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EDWARDS, LEWIS (1809 - 1887), principal of Bala Calvinistic Methodist College, teacher and theologian of Edinburgh conferred on him the degree of D.D. honoris causa. He married, 30 December 1836, Jane Charles granddaughter of Thomas Charles of Bala, and the following year he and his brother-in-law, David Charles III opened a school at Bala, which was promptly adopted as the preparatory school for ministers of the Calvinistic Methodist denomination. It was here that he carried out his great life
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters the University of Wales. He died (still in harness) at Llanuwchllyn, 15 May 1920. His wife, Ellen Davies of Prys Mawr, Llanuwchllyn, had died a year before him. They had two sons, Owen ab Owen (1892-1897) and Ifan ab Owen Edwards (1895-1970), and one daughter, Haf (1898-1965) who married David Hughes Parry.
EDWARDS, RICHARD FOULKES (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd; 1836 - 1870), poet of 1864 for his awdl 'Ioan yn Ynys Patmos,' and at the Aberystwyth eisteddfod of 1865 he won a prize for a critical essay on the genius of Eben Fardd ('Traethawd Beirniadol ar Eben Fardd a'i Athrylith'). In 1869 at the Liverpool eisteddfod he was awarded the chair for his elegy on Henry Rees. He worked for a time as a clerk in a solicitor's office in Ruthin, and later he worked for Thomas Gee
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes eisteddfod held at Corwen in May 1789 the adjudicators failed to agree as to who should be given the prize, and the productions of Twm o'r Nant, Jonathan Hughes, and Gwallter Mechain were submitted for judgement to the Gwyneddigion Society of London, who decided in favour of Gwallter. David Samwel, however, favoured Twm, and sent him a silver writing-pen as a consolation prize. Twm was again unsuccessful
EDWARDS, THOMAS DAVID (1874 - 1930), musician Born 15 July 1874 at Pittson, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., son of David Edwards (Iorwerth Glan Elyrch) and his wife, the parents having emigrated from Rhymney, Monmouthshire Being a delicate child, he received very little early education. Coming over to Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, he worked hard at music and gained the diplomas of L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M., and F.T.S.C. He was organist of Salem, Porth, until
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1719 - 1789), Independent minister, and architect these were single-arched, and less steep than Pontypridd bridge. He did much bridge work in Monmouthshire, and contracted to rebuild Chepstow bridge, but did not do so. So numerous were the demands for Edwards's engineering services, that building and repairing bridges became the occupation of three of his sons - THOMAS, DAVID, and EDWARD. The fourth, WILLIAM, was killed at Gibraltar, a war victim
teulu EDWIN Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, ., 1738, M.P. for Westminster 1742-7, and for Glamorgan from 1747 till his death, 29 June 1756. His wife, Lady Charlotte Edwin (daughter of the 4th duke of Hamilton; she died 5 February 1774), is a figure in early Methodist history, and finds a place in the biographies of Lady Huntingdon and of George Whitefield, and the journals of John Wesley. It was she who presented David Jones (1736 - 1810) to the
EDWIN (bu farw 1073), prince of Tegeingl pedigrees as great-great-grandson of Hywel Dda; his mother was Ethelfleda, daughter of Edwin, king of Mercia. He married Iwerydd, sister of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, and by her had three sons, Owain, Uchdryd, and Hywel. Many North Wales families (particularly in Flintshire and Denbighshire) claimed descent from Edwin, among them those of Mostyn of Mostyn and Mostyn of Talacre. David Powel of Ruabon also claimed
ELIAS, DAVID (1790 - 1856), preacher and schoolmaster published Yr Arfaeth Dragwyddol (Caernarvon, 1847). David Elias died 29 May 1856, and was buried at Pentraeth. John Roose Elias was his son.
ELIAS, JOHN (1774 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and famous preacher Christened 6 May 1774 (his date of his birth is not known), his parents being Elias and Jane Jones, Brynllwyn (or Crynllwyn) Bach, Abererch, near Pwllheli. His brother was David Elias (1790 - 1856). He received a religious upbringing from his grandfather, John Elias, and when he began to preach he adopted his grandfather's name. He was admitted exhorter at Christmas 1794 and soon his fame as a
ELIAS, JOHN ROOSE (Y Thesbiad; 1819 - 1881), poet and prose writer Born 9 December 1819 at Bryn-du, Anglesey, son of David Elias, Pentraeth, and Elizabeth Roose, and nephew of John Elias. He received his early education at a school kept by Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn, 1806 - 1889) at Pen-y-garnedd; and afterwards R. Hughes of Gaerwen was his tutor. Later he entered Tattenhall school. His parents had intended that he should assist them in the family business at
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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