Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIS, TECWYN (1918 - 2012), educationalist, scholar and author Deputy Director of Education for Merionethshire, during 1960-73, and as Gwynedd's first Director of Education from 1974 until his retirement in April 1983. During his period as Director he championed the cause of bilingualism in schools at a time when Gwynedd Council's LEA was formulating and implementing its official language policy. In addition to his professional commitment to education, he was also
ELSTAN (or ELYSTAN) GLODRYDD, founder of the fifth of the 'royal tribes' of Wales , Idnerth, also had three sons; of these, Madog (died 1140) had five sons. Two of Madog's sons, Hywel and Cadwgan, were killed in 1142, and a third, Maredudd, in 1146; the other two, CADWALLON (died 1179) and EINION CLUD (died 1177), ruled respectively over Maelienydd and Elfael. They were not on good terms, and in 1160 Cadwallon seized Einion and handed him over to Owain Gwynedd, who surrendered him to
EOS GWYNEDD - see THOMAS, JOHN
EVANS, CADWALADR (1664 - 1745), Pennsylvanian Welsh Quaker Born at Fron-goch in the parish of Llanfor, Meironnydd. He joined the Society of Friends, emigrated to Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, in 1698, and was accepted into the ministry of the Friends. He died in 1745, aged 81. Cadwaladr Evans was great-great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln.
EVANS, DAVID TUDOR (1822 - 1896), journalist secretary of Narberth district Sunday school union. Evans gave up his shop to establish at Haverfordwest (1847) a Liberal weekly newspaper, The Principality, which he transferred to Cardiff (1848) with Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd, 1820 - 1852) as editor. The same year differences on educational policy led to the editor's resignation, and two years later the paper ceased publication, the venture leaving
EVANS, EVAN (1671 - 1721), cleric and missioner in Pennsylvania that Evans had christened as many as 800 persons in Philadelphia, and the S.P.G. sent out Welsh -speaking clerics and schoolmasters to support him (three school-masters, e.g., in 1711). He held Anglican services in Radnorshire as early as 1701 (in a private house), and also in the Gwynedd district; churches were built in these places later. He died either in Maryland or at Philadelphia, 11 October
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd; 1795 - 1855), cleric and poet Darluniadol, 1844-7. Ieuan Glan Geirionydd assisted Rev. John Parry of Chester to edit the monthly Goleuad Gwynedd; in 1830 he sent a letter to the bishops asking for their patronage for a proposed Welsh periodical on the lines of the Saturday Magazine, and in 1833 Y Gwladgarwr appeared. Ieuan edited this for three years but, as he lost money on it, it passed into the ownership of Edward Parry of Chester
EVANS, MORRIS EDDIE (1890 - 1984), composer composer John Henry Roberts ('Pencerdd Gwynedd'). He acted as organist of Edge Lane chapel in Liverpool for 36 years and conducted the Gwalia Mixed Choir and the ATM Male Voice Choir. He spent his working life as a driver and salesman for Hughes Brothers of Aintree, meat purveyors. He lived in several different places in the Liverpool and Manchester area and for a short while in Prestatyn. He began
EVANS, OWEN (1829 - 1920), Congregational minister and author Born 19 November 1829 in Pen-y-bont-fawr, Montgomeryshire. He hailed from a deeply religious family - on his mother's side he was related to the hymnist, Ann Griffiths. He worked in a factory at first. He was received into church membership at Llanfyllin when he was sixteen. For a while he was at a school kept by Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd); later he himself kept school in the same place. He began
EVANS, WILLIAM (Wil Ifan; 1883 - 1968), minister (Congl.), poet and writer in Welsh and English chief prizes at provincial eisteddfodau and the crown for a pryddest at the national eisteddfod three times: at Abergavenny in 1913 ('Ieuan Gwynedd'), Birkenhead in 1917 ('Pwyll pendefig Dyfed'), and at Pwllheli in 1925 for his best known poem to his childhood area ('Bro fy mebyd'). He adjudicated many times at the national eisteddfod and was Archdruid of Wales in the Gorsedd of Bards, 1947-50. He was
EVANS, WILLIAM CHARLES (1911 - 1988), chemist and biologist Charles Evans was born 1 October 1911 in Bethel, near Caernarfon, Gwynedd, the third son of the five children of Robert and Elizabeth Evans; the father was a stone mason at Dinorwic quarry. After receiving his early education at Bethel primary school and Caernarfon Central and grammar schools, he won the John Hughes Exhibition to Bangor University College where he graduated with first-class
FITZ WARIN family, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston after having been outlawed. Fulk aided Llywelyn the Great against the English in 1217, but made peace with the government of Henry III by February 1218. Whittington was captured by Llywelyn at the start of 1223 and in 1226 Henry III met the lord of Gwynedd at Shrewsbury to discuss the trouble caused by Fulk Fitz Warin and other border barons. The enmity between Llywelyn and Fulk Fitz Warin resulted in

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