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ELLIS, JOHN GRIFFITH (1723/4 - 1805), Methodist exhorter , Penmorfa, mentions John Griffith Ellis as having been present. He was a man of undoubted ability and is so described by men who knew him, such as Robert Jones of Rhos-lan. His lapse was at the time a most serious blow to Methodism in North Wales. He died in 1805 (buried at Nefyn, 19 September).
ELLIS, MORGAN ALBERT (1832 - 1901), Welsh-American preacher and editor Born 19 September 1832, at Melin-y-coed, near Machynlleth. Although his parents were in humble circumstances, he received help which enabled him to be well educated. He was master of a national school which was under the patronage of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, bart., Nannau, Meironnydd, and afterwards became the first headmaster of the British school at Nant Peris, Caernarfonshire. In 1853 he
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, ROBERT (1817 - 1893), musician
ELLIS, ROBERT (Cynddelw; 1812 - 1875), Baptist minister, preacher, poet, antiquary, and commentator
ELLIS, ROBERT (Llyfnwy; 1805 - 1872), parish clerk (1829-72) and poet
ELLIS, ROBERT - gweler ELLICE, ROBERT
ELLIS, ROBERT MORTON STANLEY (1898 - 1966), minister (Presb.), and author
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, SAMUEL (1803 - 1852), engineer dissolved in 1838 and Ellis purchased a large iron-foundry - the Irwell works, Salford. In June 1843 he obtained a patent for improved railway turntables and weighing machines. He was thus brought to the notice of Robert Stephenson who introduced him to the capitalist Kennard. In 1847 he perfected an invention for better adapting travelling cranes for general use on railways. In 1848 he bought the Palace
ELLIS, THOMAS (1625 - 1673), cleric and antiquary later, was made Fellow of Jesus College in 1649, appointed censor also, and was in the forefront of the persistent attacks made on the pseudo-Puritan principal, Michael Roberts (died 1679). At the Restoration he retained his Fellowship and became vice-principal under the restored principal, Francis Mansell. He was sadly disappointed at not being made principal on Mansell's retirement in 1661 and
ELLIS-GRIFFITH, Sir ELLIS (JONES) (1860 - 1926), barrister and M.P. 1924, and his parliamentary career came to an end. He died very suddenly, 30 November 1926, while attending the assizes at Swansea, and was buried in Llanidan churchyard, Brynsiencyn. He married in 1892 Mary, daughter of Robert Owen, Ty Draw, Mold. There were two sons and one daughter of this marriage, of whom only one son, Ellis Arundel, who succeeded to the title, survived him. Sir Arundel died in

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