Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID (1805 - 1885), cleric and musician ' Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear,' the anthem composed by J. Ambrose Lloyd at the Bethesda eisteddfod of 1852. He was also a good preacher and an acceptable parish priest. He died 24 November 1885 at Llanddoget rectory, the home of his nephew, and was buried in Tal-y-llyn. His brother RICHARD OWEN EDWARDS, born 31 July 1808, was also a pupil of Dafydd Siencyn Morgan, and went to Ystrad Meurig school. He taught music in
EDWARDS, PETER (Pedr Alaw; 1854 - 1934), musician conducted a children's choir. An anthem which he composed for a Liverpool eisteddfod was awarded the prize by Owain Alaw (John Owen, 1821 - 1883). After five years in Liverpool he worked at Barrow-in-Furness, removing in 1877 to London as a shorthand writer to a firm of timber merchants. He attended music classes at Birkbeck College and at Trinity College of Music under Turpin and Karn. He conducted
EDWARDS, ROBERT (1796 - 1862), musician -four years, as precentor there, he succeeded John Ellis (1760 - 1839). He composed ' Caersalem,' 8.7.4., one of the most popular hymn-tunes in Wales. Written in 1824, it appeared in Peroriaeth Hyfryd (John Parry), 1837, and became known as ' Tôn Bob y Felin ' (Bob of the Mill's tune). In 1878 it was published in Y Cysegr a'r Teulu (Thomas Gee), and there attributed to E. Roberts, but information
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Caerfallwch; 1779? - 1858), lexicographer , 1829-30, published one of his lectures on minerals, etc., 'delivered in the presence of the Society of Cymreigyddion in London on Thursday night, the 1st July, 1830.' He wrote poetry after the manner of Pughe (see two lyrics in Ceinion Awen y Cymry, 121-4). Airs composed by him are to be found, for example, in Seren Gomer, v, 224, and vi, 64. But his principal efforts were directed to enriching the
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Cynonfardd; 1848 - 1927), Independent minister and eisteddfodwr . He had a distinguished personality and a good voice which was always under perfect control; he was a fluent and popular preacher, an excellent organizer, and a leader in his denomination. In 1913 he was invested archdruid in the U.S.A. and became a shining light in the eisteddfodic world. He won many important prizes in the field of poetry and composed many hymn-tunes but, above all, he was
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (Gwilym Deudraeth; 1863 - 1940), poet intended to become a mariner, but had enough of the sea after one voyage. He went to work at the Oakeley quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, and subsequently on the Ffestiniog railway, becoming stationmaster at Tan-y-bwlch and Dduallt (or Rhosllyn). During that period he composed many striking englynion. He married Harriet Williams of Llanferres, near Mold; they had four children. Two volumes of his poetical
EDWART ap RAFF (fl. 1578-1606), poet Son of Raff ap Robert. In a cywydd composed in 1602 when he had grown old he refers to the battle of S. Quentin, 1557, as though he had been actually present. It is stated in NLW MS 5282B that he was a blind poet, but there is no reference to this elsewhere. His poems are mainly in praise of the landowning families of the Vale of Clwyd; they also include elegies on Siôn Tudur, 1602, and Simwnt
EINION ap GWALCHMAI (fl. 1203-1223), poet A portion of an awdl by him to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth mentions that prince as fighting against the English, and was therefore probably composed after the turn of the century. He also composed a beautiful elegy to Nest, daughter of Hywel, of Towyn, Meironnydd, and three awdlau to God. In one of these he refers to his intention to go on a pilgrimage over the Alps to the Holy Land. References in his
EINION WAN (fl. 1230-1245), poet verses to Dafydd are intercessionary, and were therefore composed while he was alive, and those addressed to Gruffydd were obviously composed before his final imprisonment, and therefore before 1241.
ELIDIR SAIS (fl. end of the 12th century and the first half of the 13th.), a poet He composed elegies upon Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1195), and Ednyfed Fychan (died 1246). He was not English, for we learn from Gwilym Ddu (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 277b) that he sprang 'from the wise men of Anglesey in the bosom of the sea.' Gwilym Ddu ranks his work with that of other leading poets as a 'correct canon' or a model of poetry. Most of his poems are religious, and are
ELLI (fl. 6th century), saint The ' Vita Cadoci,' composed in the late 11th century, is the only source for the legend of S. Elli. It relates that when S. Cadoc, in the course of his travels in foreign lands, landed upon a group of islands called the islands of Grimbul, the queen of that region implored him to free her from the curse of barrenness. S. Cadoc interceded for her, and eventually she bore a son, Elli, whom she
ELLIS family Bron y Foel, Ystumllyn, Ynyscynhaearn succeeded by ELLIS AP CADWALADR, of Ystumllyn (died 1597). By his wife, Elin, daughter of Owen Wynn and Elin (Salesbury), Cae'r Melwr, near Llanrwst, Ellis ap Cadwaladr was the father of OWEN ELLIS I (died 1622 - see the elegy composed by Gruffydd Phylip), through whom the line was continued, and, among other children, Griffith Ellis. GRIFFITH ELLIS (died 1667), whose wife was Margaret (died 1667

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