Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLICE, ROBERT, Royalist soldier January 1643 (on royal orders) he seized Chirk castle, the seat of the Roundhead Sir Thomas Myddelton and commanded 600 Welsh Royalist infantry at Middlewich, Cheshire (March 1643), where they were defeated and Ellice captured. Released in September 1643, he was given command for the king over Denbighshire and Flintshire with 1,200 men, at the head of whom he took part in operations round Wem (March
ELLIOT, Sir GEORGE (1815 - 1893), BARONET, owner and developer of coalmines Born at Penshaw, Gateshead, co. Durham, in March or June 1815, one of the six children of Ralph Elliot, under-manager of Whitefield colliery and his wife Elizabeth (née Braithwaite). At the age of 9 he began working 14 hours a day underground. When he was 19 years old he went as a promising trainee to the office of Thomas Sopwith, underground inspector at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, returning to
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, 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, ELLIS ab (fl. 1685-1726), cleric and poet register was made on 14 May 1693 and his last on 28 March 1725. Llandudno also was under his charge. He wrote poetry in the strict and the free metres. ' Cywydd i'r Arian ' was published in Dyfyrwch ir Cymru neu Ddewisol Ganiadau (Dublin, n.d.), and in Y Gwladgarwr, iv, 18; ' Hanes y Byd ' in Thomas Jones's Almanac, 1685; and 'Carol Plygain,' 1710, 'Hanes Llundain,' and 'Gofal Cybydd am ei Ferch,' in
ELLIS, JOHN (1674 - 1735), cleric and antiquary Second son of Thomas Ellis of Llandegwning, Llŷn, and his wife Jane Marsh, widow of Herbert Griffith, Brynodol. He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, 31 March 1690, at the age of 16, graduated B.A. in 1693, M.A. (and a Fellow) in 1696, S.T.B. in 1703, and S.T.P. c. 1720, was ordained a deacon 7 September 1707, and a priest 4 July 1708, and was presented to the rectorate of Llandwrog 30
ELLIS, LEWIS (1761 - 1823), musician appears in the corporation of Beaumaris records: 'Year ended Michaelmas 1796. Voucher, Lewis Ellis for what ordered to be given him out of the Corporation Fund, towards satisfying him for an organ built by him for the use of Beaumaris church, £10.10.0.' He was organist of the church until 1800. He died 25 March 1823 and was buried in Beaumaris churchyard.
ELLIS, THOMAS (1711/12 - 1792), cleric in March 1748 (Wesley's Journal, 26-7 March), Ellis pressed him to write something 'to advise the Methodists not to leave the Church' - Wesley 'sat down immediately' and wrote A Word to a Methodist, which Ellis translated and printed (Dublin, 1748) under the title Gair i'r Methodist. Ellis was also a promoter of the S.P.C.K. 1746 edition of the Welsh Bible, and seems to have suggested the
EVAN(S), EDWARD (1716 - 1798), Presbyterian minister and poet Born March 1716 (possibly 1717) at Llwydcoed, Aberdare, son of Ifan ap Shôn ap Rhys, a weaver and smallholder. After a few years as a weaver he was apprenticed to carpentry under Lewis Hopkin, who also instructed him in the practice of the strict metres in poetry. In 1749 he took the farm of Ton Coch, above Dyffryn House, Mountain Ash. He had joined (c. 1748) the Nonconformist congregation at Cwm
EVANS, ALCWYN CARYNI (1828 - 1902), antiquary nephew of Thomas Charles of Bala. They had two daughters, Marian Sophia (born 1872) and Eleonora Imogen (born 1874). Alcwyn Evans died on the 11th March 1902 at his home in Carmarthen. His collections were dispersed after his death. His “beautifully written and carefully indexed volumes of manuscripts” passed into the library of Sir Evan Davies Jones of Pentower, Fishguard and in July 1939 were
EVANS, BENJAMIN (1740 - 1821), Independent minister caused considerable controversy between him and William Richards of Lynn (1749 - 1818). In 1797 he translated Crefydd Gymdeithasol (by Mathias Maurice). He also published pamphlets containing sermons and hymns, and a catechism for the Sunday schools, and he was the most prominent pioneer of that movement in the district. He died 2 March 1821 and was buried under the pulpit at Hawen.
EVANS, CARADOC (1878 - 1945), author best of his time. In 1934-35 he returned to Wales and helped run a theatre at Aberystwyth. In 1939 he settled at Aberystwyth and then at New Cross. He was twice married, (1), to Rose Ware, 1907 (divorced 8 March 1933), and (2), to Marguerite Helene ('Oliver Sandys'), daughter of Col. H.P. Jervis, in May 1933. He had no children. He died 11 January 1945 in Aberystwyth hospital.

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