Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd Gruffydd of Penrhyn. Editorial note 2020: Ednyfed Fychan had two wives: 1) Tangwystl daughter of Llywarch ap Brân, (the mother of six children, including Tudur and Hywel); 2) Gwenllian daughter of the Lord Rhys of Deheubarth (died 1236), the mother of Goronwy, Gruffydd, Gwladus and Gwenllian. P. C. Bartrum, Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1400 (1974), 'Marchudd 4'
EDWARDES, DAVID (c. 1630 - 1690), landowner and deputy-herald Of Rhyd-y-gors, Carmarthenshire, only son of David Edwardes, c. 1630. He married Elizabeth, daughter of David Morgan of Coed-llwyd, Pembrokeshire. An able genealogist and armorist, he was on 1 August 1684 appointed by Clarenceux king-of-arms to be deputy-herald for Cardiganshire, Brecknock, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, and Glamorganshire. He travelled widely in Wales and England, consulted
EDWARDS, ALFRED GEORGE (1848 - 1937), first archbishop of Wales ) warden of Llandovery College, was ordained deacon in 1874 and priest in 1875; in 1885 he was preferred to the vicarage of S. Peter, Carmarthen, becoming at the same time private secretary to bishop William Basil Jones of S. Davids. In February 1889 he was nominated bishop of St Asaph, and was consecrated in Westminster Abbey on 25 March. On 1 June 1920 he was enthroned first archbishop of Wales at St
EDWARDS, CHARLES (1628 - after 1691), Puritan man of letters Ddi-ffuant, 1677, translations of religious works, together with a 'primer,' Llyfr Plygain gydag Almanac, 1682. Some time after 1686 he returned to the vicinity of Oswestry, where he had served as a preacher in 1672 after Nonconformists had been permitted to meet in dwelling houses that had been licensed; it may be surmised that he served again there as minister c. 1690-1. But he could not remain
EDWARDS, DAVID MIALL (1873 - 1941), theologian and writer . He died 29 January 1941 and was buried at Brecon 1 February
EDWARDS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Padarn; 1812 - 1893), cleric, poet and antiquary Born at Llanberis 1 September 1812, son of William Edwards (Gwilym Padarn, 1786 - 1857). Having had only an elementary education, he was taught the classical languages by Peter Bailey Williams, rector of Llan-rug. He graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1843, and took his M.A. degree in 1846. Upon graduation he was ordained and appointed curate of Llangollen. Thence he moved in 1846 to be
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN GORONWY (1891 - 1976), historian himself anew to research. The outcome was his first book, Flintshire Plea Rolls, 1283-5, published in 1922 by the Flintshire Historical Society with which he remained closely associated for the rest of his life, even serving as its editor from 1922 to 1929 and again, when a busy man, from 1951 to 1960. He spent almost three decades at Jesus College, probably the happiest period in his life. On 1
EDWARDS, MORGAN (1722 - 1795), Baptist minister and historian was buried at Philadelphia. Morgan Edwards, a conspicuously able and scholarly minister, did much for education: (1) at Philadelphia, of whose college he was M.A. and Fellow; (2) in the college (now Brown University) at Providence, Rhode Island (of which he was M.A. and Fellow), the charter of which he helped to secure and for which he collected thousands of pounds in England and elsewhere. He also
EDWARDS, NESS (1897 - 1968), trade unionist and Member of Parliament lively interest in Welsh matters and he argued keenly in favour of reforming the way these were discussed in Parliament. He was proud of the industrial and socialist traditions of south Wales and for years his books (The industrial revolution in south Wales (1924), The history of the south Wales miners (1926) and The history of the South Wales Miners' Federation (vol. 1, 1938; the proofs of the second
EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837 - 1900), Calvinistic Methodist minister, exegete and preacher wrote a standard commentary on 1 Corinthians, 1885, on ' Hebrews ' (in the Expositor's Bible), 1888, and a Welsh version of the latter, 1900. His Davies lecture, 1895, on ' The God-man,' caused some uneasiness among the theologians of his denomination. He collected scarce Welsh books and different impressions of the Greek New Testament, which were left to the Bala College library. In 1872 he was
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
ELLIS, GRIFFITH (1844 - 1913), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 24 September 1844 at Corris, Meironnydd. Affected by the revival of 1859, he began preaching in 1863, entered Bala College in 1865, and at the end of his course served as assistant-tutor there, 1870-1. He then entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1876 (M.A. 1879) with a third class in Lit. Hum.; the master (Jowett) showed him much kindness (see Abbott and Campbell's Life of

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