Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIOT, Sir GEORGE (1815 - 1893), BARONET, owner and developer of coalmines Londonderry's mines in the Durham coal field. After resigning c. 1860 he bought Kuper & Co., Gateshead, makers of industrial wires which had almost become bankrupt in 1849. He went into partnership with Richard Glass, the inventor of submarine wire insulation, to recreate the company as Glass & Elliot, or from 1864 the Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co., the company which made the first submarine wires
ELLIS family Bron y Foel, Ystumllyn, Ynyscynhaearn This family, the name of which is alphabetized here, for the sake of convenience, under Ellis, produced some well-known members before Owen Ellis (died 1622) appears to have stabilized the surname. It claimed descent from Collwyn ap Tangno. To one branch of it belonged Meredydd, ancestor of the Vaughan family of Trawsgoed, Cardiganshire, afterwards earls of Lisburne, Iorwerth, ancestor of the
ELLIS, DAVID (1736 - 1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts , Caernarfonshire, Llangeinwen, Anglesey, Derwen, Denbighshire, and Amlwch, Anglesey, before he was appointed vicar of Llanberis, 9 October 1788. He became vicar of Criccieth on 19 July 1789, and there he remained until his death. He was buried at Criccieth, 11 May 1795. A versatile poet, Ellis wrote elegies on Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) and on his old schoolmaster Edward Richard. Probably his greatest
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 September 1710 and appointed a canon of Bangor cathedral in the same year. He surrendered the latter office on receiving the prebend of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd on 26 March 1713, and was presented to the rectorate of Llanbedr-y-cennin with the vicariate of Caerhun on 24 July 1719. He married, 13 May 1720, Catherine, daughter of Richard Humphreys, Hendregwenllian, Penrhyndeudraeth, and step-sister of bishop
ELLIS, JOHN (d. 1665), cleric and quasi-Puritan preach by the Triers, and the eulogy pronounced upon him by the uncompromising Cavalier Rowland Vaughan of Caer-gai, go far to prove that he had very little sympathy with the later religious policy of the Puritans. He found no difficulty in conforming after the Restoration - no better proof need be found than the publication in 1660 of his Defenso Fidei, a Latin defence of the Anglican position and a
ELLIS, JOHN GRIFFITH (1723/4 - 1805), Methodist exhorter preached at the first Association in Caernarvonshire, held at Clynnog, before 1769. He fell away later for many years owing to drink, but overcame that weakness and is found preaching again at Caergeiliog in 1788 and 1796, and in Liverpool in 1799, and in 1800, with Thomas Charles, Thomas Jones, Denbigh, and Richard Lloyd, Beaumaris. John Elias, in his first society-meeting in 1793 at Hendre Howel
ELLIS, MORGAN ALBERT (1832 - 1901), Welsh-American preacher and editor Born 19 September 1832, at Melin-y-coed, near Machynlleth. Although his parents were in humble circumstances, he received help which enabled him to be well educated. He was master of a national school which was under the patronage of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, bart., Nannau, Meironnydd, and afterwards became the first headmaster of the British school at Nant Peris, Caernarfonshire. In 1853 he
ELLIS, RICHARD (1865 - 1928), librarian and bibliographer . His work on Lhuyd made him a specialist in the history of many other Welshmen who were connected with Oxford. He published (a) Facsimiles of Letters of Oxford Welshmen (Henry Vaughan the Silurist, Sir Leoline Jenkins, Edward Lhuyd, Ellis Wynne, Edward Samuel, Moses Williams), and (b) An Elizabethan Broadside in the Welsh Language, being a Brief granted in 1591 to Sion Salusburi of Gwyddelwern
ELLIS, RICHARD (1784 - 1824), excise officer and musician
ELLIS, RICHARD (1775 - 1855), musician Born at Dolgelley. He was a shoemaker by trade. He was taught the elements of music by John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr, 1740 - 1821); when the latter died Richard Ellis succeeded him as precentor at S. Mary's church, Dolgelley. He is said to have collected psalm-tunes and published them in a small volume. He composed several hymn-tunes and anthems. Few collections of hymn-tunes omit the hymn-tune
ELLIS, ROBERT (Cynddelw; 1812 - 1875), Baptist minister, preacher, poet, antiquary, and commentator Born 3 February 1812 at Ty'n-y-meini near Pen-y-bont-fawr, Montgomeryshire. He was a farm labourer from 1822 until 1835. His interest in literature and antiquities and his knowledge of poetry were probably kindled by his mother and rustic literati such as Richard Morris, the turner of Pentre-felin, James Jones the tailor, and Humphrey Bromley, the Unitarian preacher. These interests absorbed him

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