Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, SYDENHAM TEAST (1768 - 1819), botanical and animal draughtsman Christened at Usk, 5 August 1768, son of Lloyd Pittel Edwards, a schoolmaster and organist at Usk and Abergavenny, and Mary (Reece?) his wife (of Llantilio Crossenny). His drawing ability brought him to the notice of William Curtis, botanist and entomologist, who sent him to London to study drawing. From 1798 to 1814 Edwards contributed nearly all the drawings for The Botanical Magazine and
EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837 - 1900), Calvinistic Methodist minister, exegete and preacher matriculating in 1862 at S. Alban Hall, Oxford ] became a scholar of Lincoln College (1862-6), where he graduated with first class honours in Lit. Hum. [ M.A. 1872. At Oxford he was deeply influenced by Pattison and Jowett; he kept in contact with both as long as they lived.] He received the degree of D.D. honoris causa from the Universities of Edinburgh [ 1887 ] and Wales (1898). He married Mary Roberts in
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School foundation stone was laid for a new state-of-the-art Institute of Physiology on Newport Road, funded by the great Welsh coalowner and philanthropist, Sir William James Thomas. In 1845 William Edwards married Mary Elizabeth Paine, who died in 1892. In the following year, at the age of 72, he married Edith Evangeline Batchelor, one of the daughters of his old friend John Batchelor. She would outlive him by
EDWIN family Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, apart from mentioning the second daughter Mary, who in 1703 married Robert Jones of Fonmon (see under Philip Jones, 1618? - 1674), the present notice will deal only with the direct Llanfihangel line. The eldest son, SAMUEL EDWIN, christened 12 December 1671, died at Llanfihangel 27 September 1722, married Lady Catherine Montagu, daughter of the 2nd earl of Manchester, and had three children. Of these
EL KAREY, YOUHANNAH (1843/4 - 1907), missionary Karey married Alice Mary Maud Roper (b. 1853), a schoolteacher and daughter of the formerly enslaved freedom fighter Moses Roper (1815-1892), who had escaped from North Carolina to Britain in 1835 and lived and worked in Wales for a time. It may be that Roper, who is recorded as a 'Baptist Missionary' on the marriage certificate, was acquainted with El Karey during his earlier visits to Wales and
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
ELIAS, THOMAS (Bardd Coch; 1792 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymn-writer Born in November 1792 at Bryn-teg, Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire, the son of David Elias and Mary his wife, he was apprenticed at 10 to a tailor at Llanwrtyd. At 14 he went to Merthyr Tydfil, but returned in a few years, married, and in 1822 began preaching - he was ordained in 1831. His latter years were spent at Senny-bridge (Brecknock), where he died 14 March 1855, aged 62. A cywydd by him
ELLIS SION SIAMS (fl. 17th century), harpist He lived in Llanfachreth, Meironnydd. He is said to have been harpist to queen Anne.
ELLIS, EDWARD LEWIS (1922 - 2008), historian and biographer 1947 Ellis had been awarded an university studentship to pursue postgraduate research work under the supervision of S. H. F. (Fergus) Johnston on the Whig Party during the reign of Queen Anne, for which he was to be awarded the MA (Wales) degree in 1950. In 1949 he had taken up the position of tutor in history at Ruskin College, Oxford, where he was to remain for the next thirteen years and attain
ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author . Asaph in November 1936, and the following year he was licensed as a lay reader. He wrote regularly for Y Llan, and served as secretary to the Llan and Welsh Church Company for a short period. He contributed articles to Yr Haul (mainly as ' Timothy Stone'), Y Llenor, Barn, etc., and wrote many articles for DWB. He married, 20 April 1949, Mary Gwendoline Headley, and they had one son and one daughter
ELLIS, THOMAS PETER (1873 - 1936), judge (I.C.S.) and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law Born at Wrexham, 4 June 1873, son of Peter Ellis and Mary (Lewis). His father died when he was very young, and he spent his early youth with his mother and her family on a farm near Glyndyfrdwy. He was educated at Oswestry high school and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he became an admirer of (Sir) Owen M. Edwards. He went to India and soon earned distinction: he came to be considered one of
ELLIS-GRIFFITH, Sir ELLIS (JONES) (1860 - 1926), barrister and M.P. 1924, and his parliamentary career came to an end. He died very suddenly, 30 November 1926, while attending the assizes at Swansea, and was buried in Llanidan churchyard, Brynsiencyn. He married in 1892 Mary, daughter of Robert Owen, Ty Draw, Mold. There were two sons and one daughter of this marriage, of whom only one son, Ellis Arundel, who succeeded to the title, survived him. Sir Arundel died in

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