Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1719 - 1789), Independent minister, and architect the original ' Pont-y-ty-pridd.' For the history of Edwards's endeavours at Pontypridd, we are chiefly indebted to his friend and former neighbour, Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799). Morgan's account was amplified and slightly corrected by the architect himself. Edwards made four attempts (1746-54) before he succeeded in completing his contract to build, for £500, a bridge that would stand for seven years
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School William Edwards was born 6 December 1821 at Caerphilly, one of five children of Evan Edwards, a family doctor in Caerphilly, and his wife Caroline Morgan. William was the great-grandson of William Edwards, the celebrated pastor of the historic Groes-wen chapel, Caerphilly and architect, in 1756, of the bridge crossing the river Taff at Pontypridd which had, at that time, the longest single span
ELLIS, GRIFFITH (1844 - 1913), Calvinistic Methodist minister , with a meticulous care for exactitude in dating; but he overburdened his books with detail and was far too fond of quotations. His other books were Hanes Methodistiaeth Corris a'r Amgylchoedd, 1885, Welsh biographies of William Carey, 1897, W. E. Gladstone, 1898, and Edward Morgan (1817 - 1871) of Dyffryn, 1906 - he also wrote many articles in periodicals. Neither as preacher nor as writer was Ellis
ELLIS, MORGAN ALBERT (1832 - 1901), Welsh-American preacher and editor
ELLIS, THOMAS EDWARD (1859 - 1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5) Students' Association of the University College of Wales, and warden (1896-9) of the Guild of Graduates of the University. He edited the first volume of the works of Morgan Llwyd, a task subsequently completed by his brother-in-law J. H. Davies. He married Annie, daughter of R. J. Davies, Cwrt-mawr, Llangeitho, who survived him, with a son, Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. He died at Cannes, France, 5 April 1899
ENDERBIE, PERCY (c. 1606 - 1670), historian and antiquary Author of Cambria Triumphans; second son, according to Lincolnshire Pedigrees (Harleian Society), of Thomas Enderby, attorney, of Lincoln, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Rusforth, Coley Hall, Yorkshire. Percy Enderbie's wife was Winifred, sister of Sir Edward Morgan of Llantarnam, Monmouth, daughter of lady Frances, daughter of the 4th earl of Worcester. Enderbie lived many years in
ERBERY, WILLIAM (1604 - 1654), Puritan and Independent he was haled before the Committee for Plundered Ministers, 8 February 1652/3, to answer for his heresies (Clarke Papers, ii, 233). He had close connections with the Welsh Puritans, and Morgan Llwyd thought of him as his teacher. He was a violent critic of his co-religionists, and in matters of education opposed the Puritan emphasis on what he called 'carnal knowledge.' On 12 October 1653 Erbery and
EVAN, EVAN DAFYDD (fl. 1771-9), early Methodist exhorter , Cordwainer' in the will of Morgan Rhys, 1779 - he was one of the executors of the last will of that hymn-writer. The date of his death is not known.
EVANS, ALCWYN CARYNI (1828 - 1902), antiquary wife was Elizabeth Amelia Rees (died 1867), daughter of John Morgan, and widow of an innkeeper who kept the Castle Inn in Priory Street, Carmarthen, and for several years they kept the Castle Inn, and later the Bird in Hand, John Street, Carmarthen. They had no children. He married his second wife Mary (1835-1884) in 1870, she was the daughter of William Thomas, a Llandovery ropemaker who was the
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar only on Middle Welsh texts but on other aspects of Welsh literature such as the 'Gododdin' and the work of the earliest poets, the language and influence of the Bible, hymn writers, Morgan Rhys in particular (his collection Emynau Morgan Rhys was published by Gwasg Gregynog in 2001 after his death), and on the fortunes of the Irish and Cornish languages. There is a list of his publications up to 1988
EVANS, DAVID (1874 - 1948), musician Born 6 February 1874 in Resolven, Glamorganshire, son of Morgan and Sarah Evans. He was educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and at University College, Cardiff, where he succeeded Dr. Joseph Parry, in 1903, as head of the department of Music, becoming professor in 1908. He gained early prominence in Wales as a composer, with the following works: Llawenhewch yn yr Iôr, a short oratorio, performed
EVANS, DAVID (Dewi Dawel; 1814 - 1891), tailor, publican, and poet Daniel Evans, 1939. He was particularly interested in the history of Talley parish with special reference to the ruined monastery and its bell, and at Talley eisteddfod, 24 April 1891, competed unsuccessfully for the prize offered for an essay on the history of the parish. Two of his sons were schoolmasters, Thomas Morgan Evans (1838 - 1892) at Cwm-du, and Dafydd Evans (1842 - 1893) at Talley. A

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