesus College), and eventually Senior Fellow. In 1737 he was preferred to the college curacy (or ' lectureship') of Holyhead. He was a most diligent
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
EMERY, FRANK VIVIAN (1930 - 1987), historical geographer scenes in English Gower', Journal of the Gower Soc. 3: 18-20 1951 'The Penclawdd canal', Journal of the Gower Soc. 4: 45-9 1952 'Dialect relationships', Journal of the Gower Soc. 5: 11-12 1953 'Leghorn to Penrice', Journal of the Gower Soc. 6: 16-18 1954a 'The value of Nicholaston Wood', Journal of the Gower Soc. 7: 6-8 1954b 'Gower in Spain', Journal of the Gower Soc. 7: 38-9 1954c 'Loughor Tythe
ERBERY, WILLIAM (1604 - 1654), Puritan and Independent on the 'Agreement of the People' in January 1648 (Clarke Papers, ii, 171-5). He worked in Glamorgan under the terms of the Act for Propagation, and was paid £225 for his pains (Walker MS. c. 13, f. 17), but towards the end of 1651 his scruples about tithes led him to refuse further payment (The Sword Doubled, 3). In doctrine he leaned towards mysticism, being a disciple of Jacob Boehme. As a result
ETHÉ, CARL HERMANN (1844 - 1917), scholar (written in 1944-5, but not published until 1968), contain an offensive description of Ethé's accent as 'indescribably funny' and a phonetic reproduction of the way he spoke English which suggests the xenophobia of a man at the heart of Welsh intellectual life. Nevertheless, Jenkins expresses the highest respect for Ethé as a scholar and contempt for the hypocritical bigotry of those who condemned his
EVAN(S), JAMES (Carneinion; 1814 - 1842) Trefgarn, Congregationalist lay preacher, and author made from Trefgarn to Liverpool in 1838. He died 5 June 1842 and was buried at Brawdy two days later.
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, ANNIE FLORENCE (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary Florrie Evans was born on 15 December 1884 in New Quay, Cardiganshire, the second of the four children of David Owen Evans (1853-1918), a mariner, and his wife Margaret (née Jones, 1853-1929), who were living at 5 Marine Terrace in 1881, and at 4 Lewis Terrace ten years later. By 1901, following her father's promotion to captain, the family moved to 12 Marine Terrace which remained their home
EVANS, ARISE (fl. 1607-1660), prognosticator and William Aspinwall. During the stirring events of 1653-5 he managed to interview the Protector, but the pamphlets he wrote referred confidently to a Restoration; in 1653, indeed, he gave a forecast of the course of events in England following Cromwell's death that came remarkably near the truth. His Narrations, Voices from Heaven, and Echoes of those Voices, contain weird and impossible

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