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EDWARDS, THOMAS (1649 - 1700) Rhual,, Puritan controversialist Born at Rhual 9 October 1649, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Edwards. On 2 August 1672 he married Jane, fifth daughter of Robert Davies, Gwysaney; they had no issue. Thomas Edwards was a member of the Dissenting church at Wrexham, and in the controversy about the views of Daniel Williams he supported the Independents and High Calvinism. His chief contribution to the controversy was the book, The
EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837 - 1900), Calvinistic Methodist minister, exegete and preacher First principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1872-91) and second principal of Bala College (1891-1900). Born 22 September 1837, in the year in which his father, Lewis Edwards, opened his academy at Bala. His first teachers were John Williams of Llandrillo and Evan Peters. He then went to Bala College (1852) (London matriculation 1852, B.A. 1861, M.A. 1862), and [after
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1773 - 1853), hymnwriter A nephew and bardic disciple of Robert Williams (1744 - 1815). Little is known of his life, except that he was a weaver, married a daughter of John Evans of Bala (1723 - 1817), and was living with his father-in-law at the time of the latter's death. He was not a preacher, but became in later life an elder in the Calvinistic Methodist church at Bala. He was a warm supporter of Sunday schools, and
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Callestr, Wil Ysgeifiog; 1790 - 1855), poet . Talhaiarn (John Jones, 1810 - 1869) and Caledfryn (William Williams, 1801 - 1869) had a monument placed on his grave at Ysgeifiog, Flintshire. The precise days of his birth and death have not been ascertained.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School foundation stone was laid for a new state-of-the-art Institute of Physiology on Newport Road, funded by the great Welsh coalowner and philanthropist, Sir William James Thomas. In 1845 William Edwards married Mary Elizabeth Paine, who died in 1892. In the following year, at the age of 72, he married Edith Evangeline Batchelor, one of the daughters of his old friend John Batchelor. She would outlive him by
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
teulu EDWIN Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, apart from mentioning the second daughter Mary, who in 1703 married Robert Jones of Fonmon (see under Philip Jones, 1618? - 1674), the present notice will deal only with the direct Llanfihangel line. The eldest son, SAMUEL EDWIN, christened 12 December 1671, died at Llanfihangel 27 September 1722, married Lady Catherine Montagu, daughter of the 2nd earl of Manchester, and had three children. Of these
EINION ap COLLWYN (fl. 1100?), prince and warrior . The traditions about Einion, about the gentle families of the Glamorgan uplands who claimed descent from him, and about his connections with the literary history of Glamorgan, will be found conveniently recounted in G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 1948, indexed.
EL KAREY, YOUHANNAH (1843/4 - 1907), missionary Karey married Alice Mary Maud Roper (b. 1853), a schoolteacher and daughter of the formerly enslaved freedom fighter Moses Roper (1815-1892), who had escaped from North Carolina to Britain in 1835 and lived and worked in Wales for a time. It may be that Roper, who is recorded as a 'Baptist Missionary' on the marriage certificate, was acquainted with El Karey during his earlier visits to Wales and
ELDRIDGE, MILDRED ELSIE (1909 - 1991), artist Mildred Eldridge was born at 35 Dunmore Road, Wimbledon, London, on 1 August 1909, the daughter of Frederick Charles Eldridge (1874-1960), a jeweller, and his wife Mildred Mary (née Chevalier, 1871-1961). Her one brother, Frederick (1906-1980), had a career in insurance. In 1925 the family moved to 3 Bridge Street, Leatherhead, where they lived in accommodation over her father's jewellery shop
ELIAS, JOHN (1774 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and famous preacher wife died 2 April 1828. On 10 February 1830 in Saint David's Welsh church, Liverpool he married the widow of Sir John Bulkeley of Presaddfed, Bodedern; her maiden name was Ann Williams, of Aberffraw, and she was of humble antecedents. After this marriage he moved to Fron, Llangefni, where he died 8 June 1841; he was buried 15 June at Llanfaes, near Beaumaris. As a preacher, he was undoubtedly the
ELIAS, THOMAS (Bardd Coch; 1792 - 1855), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymn-writer Born in November 1792 at Bryn-teg, Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire, the son of David Elias and Mary his wife, he was apprenticed at 10 to a tailor at Llanwrtyd. At 14 he went to Merthyr Tydfil, but returned in a few years, married, and in 1822 began preaching - he was ordained in 1831. His latter years were spent at Senny-bridge (Brecknock), where he died 14 March 1855, aged 62. A cywydd by him

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