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ELLIS, ROBERT (1808 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 12 December 1808 at Celyn Isaf, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, son of Ellis Evans and his wife Jane Williams. The father had to decamp to Merthyr Tydfil in consequence of the ' enclosure riots ' at Llanddeiniolen in 1809, but returned to live at Garnedd, a squatter's cottage which he had erected on the common. At 18, Robert Ellis went to work at Cae-braichy-cafn quarry, but when about 20
ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650 - 1731), Welsh-American Quaker Born at Bryn Mawr in the parish of Dolgelley, Meironnydd, 1650, son of Ellis ap Rees. He married twice: (1) c. 1692, Margaret, daughter of Ellis Morris, (2) Margaret, daughter of Robert ab Owen. He joined the Society of Friends c. 1672 and because he was steadfast in his new faith he suffered persecution and imprisonment. After the founding of Pennsylvania on Indigenous land, he sent Thomas Owen
ELLIS, ROWLAND (1841 - 1911) Orkney, bishop Born 24 April 1841, son of Thomas Ellis, surgeon, Caerwys, Flintshire. He was educated at Ruthin grammar school and at Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1863. He became curate of Gresford, 1864, vicar of Gwersyllt, 1868, vicar of Mold, 1872, and was rural dean of Mold, 1873-84. During this period he was a frequent visitor to W. E. Gladstone at Hawarden. From 1884 till his
ELLIS, SAMUEL (1803 - 1852), engineer
ELLIS, THOMAS (1711/12 - 1792), cleric minister, of a rather strict and puritanical type, and a warm supporter of Griffith Jones's schools; there are many letters of his in Welch Piety, including a sharp condemnation of John Evans of Eglwys Cymyn (1702 - 1782); he seems to have acted as a sort of supervisor of the schools in Anglesey, and was one of the half-dozen Welsh clerics appointed by Griffith Jones to receive contributions towards the
ELLIS, THOMAS (1625 - 1673), cleric and antiquary
ELLIS, THOMAS (c. 1819 - 1856), Orientalist . From 1848 to 1850 he is stated to have helped Samuel Bagster in the preparation of his major Hebrew publications, including an Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon and Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon, but it is also known that he travelled in the East during this same period From December 1850 until his death in December 1856 he was employed as a supernumerary at the British Museum, cataloguing Syriac
ELLIS, THOMAS (fl. 1824), poet
ELLIS, THOMAS EDWARD (1859 - 1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5) Son of Thomas Ellis and Elizabeth his wife. He was born at Cynlas, Cefnddwysarn, near Bala, 16 February 1859. He was educated at the British School, Llandderfel, and at the grammar school, Bala, where his contemporaries included D. R. Daniel, O. M. Edwards, and J. Puleston Jones. In January 1875 he entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he remained till 1879. In October 1880
ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN SCOTT - gweler SCOTT-ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN
ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author
ELLIS, THOMAS PETER (1873 - 1936), judge (I.C.S.) and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law

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