Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, STEPHEN OWEN (1886? - 1972), miners' leader and Labour politician Ash in 1904, and his wife Esther Owen, a local shop assistant and a very strong-willed, resourceful individual. Davies was educated at the local Cap-coch School, Abercwmboi, and began work in the Cwmpennar coal mine (where his brothers also worked) at the tender age of twelve. He studied mining engineering at night classes, and in 1908, sponsored by the Brecon Memorial College, he entered University
DAVIES, WILLIAM ANTHONY (1886 - 1962), journalist Born 1 March 1886 in Cwarter Coch, a thatched cottage in Cwmgrenig, Glanaman, Carmarthenshire, third son of the eight children of Daniel Davies and his wife. His father was a coalminer from Ysguborwen farm, Betws, and his mother was a native of Bryn, Llanelli. At 13 he joined his father and brothers in Gelliceidrim drift mine. He was a doorboy working with hauliers for some months but his father
DOCTOR COCH, Y - see PRYS, ELLIS
EDWARDS, JOHN (1755 - 1823), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter would not allow him to preach; he moved first to Gelli-gynan (Llanarmon-yn-Iâl), then in 1811 to Plas Coch in Llanychan, Denbighshire, and finally (1817) to Caerwys Hall, Flintshire; in all these districts he founded Methodist causes. He was a skilled farmer, and took great interest in veterinary medicine, publishing at Denbigh in 1816 Y Cyfarwyddyd Profedig i bob Perchen Anifeiliaid. He died 19
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Cymro Gwyllt; 1826 - 1884), stonemason and musician . He died 30 July 1884 at Cnwch Coch, Cardiganshire, and was buried in Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn churchyard.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM ROBERT (Glanllafar; 1858 - 1921), Congregational minister, poet, and littérateur Born 19 September 1858 at Tŷ Coch, Parc, Bala, son of Edward Jones Edwards and Annie his wife. He was educated in the local schools and at the Independent College, Bala, under Michael D. Jones. The family were Methodists, but he became a member of Hen Gapel Llanuwchllyn (Congregational) in 1876, and about the same time began to preach. After his ordination at Sardis, Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire
ELIAS, THOMAS (Bardd Coch; 1792 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymn-writer
ELLIS BRYN-COCH - see ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist illustrations: (a) ' The Book of Welsh Ballads illustrated in outline. By Ellis Bryn-coch.' This contains seven illustrations dealing with ' Bessi o Lansanffraid,' a ballad by John Jones ('Jac Glan-y-gors,' 1766 - 1821, and (b) ' Illustrated Life of Richard Robert Jones Aberdaron by Ellis Owen, Ellis Bryn Coch,' [ Richard Robert Jones ] which contains eleven original pictures. Also in the National Library is
ELLIS-GRIFFITH, Sir ELLIS (JONES) (1860 - 1926), barrister and M.P. Born 23 May 1860 in Birmingham, where his father, Thomas Morris Griffith, was a builder. While Ellis Griffith was still a child, his father retired and the family came to live at Ty Coch, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey. He went to school at Brynsiencyn and Holt and was one of the first batch of students at the University College, Aberystwyth. He graduated in the University of London when he was 19 years
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
EVANS, DANIEL (Eos Dâr; 1846 - 1915), musician Born in a thatched cottage called Tŷ Coch, near Carmarthen, son of Dafydd and Esther Evans. The family moved to Aberdare, where the boy began to work in a coalmine at the early age of 8. As the father was a printer in the office of Y Gwron and Seren Gomer, the son came to know such persons as Llew Llwyfo (Lewis W. Lewis) and others who worked in that printing office. When he was 11 years old he

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