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ELLIS, THOMAS EDWARD (1859 - 1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5) the family of John Cory, S. Mellons, he became private secretary to (Sir) John Tomlinson Brunner, industrialist and Liberal M.P. for Northwich, and also engaged in intermittent journalism. In July 1886 he was adopted Liberal candidate for Merioneth and elected to Parliament. His unsparing advocacy of Welsh interests marked him out as a leader in Welsh life, and he had a considerable share in
ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author car, he began writing travel essays, at first in Y Ford Gron, and then as books: Crwydro Ceredigion (1952), Crwydro Meirionnydd (1954), Crwydro Maldwyn (1957), Crwydro Mynwy (1958), Crwydro sir y Fflint (1959), Crwydro Llundain (1971), and Dilyn Llwybrau (1967). He was a regular broadcaster in Welsh and English and was a member of the Welsh team of Round Britain Quiz (B.B.C.) for 20 years. He wrote
ELLIS, THOMAS PETER (1873 - 1936), judge (I.C.S.) and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law Born at Wrexham, 4 June 1873, son of Peter Ellis and Mary (Lewis). His father died when he was very young, and he spent his early youth with his mother and her family on a farm near Glyndyfrdwy. He was educated at Oswestry high school and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he became an admirer of (Sir) Owen M. Edwards. He went to India and soon earned distinction: he came to be considered one of
ELLIS-GRIFFITH, Sir ELLIS (JONES) (1860 - 1926), barrister and M.P. was defeated by Sir Owen Thomas, the Labour candidate. In 1912 he was elected chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Party in succession to Sir Alfred Thomas, who had been elevated to the House of Lords as lord Pontypridd. In the same year he was appointed parliamentary secretary to the Home Office and took a prominent part in steering the Welsh Disestablishment Bill through the House of Commons. He
ELWYN-EDWARDS, DILYS (1918 - 2012), composer Turle Scholarship at Girton College, Cambridge and a Joseph Parry Scholarship at the University College in Cardiff, and chose the latter, studying under David Evans. Her compositional gifts were developed during her time at Cardiff and some of her songs were broadcast by the BBC. After taking her B.Mus. she taught for three years at Dr Williams School before gaining an open scholarship in composition
EMERY, FRANK VIVIAN (1930 - 1987), historical geographer and the 1695 Britannia', Antiquity 32: 179-82 1958b 'English regional studies from Aubrey to Defoe', Geography Journal 124: 3 15-25 1958c 'Irish geography in the seventeenth century', Irish Geog. 3: 263-76 1958d 'The geography of Robert Gordon, 1580-1661, and Sir Robert Sibbald, 1641-1722', Scott. Geogr. Mag. 74:3-12 1958e 'A new reply to Lhuyd's Parochial queries (1696): Puncheston, Pembrokeshire
ENDERBIE, PERCY (c. 1606 - 1670), historian and antiquary used by David Williams in his The History of Monmouthshire, 1796, and Sir Joseph A. Bradney states in A History of Monmouthshire that the ' Pistyll MSS ' were probably the work of Enderbie. It is claimed that the pedigrees in NLW MS 1472D are copied from an earlier manuscript by him. Cambria Triumphans was reprinted in 1810. In Bliss's edition of Anthony Wood (iii, 994), Enderbie is said to have died
EVAN-THOMAS, Sir HUGH (1862 - 1928), admiral
teulu EVANS Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog OAKELEY (1790 - 1835), who, however, died without leaving an heir and was succeeded by a kinsman, WILLIAM EDWARD OAKELEY (1828 - 1912), of the family of Sir Charles Oakeley, bart., governor of Madras (see D.N.B.). W. E. Oakeley was very closely connected with the Blaenau Ffestiniog slate quarry industry. Several poems written to members of the Tan-y-bwlch family have been preserved, among the poets
teulu EVANS, printers respect, very different from his father, who had not been trained as a printer. There was some measure of competition between John Evans and his neighbour John Daniel. Both printed Bibles - John Evans, e.g., being responsible for printing four editions of the 'Peter Williams' Bible.' In 1825 on the death of Joseph Harris (Gomer) John Evans acquired the printing and publishing rights of Seren Gomer. He
EVANS, ALCWYN CARYNI (1828 - 1902), antiquary nephew of Thomas Charles of Bala. They had two daughters, Marian Sophia (born 1872) and Eleonora Imogen (born 1874). Alcwyn Evans died on the 11th March 1902 at his home in Carmarthen. His collections were dispersed after his death. His “beautifully written and carefully indexed volumes of manuscripts” passed into the library of Sir Evan Davies Jones of Pentower, Fishguard and in July 1939 were
EVANS, ALFRED THOMAS (Fred, Menai; 1914 - 1987), Labour politician the Anglo-Libyan Parliamentary Group. He was elected chairman of the Parliamentary Bills Committee in 1975 and chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1977. He was a virulent anti-devolutionist. He retired from parliament at the general election of 1979. He married on 13 September 1939 Mary Katharine, the daughter of Joseph and Cecilia O'Marah. She had already predeceased him in 1981, and they

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