Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIOT, Sir GEORGE (1815 - 1893), BARONET, owner and developer of coalmines 23 December 1893, and was buried in Houghton churchyard. They had two sons and four daughters. Sir George Elliot was succeeded to the baronetcy by his second son, Sir George William Elliot, in 1893 (his first son had died in 1874) and he too was a M.P. (C), 1874-95, when he died. The title then passed to his son, Sir George Elliot, the third baronet, and in 1904 to the latter's brother, Sir Charles
ELLIS, EDWARD LEWIS (1922 - 2008), historian and biographer Ellis was born at Aberystwyth on 21 March 1922, one of the three children and only son of Griffith Thomas Ellis and his wife Elizabeth (née Lloyd), Cambrian Street, and the nephew of a well known local politician, Alderman R. J. Ellis (1888-1976). He was educated at Alexandra Road Primary School and Ardwyn Grammar School where he became head boy in 1940-41. He entered the University College of
ELLIS, JOHN (1760 - 1839), saddler and musician Born at Ty'n-y-gwernannau, parish of Llangwm, Denbighshire. His christening is recorded as follows: 'Baptized November 8. 1760, John, twin brother of Jane; Parents names, William and Jane Ellis, Ty'n-y-gwernannau; David Lloyd, Rector.' He showed an interest in music when quite young and learnt to play the flute. He was apprenticed to a saddler and after he had served his apprenticeship and had
ELLIS, JOHN GRIFFITH (1723/4 - 1805), Methodist exhorter preached at the first Association in Caernarvonshire, held at Clynnog, before 1769. He fell away later for many years owing to drink, but overcame that weakness and is found preaching again at Caergeiliog in 1788 and 1796, and in Liverpool in 1799, and in 1800, with Thomas Charles, Thomas Jones, Denbigh, and Richard Lloyd, Beaumaris. John Elias, in his first society-meeting in 1793 at Hendre Howel
ELLIS, THOMAS (1625 - 1673), cleric and antiquary reasons for not printing his revised edition of David Powel's Historic; and posterity (represented by the late Sir John Edward Lloyd) has dealt another blow at this reputation by declaring that the Memoirs of Owen Glendower, usually attributed to Ellis, were originally written by Robert Vaughan, and that Ellis was a mere copyist or reviser.
ELLIS, THOMAS PETER (1873 - 1936), judge (I.C.S.) and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law Custom; he also edited Rattigan's Punjab Customary Law (8th ed.). His chief publications dealing with Wales are: Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages, 1926; The Mabinogion - a New Translation (with John Lloyd), 1929; The Story of Two Parishes (Dolgelley and Llanelltyd), 1928; The First Extent of Bromfield and Yale; The Tragedy of Cymmer; The Catholic Church in Wales under the Roman Empire
ELSTAN (or ELYSTAN) GLODRYDD, founder of the fifth of the 'royal tribes' of Wales Although scarcely anything is known about him, his name may serve as the heading of a concise account (compiled entirely from Lloyd, A History of Wales) of the later lords of 'Rhwng Gŵy a Hafren' (between Wye and Severn) - the cantreds of Maelienydd and Elfael; pedigree in Lloyd, A History of Wales, 770. Elstan (A History of Wales, 406) had a son, Cadwgan, who had three sons. One of these
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog Lewis Anwyl, vicar of Abergele, author and translator, and that Ifan Griffith's brother, Owen Griffith (died 1728), was rector of Llanfrothen.) The heir of Ifan Griffith was ROBERT GRIFFITH (1717 - 1750), his son by his first wife, Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas Meyrick, Berthlwyd, Ffestiniog. Robert Griffith, who was sheriff of Merioneth, 1742, married Ann, daughter of Thomas Lloyd Anwyl
EVANS, BERIAH GWYNFE (1848 - 1927), journalist and dramatist Wales Weekly News. In 1892 he went to Caernarvon, as managing editor of the Welsh National Press Co., publishers of Y Genedl Gymreig, The North Wales Observer, and other newspapers, a company in which David Lloyd George was then interested. Here he soon made his mark as a trenchant political journalist, but he resigned his post in 1895, when he was appointed secretary to the 'Cymru Fydd' movement
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor that term. He began classes that very day. Bernard Shaw, Charles Laughton and Robert Donat were amongst the lecturers at RADA at that time. Another former Llanelli Intermediate School pupil, Professor Lloyd James who tutored BBC announcers, helped him with his King's English. Evans subsequently won the Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson Prize for spoken English among other prizes and the RADA scholarship
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar Studies at Liverpool University. Simon Evans remained in Swansea until 1956 when he was appointed to succeed J. Lloyd-Jones as Professor of Welsh at University College Dublin, but in 1962 he was back in Wales as lecturer in Welsh at St David's University College, Lampeter. Melville Richards was appointed to the chair of Welsh at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1965 and Simon Evans
EVANS, DAVID (fl. 1750), poet yn Flanders yn amser George yr Ail, ar Galon Drom.'

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