Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner 1948-49 he was largely responsible for the Republican Movement within Plaid Cymru. The aims of the movement were independence for Wales, promotion of socialism, and the creation of a people's government. Gwynfor Evans, J. E. Jones and Wynne Samuel were unsympathetic to the movement and expelled its members from the party in July 1949. Fifty left and in a meeting in Neath in May 1949, chaired by
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar Dictionary of Biblical Biography, ed. C. L. Wallis (1970); 'Gehard von Rad' in Old Testament Theology in Contemporary Discussion, ed. Robert Laurin (1970), with J. E. Morgan-Wynne, The Last Seven Days (1999).
DAVIES, JOHN (Taliesin Hiraethog; 1841 - 1894), farmer and poet verse and was also rewarded for a novel, ' Y Sesiwn yng Nghymru ' (on the Great Sessions of Wales). His free verse is rather better than his work in the strict metres. His best poems are, perhaps, ' Pryddest Llywarch Hen ' and ' Rhieingerdd Elwy ac Alwen.' He wrote a great deal for the Voelas family (see Wynne of Voelas) and was, at one time, regarded as their household bard.
EDWARDS, CHARLES (1628 - after 1691), Puritan man of letters insanity. He completed the writing of the autobiography on 1 July 1691; what his history was after that is not known. Y Ffydd Ddi-ffuant has won a secure place for itself among Welsh prose classics. It cannot be denied that Charles Edwards is the chief writer of Welsh prose between the days of Morgan Llwyd and those of Ellis Wynne.
EDWARDS, JOSEPH (1814 - 1882), sculptor , and his work remains today in many churches and cemeteries in Wales, in Westminster Abbey, in Merthyr town hall, and elsewhere. He executed busts of members of the Beaufort, Guest, Raglan, and Crawshay families, and of such well-known Welsh people as Taliesin ap Iolo, Thomas Stephens, G. T. Clark, William Williams (M.P. for Coventry), and Edith Wynne. In 1859 the widow of George Virtue, proprietor
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Caerfallwch; 1779? - 1858), lexicographer London to look for work. They were unsuccessful and had to beg their way home. In 1800 or 1801 he married Margaret Jones of Trellyniau, Halkin, and with her dower set up a saddler's business at Northop. The business failed. In 1802 he was appointed secretary to a colliery in the district. In 1803, his first wife having died, he married a Miss Wynne of Northop. In 1806 he was transferred by the colliery
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
EMRYS-ROBERTS, EDWARD (1878 - 1924), first professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Welsh National School of Medicine archaeology. A member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association since 1914, he was a keen participant in the society's summer programme of excursions and at the time of his death he was serving as one of the society's local secretaries for Glamorgan. On 15 January 1924 Emrys-Roberts died at his Penarth home at the age of 45, leaving a widow, Rosamond, youngest daughter of J. Wynne Painter of Amlwch
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician , and the result was the establishment of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh Language Society) in the Pontarddulais Conference fringe in August 1962. At the same conference Gwynfor managed to stave off Wynne Samuel's bid for the Presidency by a clear but not overwhelming majority. The second challenge came from New Nation, a group of young radicals, including Phil Williams and Emrys Roberts, who
EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Wynne of Melai. They were condemned to death under the statute of 27 Eliz. for being seminary priests, but nearly three months elapsed before the sentences were carried out. During this period the priests were allowed considerable liberty, and it thus came about that the notice of execution was brought to Fr. Evans while he was playing tennis near S. John's church. His remark: 'What hurry is there
EVANS, THOMAS (1739 - 1803), booksellers nowhere specifically called a Welshman, though he did, in 1774, publish a new edition of the History of Wales by William Wynne. But remembering that his place of business was in the Strand, one may feel inclined to identify him with the ' Thomas Evans, Strand ', who was a member of the Cymmrodorion Society in 1778. His qualification for membership then was that he had a ' Welsh father'; this description
FINCH, Sir WILLIAM HENEAGE WYNNE - see WYNNE-FINCH, Sir WILLIAM HENEAGE

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