Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade union leader and politician privilege (1962) and Hewn from the rock (1967). He also edited Ar y cyd: cerddi gan Huw T. Edwards, Mathonwy Hughes, Gwilym R. Jones a Rhydwen Williams (1962). He was honoured by Gorsedd y Beirdd and the University of Wales (LL.D., honoris causa, 1957), but he refused to accept the M.B.E. and declined an invitation to be knighted at the Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon castle in July 1969
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn y Potiau; 1699? - 1776), translator and poet are characteristic of the work of the eisteddfod poets, more particularly his best-known work, the twenty-four englynion to the belfry of Llangollen church, 1749. He translated the second and 'third' parts of The Pilgrim's Progress. Judging by the translator's 'Notice' the second part was published (by Stafford Prys) probably in 1761-2 and not in 1767 as William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) asserts. The
EDWARDS, JOHN (1692? - 1774), parish clerk and poet the almanacs produced by Gwilym Howell of Llanidloes, 1766-75. He was buried in Manafon churchyard, 14 January 1774.
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters , and had a brilliant career, winning the three chief university prizes in history and a first class in honours (1887). Two important influences upon him in his early Oxford days should be noted. The first was the aestheticism of Ruskin (with whom he afterwards corresponded) and of William Morris. The second was the 'Dafydd ap Gwilym Society,' on which see T. Rowland Hughes ('Cymdeithas Dafydd ap
EDWARDS, ROGER (1811 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister , traditional, attitude of Calvinistic Methodism. His pioneer work in the Cronicl foreshadowed that of Gwilym Hiraethog in Yr Amserau and of Thomas Gee in Y Faner, and laid the foundation for the political Liberalism which later became so characteristic of North Wales. He also edited Y Pregethwr, 1841-2, Y Dyddiadur Methodistaidd, 1843-86, and Y Salmydd Cymreig (first published in 1840). He was also a poet
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Callestr, Wil Ysgeifiog; 1790 - 1855), poet
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Padarn; 1786 - 1857), poet
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (Gwilym Deudraeth; 1863 - 1940), poet
EINION ap COLLWYN (fl. 1100?), prince and warrior Lewis Glyn Cothi and Gwilym Tew assert that he was a man of Gwynedd who migrated to Glamorgan in Iestyn's days - and George Owen adds that his father Collwyn was nephew to Angharad daughter of Ednowain ap Bleddyn of Ardudwy and mother of Iestyn. It may be observed that Lloyd's A History of Wales ignores Einion completely (see p. 402, f.n.), and that he had intended to exclude him from the present work
EINION ap GWALCHMAI (fl. 1203-1223), poet not sleep, let us chant the canonical prayers.' His religious poems, like his elegy to Nest, are melodious and graphic, and it is evident that in his day he was a popular poet. Gwilym Ddu o Arfon states (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 277b) that his poems 'caught on' 'like a surging fountain.' Another indication of his popularity is to be found in the fact that he became a character in folk-lore
ELIDIR SAIS (fl. end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th.), a poet He composed elegies upon Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1195), and Ednyfed Fychan (died 1246). He was not English, for we learn from Gwilym Ddu (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 277b) that he sprang 'from the wise men of Anglesey in the bosom of the sea.' Gwilym Ddu ranks his work with that of other leading poets as a 'correct canon' or a model of poetry. Most of his poems are religious, and are
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist painting of a group of about a hundred Welsh men of letters for which William Morris (Gwilym Tawe) paid him 100 guineas, and (b) a portrait of Siôn Wyn o Eifion entitled ' The Bard in Bed,' which is reproduced in the 1861 and 1910 editions of Gwaith barddonol Siôn Wyn o Eifion; the original of (b) is in the National Library of Wales. There are in the Library also two of his books with original

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