Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIS, ELLIS ab (fl. 1685-1726), cleric and poet Several biographical dictionaries have erred in dating him a century earlier. Nothing is known of his family or of his early connections, although the title above a series of englynion by him in NLW MS 255A states that he was born in the parish of Llandrillo, Meironnydd. He held the perpetual curacy of Eglwys Rhos, Caernarfonshire, for nearly thirty-two years; his first entry in the parish
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 EDWARD (1859 - 1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5) the family of John Cory, S. Mellons, he became private secretary to (Sir) John Tomlinson Brunner, industrialist and Liberal M.P. for Northwich, and also engaged in intermittent journalism. In July 1886 he was adopted Liberal candidate for Merioneth and elected to Parliament. His unsparing advocacy of Welsh interests marked him out as a leader in Welsh life, and he had a considerable share in
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. Born 23 May 1860 in Birmingham, where his father, Thomas Morris Griffith, was a builder. While Ellis Griffith was still a child, his father retired and the family came to live at Ty Coch, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey. He went to school at Brynsiencyn and Holt and was one of the first batch of students at the University College, Aberystwyth. He graduated in the University of London when he was 19 years
EMMANUEL, IVOR LEWIS (1927 - 2007), singer and actor Ivor Emmanuel was born at 3 Prince Street, Margam on November 7 1927, the son of Stephen John Emmanuel (1905-1941), a steelworker, and his wife Ivy Margaretta (née Lewis, 1908-1941). He had a younger sister and brother, Mair and John. When he was less than a year old the family moved to Pontrhydyfen, the village in which the actor Richard Burton was born, and the two became friends. On May 11
EMRYS-ROBERTS, EDWARD (1878 - 1924), first professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Welsh National School of Medicine , Anglesey, whom he had married in 1910, and a family of six young children. Three days later, following a funeral service at All Saints church, he was buried in Penarth Cemetery.
ENDERBIE, PERCY (c. 1606 - 1670), historian and antiquary in 1670, and to have been buried at Caerleon-on-Usk. In his family pedigree, he is entered between a brother born in 1604 and a sister born in 1608.
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog The family of Tan-y-bwlch (or Bwlch Coed y Dyffryn), Maentwrog, Meironnydd, claimed descent from Collwyn ap Tangno. According to the pedigrees, ROBERT AB IFAN, whose will was dated 24 August 1541, was twelfth in descent from Collwyn. As with other families in west Merioneth there was a connection with Osbwrn Wyddel - through the marriage of Robert ab Ifan with Annes, daughter of Nicholas ap
EVANS family, printers
EVANS, ANNIE FLORENCE (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary Florrie Evans was born on 15 December 1884 in New Quay, Cardiganshire, the second of the four children of David Owen Evans (1853-1918), a mariner, and his wife Margaret (née Jones, 1853-1929), who were living at 5 Marine Terrace in 1881, and at 4 Lewis Terrace ten years later. By 1901, following her father's promotion to captain, the family moved to 12 Marine Terrace which remained their home
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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