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ELLIS, THOMAS EDWARD (1859 - 1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5) . In 1894 he was appointed chief Liberal whip. He devoted much time to educational administration in Wales, serving on the joint education committee for Merioneth under the 1889 Welsh Intermediate Education Act, the court of the University of Wales, and the Central Welsh Board; he was one of the pioneers of the movement to secure a National Library for Wales, founder and first president of the Old
ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author , Aberystwyth 1941-46. At the beginning of World War II he was appointed honorary secretary of the Committee to Safeguard Welsh Culture, the movement which was to become Undeb Cymru Fydd in 1941. He remained its secretary until 1967. He was High Sheriff of Cardiganshire 1944-45. He was a member of the University of Wales Court, the council of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, the court and council of
ELLIS, THOMAS PETER (1873 - 1936), judge (I.C.S.) and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law critical situation earned him great praise for discretion and sound judgement. Ellis, together with other judicial officers, regarded the subsequent granting of an amnesty to so many prisoners convicted of grave offences as a slur on the proceedings of the martial law commissions, and for this reason, it is understood, he refused the offer of appointment as judge of the high court, Lahore. In 1921 he
ERBERY, WILLIAM (1604 - 1654), Puritan and Independent Newport, Monmouth, was preferred to the living of St. Mary and St. John, Cardiff. He remained there from 7 August 1633 until July 1638 (Foster's Index, N.L.W.). Together with Walter Cradoc he came into conflict with the bishop of Llandaff in 1634 on account of his Puritan activities. On 20 October 1635 Erbery and William Wroth appeared before the Court of High Commission to answer for their Puritanism
EVANS, BENJAMIN (1740 - 1821), Independent minister persecution his denomination increased its hold on North Wales and he secured a High Court judgement compelling the justices to register a house for the purpose of worship at Cutiau in the parish of Llanaber (Barmouth). In 1777 he moved to Albany church, Haverfordwest, and two years later to Tre-wen, near Newcastle Emlyn. He became a prominent leader in South Wales. For years he was an exponent of the
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor renamed itself the Welsh National Theatre Company and the Board or Court of Governors of Clifford Evans's proposed National Theatre found themselves powerless to object. By the end of the sixties, his dream of a National Theatre for Wales was in tatters. He continued to work in television until 1978. Between 1965 and 1969 he became a household name as Caswell Bligh in The Power Game. He appeared in
EVANS, DAVID THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Baron Evans of Claughton), (1928 - 1992), solicitor and politician -president 1979-86 and president 1986-87. Besides his political and professional work, Evans was active in a number of voluntary positions in Merseyside: a governor of Birkenhead School 1974-78 and from 1988; a member of the court of Liverpool University 1977-83; chairman of the Birkenhead Council of Voluntary Service 1964-73; of the Abbeyfield Society, Birkenhead, 1970-74; and, of the Liverpool Luncheon
EVANS, ELLEN (1891 - 1953), principal of the Glamorgan Training College, Barry . She published Y Mabinogion i'r plant in 4 vols. (1924); Hwiangerddi Rhiannon (1926); and Y Wen Fro (1931), a volume on historical places in Glamorganshire, to meet the need for Welsh-language texts for children. Ellen Evans was a member of several public bodies. She was the only woman on the Departmental Committee on Education, 1925-27, and the first woman to be elected to the court of the Medical
EVANS, ERNEST (1885 - 1965), county court judge, M.P. lost the seat to Rhys Hopkin Morris in a three-cornered fight, with Lord Lisburne as the Conservative candidate. In 1924, he won the University of Wales seat in a contest against George M.Ll. Davies, the Labour candidate, and he held this seat until 1942. Evans was made a K.C. in 1937 and from 1942 until his retirement in 1957 he held the post of a county court judge. He was a member of the council
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician his membership of the University of Wales Court, where he called for the establishment of a Welsh-medium College, and of the BBC's Consultative Committee. In 1954 the high respect in which he was held among the younger generation of nonconformist Wales found expression when he was elected as chair of the Congregational Union (121,000 members it was claimed), when he was given the platform for an
EVANS, HOWELL THOMAS (1877 - 1950), historian and schoolmaster time (1931); Long long ago (1932); The Age of Expansion (1933). In 1940 he was President of the Welsh Secondary Schools Association, and for a period he was one of the representatives of the Headmasters of Secondary Schools upon the University of Wales Court. Howell Evans was a man of wide interests, and refused to be confined within the limits of a teacher's professional life, considerable though
EVANS, JOHN GWENOGVRYN (1852 - 1930), palaeographer indispensable. His work as inspector further enabled him to take a leading part in the negotiations which led to the purchase (1905) by Sir John Williams of the Peniarth manuscripts, and so to determine the location of the National Library of Wales, of whose court and council he became member as a nominee of the Privy Council; he was also a J.P. (Cardiganshire) and a member of the court and council of the

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