Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School eighty-ninth birthday he recalled how long and hard had been the journey from home to London during the early decades of the nineteenth century. 'Some seventy years ago, when I set out for London, the journey took me two days; I can do it now almost in as many hours! I had to go to Newport on foot, then by packet to Bristol; from there to London by coach'. A gifted student, Edwards became a Member of
EL KAREY, YOUHANNAH (1843/4 - 1907), missionary March 1907. His funeral, reportedly attended by many Muslims, Christians and foreigners, was held at Nablus Evangelical church, in whose cemetery he is buried. It is not known exactly what happened to his wife and children after his death, but presumably Alice remained in Palestine and continued her missionary work, as on his death she wrote: 'I am now left alone with five young children to bring up
ELDRIDGE, MILDRED ELSIE (1909 - 1991), artist Violet Martin), under the guidance of her former tutor Cyril Mahoney, in the painting of a series of murals at Brockley County School (now Prendergast School), which still exist; Eldridge's contribution, The Birdcatcher and the Skylark is an early expression of her concern with human persecution of the animal world. From 1934 Eldridge was also exhibiting at the Royal Academy and continued to do so into
ELLICE, ROBERT, Royalist soldier antiquary, whose genealogical collections were extensively used by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, the estate of Gwasnewydd (now Croes-newydd) in the township of Broughton and parish of Wrexham. His family lived there till towards the close of the 17th century, but in 1646 he is described as 'of Ruabon.' He served under Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years War, and on his return in the Civil War at home on 15
ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650 - 1731), Welsh-American Quaker and his family over to make a settlement. On 16 October 1686, together with his son Rowland and about 100 of his neighbours, he sailed from Milford Haven to Pennsylvania. He arrived in Philadelphia in April 1687, and settled at Bryn Mawr, now Lower Merion. After making arrangements to make this place his new home he returned to Wales in 1688 and, later, returned again to Pennsylvania with the
ELLIS, THOMAS (1711/12 - 1792), cleric he was preferred to the 'prize' living of his college, Nutfield in Surrey. He could now afford to resign his Fellowship (his stipend at Holyhead had been only £50) and married (1762); he had two children. He died at Nutfield 23 February 1792, aged 80.
EMERY, FRANK VIVIAN (1930 - 1987), historical geographer skill and sensitivity to see it, in Gower's now placid landscape. This aspect of Gower, like its scenic beauty, inspired in Emery a life-long intellectual curiosity. The subject of his prize-winning undergraduate dissertation was 'The English Settlement in Peninsular Gower', and his paper of 1957 was concerned with contacts between South Wales and the south-west peninsula of England in the nineteenth
EMRYS-ROBERTS, EDWARD (1878 - 1924), first professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Welsh National School of Medicine material, an arrangement which continued up to his death. His own developing research interest was in the pathology of anthracosis among coal miners. Indeed, when his own condition was finally assessed as terminal he bore the news with equanimity, only observing 'now I cannot work out that idea on anthracosis'. Outside medicine Emrys-Roberts's main recreational interests were fishing and particularly
ETHÉ, CARL HERMANN (1844 - 1917), scholar only on the centenary of the persecution of Ethé that Aberystwyth town and the Christian Morlan Centre on the site of the old Tabernacle chapel took steps to publicly remember the events. A commemorative plaque - the first to draw attention to mob violence during the Great War and the only trilingual memorial plaque in the British Isles - now has a prominent place in front of the Morlan Centre
EVAN(S), EDWARD (1716 - 1798), Presbyterian minister and poet -y-glo, and when a separate church was incorporated near Aberdare (now the ' Old Meeting') he became one of its leading members and a preacher. His theological views moved leftward to Arminianism, and later to Arianism. On 1 July 1772 he was ordained pastor of the ' Old Meeting,' and held office till 1796. He died 1 June 1798 and was buried in S. John's churchyard, Aberdare. He was twice married
EVANS, ALBERT OWEN (1864 - 1937), archdeacon of Bangor ,' ' Three Old Foundations,' ' Bishop Nicholas Robinson,' ' Thomas a Kempis and Wales,' and ' Some Welsh Agricultural Writers.' A large number of his manuscripts are now in N.L.W.
EVANS, DAVID (1879 - 1965), public servant and hymn-writer attributed to 'Aeronian'. When the hymn appeared in the Independents' collection of hymns, Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol Newydd in 1921 the authorship of the words was erroneously attributed to the now dead Rev Thomas Levi (died 1916), the editor of Trysorfa y Plant at the time of the composition's original publication. It was only in 1940 that the true identity of 'Aeronian' was revealed by Rev. J. Seymour

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