Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EINION OFFEIRIAD (fl. c. 1320), the person whose name is associated with the earliest Welsh grammar or metrical grammar which we possess that is, a work dealing with the art of metrics and giving an abbreviated version in Welsh of the Latin grammar used in the Middle Ages. He sang an awdl to Rhys ap Gruffydd ap Hywel ap Gruffydd ab Ednyfed Fychan (died 1356); this belongs to the period 1314-22. Thomas Wiliems maintains in NLW MS 3029B that he was a native of Gwynedd and that he compiled the grammar in honour and in praise ('yr
ELIDIR SAIS (fl. end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th.), a poet Fychan, the tradition mentioned by Sir J. E. Lloyd (A History of Wales, 684) that that statesman had had a military career is borne out. A son of the 'lord' Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132 - 1197) was called Hywel Sais (he died 1204) because he had been forced to live for years in England; and it is not inconceivable that the attitude of Elidir Sais towards Llywelyn the Great had compelled him to do the same
ELLIS family Bron y Foel, Ystumllyn, Ynyscynhaearn IEUAN AB EINION (sheriff 1389), Ieuan by HYWEL VYCHAN, HYWEL by RHYS AP HYWEL. Rhys ap Hywel, of Bron y Foel, was followed by HYWEL AP RHYS (see The history of the Gwydir family), and this Hywel ap Rhys by RHYS AP HYWEL, who in turn was followed by THOMAS AP RHYS, who inherited, through his mother, extensive lands in Hopesland, Flintshire, which, however, he sold. CADWALDR AP THOMAS, his son was
ELLIS, REES (fl. 1714), bard Three of his poems are preserved in manuscript, viz. a poem in praise of true love, to the tune of 'Heavy Heart,' in NLW MS 1710B: Poems (133), lovers' discourse to the tune of 'Leave Land,' and an exhortation against swearing, in NLW MS 9B (3, 565). In another manuscript, NLW MS 3201A, there is a poem by ' Rhys Elis of Chirk' - 'Man's life compared to the twelve months of the year.' This poem is
ELLIS, ROBERT (Cynddelw; 1812 - 1875), Baptist minister, preacher, poet, antiquary, and commentator notice as a poet and gave him his bardic name. His masterpiece is probably 'Cywydd y Berwyn,' but his 'Awdl ar Ddistawrwydd' is also charming. He had a national reputation as an eisteddfod adjudicator (on poetry mostly), conductor, and orator. In Tafol y Beirdd, 1853, he discussed the 'twenty-four metres'; he edited the 2nd impression of Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru (by Rhys Jones), and Isaac Foulkes's
ELSTAN (or ELYSTAN) GLODRYDD, founder of the fifth of the 'royal tribes' of Wales Henry II; but Einion escaped from custody. In 1163 both brothers rallied to the banner of Owain Gwynedd at Corwen, and later both were homagers of the ' lord ' Rhys ap Gruffydd; both, again, co-operated in the re-establishment of Cwm Hir abbey, 1176. Of Cadwallon's three sons, Maelgwn (who took the cross in 1188) died in 1197; his son Cadwallon died in 1234. Einion Clud had two sons: the elder, EINION
EVAN(S), EDWARD (1716 - 1798), Presbyterian minister and poet Born March 1716 (possibly 1717) at Llwydcoed, Aberdare, son of Ifan ap Shôn ap Rhys, a weaver and smallholder. After a few years as a weaver he was apprenticed to carpentry under Lewis Hopkin, who also instructed him in the practice of the strict metres in poetry. In 1749 he took the farm of Ton Coch, above Dyffryn House, Mountain Ash. He had joined (c. 1748) the Nonconformist congregation at Cwm
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.
EVAN, RHYS (1779 - 1876), poet - see EVANS, EDWARD
EVANS, Ap Rhys - see EVANS, ARISE
EVANS, ARISE (fl. 1607-1660), prognosticator
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer Geiriadur Cymraeg between 1887 and 1896. In the early seventies he gradually became emancipated from William Owen Pughe's ideas through contacts made with several young scholars whose scientific training must have deeply influenced him; among these were John Peter, (Sir) John Rhys, and John Gwenogvryn Evans. Through the good offices of Benjamin Williams (Gwynionydd, 1821 - 1891), incumbent of Llanover

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