Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIS, RICHARD (1865 - 1928), librarian and bibliographer . His work on Lhuyd made him a specialist in the history of many other Welshmen who were connected with Oxford. He published (a) Facsimiles of Letters of Oxford Welshmen (Henry Vaughan the Silurist, Sir Leoline Jenkins, Edward Lhuyd, Ellis Wynne, Edward Samuel, Moses Williams), and (b) An Elizabethan Broadside in the Welsh Language, being a Brief granted in 1591 to Sion Salusburi of Gwyddelwern
ELLIS, ROBERT (Cynddelw; 1812 - 1875), Baptist minister, preacher, poet, antiquary, and commentator reprint of Barddoniaeth Dafydd ap Gwilym. He also compiled Blodau Arfon (the work of Dewi Wyn) and edited Geiriadur y Bardd. He delighted in lexicography and produced Geiriadur Cymreig Cymraeg, 1868. His poetry - Barddoniaeth Cynddelw - was published under the editorship of Ioan Arfon by H. Humphreys, Caernarvon, in 1877. He was interested in every kind of antiquarian lore, published Manion Hynafiaethol
ELLIS, ROBERT (Llyfnwy; 1805 - 1872), parish clerk (1829-72) and poet Christened at Llanllyfni church, 20 October 1805 son of Ellis and Ann Dafydd, Penbryn Bach, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire. He married Catherine Williams of Llandwrog in 1830 and they had seven children. As a poet, he was known by the name Llyfnwy. In 1852 he published Lloffion Awen Llyfnwy, a collection of his verse, but disarmed criticism by admitting in his introduction that he did not aspire to
EUTUN, OWAIN (fl. c. 15th century), bard A cywydd by him to Siôn ap Roesser of Llanfrynach is preserved in Peniarth MS 55 (154), and there are other poems in Cwrtmawr MS 23B (153) and Cardiff MS. 7 (368-9).
EVAN, EVAN DAFYDD (fl. 1771-9), early Methodist exhorter
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog being John Davies (Siôn Dafydd Las), Huw Morys, Evan Williams, John Prichard Prys, and Ellis Rowland, Harlech. The full pedigree table of the Evans and Griffith families contains the names of several clergymen. In this connection note that Mary Anwyl (above), after her husband Evan Griffith died, became the wife of John Griffith, rector of Ffestiniog, and that John Griffith, after her death, married
EVANS, BERIAH GWYNFE (1848 - 1927), journalist and dramatist succeeded him as gorsedd recorder. Amongst the books of which he was the author are Dafydd Dafis, 1898; Diwygwyr Cymru, 1900; The Life Romance of Lloyd George (n.d.); a Welsh version of the same book, Rhamant Bywyd Lloyd George, 1916, published in Utica U.S.A.; and Owain Glyndŵr, 1911. The last-named, a recast version of the Llanberis play of 1879, was acted in Caernarvon in the course of the celebrations
EVANS, CARADOC (1878 - 1945), author almost everything he wrote thereafter. His work includes five collections of short stories, My People, 1915, Capel Sion, 1916, My Neighbours, 1919, Pilgrims in a Foreign Land, 1942, The Earth Gives All and Takes All, 1946; five novels, of which the best is Nothing to Pay, 1930; a play, Taffy, 1923; and a posthumously published Journal. He also devilled for other writers. His best stories rank with the
EVANS, DAFYDD - see EVANS, DAVID
EVANS, DAFYDD (1842 - 1893), schoolmaster - see EVANS, DAVID
EVANS, DANIEL (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792 - 1846), cleric and poet , and some English and Latin verse. Daniel Ddu was the poet of the eisteddfod and of the ' Cambrian Societies.' In the Dyfed provincial eisteddfod, 1823, he won the prize for his ' Awdl ar Sefydliad Coleg Dewi Sant ' and the silver medal for his ' Awdl ar Fuddugoliaethau diweddar y Groegiaid ar y Tyrciaid.' He belonged to three circles of poets: the school of Dafydd Ddu Eryri, that of Gwallter Mechain
EVANS, DANIEL (Eos Dâr; 1846 - 1915), musician Born in a thatched cottage called Tŷ Coch, near Carmarthen, son of Dafydd and Esther Evans. The family moved to Aberdare, where the boy began to work in a coalmine at the early age of 8. As the father was a printer in the office of Y Gwron and Seren Gomer, the son came to know such persons as Llew Llwyfo (Lewis W. Lewis) and others who worked in that printing office. When he was 11 years old he

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