Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EL KAREY, YOUHANNAH (1843/4 - 1907), missionary , Bangor, Conwy, Mostyn, Denbigh, Holywell, Llangollen, Narberth, Haverfordwest, Glynneath, Tredegar, Llanelli, Ebbw Vale, Merthyr Tydfil, and Aberdare. There are numerous contemporary newspaper articles documenting his lectures, which usually wrote about him with fascination and respect, and spoke of him as if he was well known to Welsh audiences. He spoke about his missionary work, his life in
ELFODD (d. 809), bishop most of them (see The Lives of the British Saints, iii, 431). He is said (The Lives of the British Saints) to have become bishop of Bangor in 755, but this statement rests on late and extremely dubious authority - the manuscripts of Iolo Morganwg. The chronicler Nennius, who styles himself Elfodd's pupil ('Elvodugi discipulus'), refers to him as 'episcopus sanctissimus' with no local designation; and
ELIS ap SION ap MORYS (fl. 15th century), bard He wrote towards the end of the 15th century. Only one of his cywyddau is extant - in Peniarth MS 71. In this he eulogises 'Harri, lord bishop of Bangor'; this was Henry Deane, bishop of Bangor from 1496 to 1499, and later archbishop of Canterbury.
ELLIS, DAVID (1736 - 1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts Born 31 August 1736, son of Ellis and Elizabeth David, Hafod-y-meirch, Dolgelley. He received his early education at Ystrad Meurig, and matriculated 14 November 1763. He proceeded to Jesus College, Oxford, 12 March 1764, but for some unknown reason he left on 30 June in that same year. He was ordained deacon at Bangor on 22 July 1764, and priest a year later. Ellis held curacies at Llanberis
ELLIS, JOHN (1674 - 1735), cleric and antiquary September 1710 and appointed a canon of Bangor cathedral in the same year. He surrendered the latter office on receiving the prebend of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd on 26 March 1713, and was presented to the rectorate of Llanbedr-y-cennin with the vicariate of Caerhun on 24 July 1719. He married, 13 May 1720, Catherine, daughter of Richard Humphreys, Hendregwenllian, Penrhyndeudraeth, and step-sister of bishop
ELLIS, MORGAN ALBERT (1832 - 1901), Welsh-American preacher and editor emigrated to the U.S.A. He lived for a while in Pennsylvania, in Utica, N.Y., where he was editor of Y Gwyliedydd, and in New York for a period, editing Y Drych a'r Gwyliedydd. He removed from New York to West Bangor, Pa., where he kept a school and began to preach; he was ordained in 1865. He ministered to Calvinistic Methodist churches in various places: Ebensburg, Pa., Hyde Park, Pa., Bangor, Pa
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, TECWYN (1918 - 2012), educationalist, scholar and author , 21 December 1963, Elin Valerie Jones of Mynytho, who was a music teacher at Ysgol Botwnnog at the time. Three children were born to them, a son and two daughters. He died on 17 September 2012 aged 94 and was buried in Llandderfel's new cemetery on 21 September. A Memorial Service was held at Pendref Chapel, Bangor, later on the same day.
ELWYN-EDWARDS, DILYS (1918 - 2012), composer Elwyn-Edwards taught piano in the Normal College and the University College in Bangor. She was a regular adjudicator at eisteddfodau and often appeared on radio and television. Although she composed some instrumental music her main interest was in the human voice. She was greatly interested in poetry and acknowledged her admiration for the English composer Peter Warlock, who was also renowned for his
EVANS, ALBERT OWEN (1864 - 1937), archdeacon of Bangor Born 20 February 1864, son of captain Henry Evans, Caernarvon. A scholar of S. David's College, Lampeter, he graduated B.A. in 1898. Ordained in that year, his first curacy was Connah's Quay, which he resigned in the following year on being appointed inspector of Church schools in the diocese of Bangor, a diocese of which he was to become one of the leading figures. In 1909 he was preferred to
EVANS, DANIEL (1774 - 1835), Congregational minister Isaac Price, Llanwrtyd, in 1776, but he was not ordained there. In 1779 he accepted a call to minister to the small church at Bangor, Caernarfonshire. His lot there was hard as the church was weak. He worked assiduously, nevertheless, extending his field of activities as far as the Conway valley; he founded seven churches in the neighbourhood of Bangor. In 1808 he moved to Mynydd-bach, Swansea, where
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer the Cymmrodorion Society, and elected to a three-year Fellowship of £100 a year at Jesus College, Oxford. A grant from the Civil List was secured for him the same year to enable him to complete his task. In 1901 the University of Wales conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.Litt. Ecclesiastical honours fell to his lot; he was made an honorary canon of Bangor in 1888, prebendary of Llanfair in

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