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EDWARDS, WILLIAM CAMDEN (1777 - 1855), engraver
EDWARDS, Sir WILLIAM RICE (1862 - 1923), surgeon, director-general, Indian Medical Service
EDWARDS, WILLIAM ROBERT (Glanllafar; 1858 - 1921), Congregational minister, poet, and littérateur
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School William Edwards was born 6 December 1821 at Caerphilly, one of five children of Evan Edwards, a family doctor in Caerphilly, and his wife Caroline Morgan. William was the great-grandson of William Edwards, the celebrated pastor of the historic Groes-wen chapel, Caerphilly and architect, in 1756, of the bridge crossing the river Taff at Pontypridd which had, at that time, the longest single span
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (Gwilym Deudraeth; 1863 - 1940), poet Born 21 November 1863 in a house in a row called 'Hen Walia' in the town of Caernarvon, he was one of the twelve children of William and Jane Edwards, who afterwards lived in Penrhyndeudraeth. He had some little education at the day school there, but used to say that the best education he ever had was the Sunday school. As his father was a sea-captain, and his brothers too were seafaring men, he
EINION ap COLLWYN (fl. 1100?), prince and warrior Lewis Glyn Cothi and Gwilym Tew assert that he was a man of Gwynedd who migrated to Glamorgan in Iestyn's days - and George Owen adds that his father Collwyn was nephew to Angharad daughter of Ednowain ap Bleddyn of Ardudwy and mother of Iestyn. It may be observed that Lloyd's A History of Wales ignores Einion completely (see p. 402, f.n.), and that he had intended to exclude him from the present work
ELEANOR DE MONTFORT (c. 1258 - 1282), princess and diplomat chroniclers Nicholas Trevet and William Rishanger and the Winchester annalist imply the marital alliance was a direct result of the prince's support of Simon de Montfort and the Second Barons' War. When Simon was killed at the battle of Evesham on 4 August 1265, the countess of Leicester negotiated surrender of Dover castle with the Lord Edward and fled to France with Eleanor on 28 October 1265. Whilst in
ELIAS, WILLIAM (1708 - 1787), poet agent to the Wynn family of Glynllifon. He married Ann Williams, 19 January 1730, as is shown by a letter in Wynnstay MS 7, and ten of his children are mentioned in the pedigrees, among them the ' William Elias junior ' whose name is found in Wynnstay MS. 7 and also in the Diddanwch teuluaidd. He moved to Plas-y-glyn, Llanfwrog, Anglesey, in 1774, died there in 1787, and was buried at Llanfwrog 2 July
ELLIOT, Sir GEORGE (1815 - 1893), BARONET, owner and developer of coalmines 23 December 1893, and was buried in Houghton churchyard. They had two sons and four daughters. Sir George Elliot was succeeded to the baronetcy by his second son, Sir George William Elliot, in 1893 (his first son had died in 1874) and he too was a M.P. (C), 1874-95, when he died. The title then passed to his son, Sir George Elliot, the third baronet, and in 1904 to the latter's brother, Sir Charles
teulu ELLIS Bron y Foel, Ystumllyn, Ynyscynhaearn Ellis (died 8 April 1688), groom of the privy chamber to Charles II. Ellis Ellis, whose wife was Mabli, daughter of William Lewis Anwyl, of Parc, Llanfrothen (see the article on that family), was the father of OWEN ELLIS II (will proved 1691), to whom and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Bodwrda, Gruffydd Phylip wrote a cywydd priodas (a marriage poem), was the father of MARGARET ELLIS (died 1712
ELLIS, DAVID (1736 - 1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts service to his contemporaries was to translate the following English works into Welsh : The knowledge and practice of Christianity by Thomas Wilson (London, 1774); A short manual of prayers for common occasions, by James Merrick (London, 1774 and 1805); and The History of the Holy Jesus, by William Smith (Trefriw, 1776). He translated into Welsh a poem by Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), entitled The
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist painting of a group of about a hundred Welsh men of letters for which William Morris (Gwilym Tawe) paid him 100 guineas, and (b) a portrait of Siôn Wyn o Eifion entitled ' The Bard in Bed,' which is reproduced in the 1861 and 1910 editions of Gwaith barddonol Siôn Wyn o Eifion; the original of (b) is in the National Library of Wales. There are in the Library also two of his books with original

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337 - 348 of 1867 for "William Glyn"