Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School vice-president. Indeed, for many years Edwards was a close associate of John Batchelor, mayor of Cardiff in 1853 and the town's leading radical in the mid-Victorian period, hated and loved in equal measure by the local people. Edwards served as a magistrate for the borough of Cardiff and the county of Glamorgan, and for some years as a town councillor until the pressure of competing commitments
EDWIN family Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, ., 1738, M.P. for Westminster 1742-7, and for Glamorgan from 1747 till his death, 29 June 1756. His wife, Lady Charlotte Edwin (daughter of the 4th duke of Hamilton; she died 5 February 1774), is a figure in early Methodist history, and finds a place in the biographies of Lady Huntingdon and of George Whitefield, and the journals of John Wesley. It was she who presented David Jones (1736 - 1810) to the
EL KAREY, YOUHANNAH (1843/4 - 1907), missionary the patronage of Welsh Presbyterian minister John Mills, who had received the assistance of El Karey in reading Arabic when in Jerusalem, El Karey gained a theological education in Wales and England, funded by friends of Mills. He studied at the Baptist College in Pontypool in 1863-64, and at Regent's Park College in 1865. By the time El Karey was finishing his studies, Mills was setting up a
ELEANOR DE MONTFORT (c. 1258 - 1282), princess and diplomat Tywysogion records that Eleanor and Llywelyn were married by proxy, trwy eiriau cynddrychol (per verba de presenti) before she sailed from France. This is a claim later backed by Pope John XXI who, intervening on Llywelyn's behalf for Eleanor's release, supported the couple's claim that they were married 'by words of the present'. During the period of her imprisonment, chronicles, chancery documents and
ELIAS, DAVID (1790 - 1856), preacher and schoolmaster Born at Brynllwyn Bach, Aber-erch, near Pwllheli, 16 June 1790, son of Elias and Jane Jones, and brother of John Elias. He began to preach in 1815 and was ordained in 1835. He opened a school at Holyhead in 1817, but afterwards lived at Bryn-du, moving thence to Pentraeth, where he kept a shop. Of melancholic temperament, he was a stern preacher; like his brother, he was a hyper-Calvinist - he
ELIAS, JOHN (1774 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and famous preacher Christened 6 May 1774 (his date of his birth is not known), his parents being Elias and Jane Jones, Brynllwyn (or Crynllwyn) Bach, Abererch, near Pwllheli. His brother was David Elias (1790 - 1856). He received a religious upbringing from his grandfather, John Elias, and when he began to preach he adopted his grandfather's name. He was admitted exhorter at Christmas 1794 and soon his fame as a
ELIAS, JOHN ROOSE (Y Thesbiad; 1819 - 1881), poet and prose writer Born 9 December 1819 at Bryn-du, Anglesey, son of David Elias, Pentraeth, and Elizabeth Roose, and nephew of John Elias. He received his early education at a school kept by Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn, 1806 - 1889) at Pen-y-garnedd; and afterwards R. Hughes of Gaerwen was his tutor. Later he entered Tattenhall school. His parents had intended that he should assist them in the family business at
ELISE JOHN Y GWEHYDD, weaver nothing is known of his life. He was obviously a free-verse poet and there is one example of his work in Llan. MS. 42 (57), entitled ' Cyffes Elisse John y Gwehydd '.
ELLIS family Bron y Foel, Ystumllyn, Ynyscynhaearn ), daughter of Ellis Wynn ap Robert, Rhwng-y-ddwyryd. Griffith and Margaret Ellis were the parents of Thomas Ellis (died 1673), rector of Dolgelley, and John Ellis (died 15 October 1693), chancellor of St Asaph. Owen Ellis I, by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Wynn ab Humphrey, Cesail Gyfarch, was the father of a large family, among the children being ELLIS ELLIS (died 1631), of Ystumllyn, and Robert
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist Born in Aber-erch, Caernarfonshire, his mother being the daughter of John Roberts (Siôn Lleyn, 1749 - 1817; the artist was also related to John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion, 1786 - 1859. He was apprenticed to a carpenter but, as he displayed some talent for painting, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau, Meironnydd, brought him to the notice of Sir Martin Archer Shee, the painter, who gave him
ELLIS, JOHN (1674 - 1735), cleric and antiquary Humphrey Humphreys; they had three children - one, John Ellis, Ll.B., became vicar of Bangor and archdeacon of Merioneth, but the others died in infancy. He died at Llanbedr in July 1735; the register of that parish records his burial on the 12th day of the month. John Ellis took a great interest in antiquities. Browne Willis acknowledges the valuable assistance which he rendered in the compilation of A
ELLIS, JOHN (d. 1665), cleric and quasi-Puritan

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