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ELLIS, JOHN GRIFFITH (1723/4 - 1805), Methodist exhorter Christened 2 February 1723/4 at Tudweiliog, Caernarfonshire, converted in 1741 by Howel Harris at Towyn, Tudweiliog, when a servant with William Griffith, Cefn Amwlch. He represented the societies of south Caernarvonshire at an Association at Lampeter, February 1748, when he was persuaded, after opposing, to continue communicating in the Established Church, and was appointed superintendent of the
EVAN(S), LEWIS (1720 - 1792), one of the earliest Calvinistic Methodist exhorters in North Wales Christened 18 February 1719/20, son of Evan Lewis of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, but removed when very young to Crugnant, Llanllugan, Montgomeryshire, where he became a weaver. On a visit to Trefeglwys, 4 November 1738, he was converted by a sermon of Howel Harris's. He then went to some of Griffith Jones's circulating schools around Llanllugan, and began to exhort as a Methodist. At the
EVANS, EVAN (1882 - 1965), businessman was a member of London County Council 1931-34 and was granted the freedom of the City of London in 1946. Elected an alderman in 1932, he served as secretary of Jewin (Presb.) Church from 1938 until his death, and was moderator of the Association in the South, 1961-62. He contributed towards the cost of publishing the book by Tom Beynon on Howel Harris in London. Under the bardic name 'Ifan Gwynfil
EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Glamorgan. He visited Charles Proger at Wern-ddu, Llantilio Crossenny, and at his trial witnesses came from Llanfihangel Crucorney and Llangattock juxta Caerleon. As ' Captain Evans ' he stayed with Thomas Gunter of Abergavenny and preached in Welsh in his chapel in Cross Street where, it was said, '100's goe to Mass there when not 40 goe to Church'. In Glamorgan he visited Pyle and the houses of Howel
EVANS, THOMAS (1714? - 1779), Independent minister -ardd in Cynllwyd (where Howel Harris stayed on his first visit to Llanuwchllyn, in 1740), married a sister of Thomas Owen of Tal-ardd, and kept a good school there. The chapel at Rhos-y-fedwen (the first in Merioneth) was built in 1745-6. In 1756 or 1757, Evans removed to Denbigh; the records of his period there are very defective, but he was certainly there in 1762 (Jeremy's list of ministers, NLW
FOULKES, THOMAS (1731 - 1802), early Methodist exhorter , daughter of Humphrey Jones, a prosperous Bala draper, perhaps the chief pillar of Methodism there in its early days, and a correspondent of Howel Harris's; she died in 1759. In 1761, Foulkes married Jane, widow of David Jones; her daughter by her first marriage, Sarah, was to become (1783) the wife of Thomas Charles; Jane Foulkes died 1785. His third marriage (1787) was with Lydia, the daughter of Simon
teulu GAMBOLD (died 1755). He, too, was for a while a Methodist; we have a letter of his (T.L., 1256, 28 December 1744) to Howel Harris, and in 1748 he was an exhorter. He continued his brother's school at Haverfordwest. In his turn, he too became a Moravian, and with John Sparks founded the society which was in 1763 to become the Moravian congregation at Haverfordwest - the only one in Wales. On the other hand
GEE, HOWEL (bu farw 1903), journalist - gweler GEE, THOMAS
GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician political, educational, and religious movements of the day. He died at Denbigh, 28 September 1898, and was buried in the new cemetery. He married October 1842, Susannah, daughter of John Hughes of Plas Coch, Llangynhafal; they had six daughters and three sons. He was succeeded in control of Y Faner by his son HOWEL GEE who died in 1903.
GODWIN, JUDITH (bu farw 1746), one of Howel Harris's correspondents Vavasor Griffiths and Lewis Rees; she was also an early and close friend of Howel Harris and of his family - we have nearly forty letters which passed between her and Harris. She was pietistic, and was strongly prejudiced against John and Charles Wesley. She died at Watford, Hertfordshire, 25 January 1746.
GREENLY, EDWARD (1861 - 1951), geologist geological survey of Anglesey. He married Annie Barnard in 1891 (she died 1927) and they worked together on the task until its completion in 1910. The geology of Anglesey, two vols., was published in 1919 and the 1 inch map in 1920. The work was later extended to Arfon. He published (with Howel Williams) Methods of geological surveying (1930) and his autobiography, A hand through time, appeared in 1938. He
teulu GRIFFITH Cefn Amwlch, Penllech, Llŷn Voelas, the celebrated ' Madam Griffith,' whose name occurs in connection with Howel Harris. Their son, JOHN GRIFFITH VI, who inherited the estate on his father's death in 1752, was the last of that name, and the last, also, of the Griffith line. As a young lieutenant he fought in the battle of Minden (1759), and died, unmarried, in December 1794, leaving the Cefn Amwlch estate to his cousin JANE WYNNE

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