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EMRYS ab IWAN - gweler JONES, ROBERT AMBROSE
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EMRYS-ROBERTS, EDWARD (1878 - 1924), first professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Welsh National School of Medicine Edward Emrys-Roberts was born 14 May, 1878 in Liverpool, the eldest son of E. S. Roberts of Dawlish, Devon and Mary Evans, youngest daughter of Emrys Evans of Cotton Hall, Denbigh. Educated at Liverpool College between 1890 and 1895 he became a medical student at University College, Liverpool, gaining the MB ChB qualification of what was then Victoria University in 1902. In 1900, while still a
EVANS, Sir DAVID EMRYS (1891 - 1966), educationist and translator University Education in Dundee 1951-52. He was awarded the degree of LL.D. honoris causa by the University of Wales and the University of Liverpool. The city of Bangor made him an honorary freeman in 1958. He was knighted in 1952. Sir Emrys published the following works: Amserau'r Testament Newydd (1926), Crefydd a Chymdeithas (1933), Y Clasuron yng Nghymru (the B.B.C.'s annual lecture in Welsh, 1952), and
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, JOHN EMRYS (1853 - 1931), South African banker Born at Bron-y-berllan, Denbighshire, 1853, son of Emrys Evans, Calvinistic Methodist minister. He became a bank official and went to South Africa in 1882. During the South African war he was financial adviser to the commander-in-chief (lord Roberts); in August 1900 he was made controller of Transvaal treasury and later auditor-general of the Transvaal. He was a director of Barclay's Bank
EVANS, MALDWYN LEWIS (1937 - 2009), champion bowler Evans. After a service at Carmel Welsh Independent Chapel, Treherbert, where his father-in-law the Reverend Emrys M. Jones (1909-1985), once ministered, Mal Evans was cremated at Glyntaff Crematorium, Pontypridd on 11 January 2010.
EVANS, WILLIAM EMRYS (1924 - 2004), banker and philanthropist Emrys Evans was born on 4 April 1924, the son of Richard and Mary Elizabeth Evans, Maesglas, Y Foel, Montgomeryshire. On leaving Llanfair Caereinion County School in 1941, he went to work with the Midland Bank (now known as HSBC). A year later, he enlisted in the Royal Navy where he served as a radio operator; he was among a small group of men landed in Normandy, one day before D-Day, to report
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk Gwrtheyrn who had invited them to become his hired soldiers to fight against the Picts and the Scots. They turned against him who had hired them and despoiled the island. They were defeated at last by Emrys (Ambrosius) in a battle. Thenceforward the Britons were sometimes the victors, but sometimes the mercenaries were victorious, for a period the termination of which is marked in these words - 'usque ad
GWRTHEYRN retorta' see Mommsen, 187, n. 2; from 'gwarth-a-yr-yn-iawn'! According to Nennius (§ 48), Pascent, the son of Gwrtheyrn, received, after the death of his father, two districts, viz. Buellt and Gwrtheyrniawn, by the gift of Emrys who was a (great) king 'amongst' all the kings of the Britons (or 'over them'; the texts vary). The story of Gwrtheyrn as given in the Historia is a mixture of two tales that
HOOSON, JOHN (1883 - 1969), teacher, scholar the City of Westminster School for over thirty years. However his main interest was in the life and culture of Wales, particularly the social and economic life of Hiraethog and the Vale of Clwyd. He was an authority on the place-names of these areas and on their famous people - such as the Myddleton family, Galch Hill, Denbigh, the Salusbury family, Emrys ap Iwan, Thomas Jones, Thomas Gee of Denbigh
HUGHES, EMRYS DANIEL (1894 - 1969), politician, journalist and author gaol during World War I. Hughes was a regular visitor to Moscow, a close friend of the poet Samuel Marshak, and a constant opponent of the activities of N.A.T.O. Emrys Hughes published a large number of biographies and other works, among them Keir Hardie (1950; new ed. 1957), a volume which gave him particular pleasure, Winston Churchill in war and peace (1950) and Winston Churchill: the British

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