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EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn Treredyn; 1606? - c. 1660?), cleric and translator , under the title of Madruddyn y Difinyddiaeth Diweddaraf. [It is not certain that Edward Fisher was the author of the Marrow.] ' Siôn Treredyn ' was not certain of his initial mutations, but apart from that the translation is a good one and the translator had a sense of style. He dedicates the book to the gentlemen of Gwent and by so doing he gives us some idea of the state of the Welsh language in
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn y Potiau; 1699? - 1776), translator and poet
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn Ceiriog; 1747 - 1792), bard and orator the Gwyneddigion offered a silver medal for an elegy on Richard Morris in 1780, Siôn Ceiriog wrote a poem in blank verse, described as 'pindaric' (B.M. Add. MS. 14993, 57-8). Although it was Richard Jones, Trefdraeth, who won the medal, the society maintained that Siôn Ceiriog had written the better poem and he was given what was called an 'honorary medal.' Apart from this, little of his work has
EDWART ap RAFF (fl. 1578-1606), poet Son of Raff ap Robert. In a cywydd composed in 1602 when he had grown old he refers to the battle of S. Quentin, 1557, as though he had been actually present. It is stated in NLW MS 5282B that he was a blind poet, but there is no reference to this elsewhere. His poems are mainly in praise of the landowning families of the Vale of Clwyd; they also include elegies on Siôn Tudur, 1602, and Simwnt
ELIS ap SION ap MORYS (fl. 15th century), bard
ELLIS SION SIAMS (fl. 17th century), harpist
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist Born in Aber-erch, Caernarfonshire, his mother being the daughter of John Roberts (Siôn Lleyn, 1749 - 1817; the artist was also related to John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion, 1786 - 1859. He was apprenticed to a carpenter but, as he displayed some talent for painting, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau, Meironnydd, brought him to the notice of Sir Martin Archer Shee, the painter, who gave him
ELLIS, RICHARD (1865 - 1928), librarian and bibliographer . His work on Lhuyd made him a specialist in the history of many other Welshmen who were connected with Oxford. He published (a) Facsimiles of Letters of Oxford Welshmen (Henry Vaughan the Silurist, Sir Leoline Jenkins, Edward Lhuyd, Ellis Wynne, Edward Samuel, Moses Williams), and (b) An Elizabethan Broadside in the Welsh Language, being a Brief granted in 1591 to Sion Salusburi of Gwyddelwern
EUTUN, OWAIN (fl. c. 15th century), bard A cywydd by him to Siôn ap Roesser of Llanfrynach is preserved in Peniarth MS 55 (154), and there are other poems in Cwrtmawr MS 23B (153) and Cardiff MS. 7 (368-9).
teulu EVANS Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog being John Davies (Siôn Dafydd Las), Huw Morys, Evan Williams, John Prichard Prys, and Ellis Rowland, Harlech. The full pedigree table of the Evans and Griffith families contains the names of several clergymen. In this connection note that Mary Anwyl (above), after her husband Evan Griffith died, became the wife of John Griffith, rector of Ffestiniog, and that John Griffith, after her death, married
EVANS, CARADOC (1878 - 1945), author almost everything he wrote thereafter. His work includes five collections of short stories, My People, 1915, Capel Sion, 1916, My Neighbours, 1919, Pilgrims in a Foreign Land, 1942, The Earth Gives All and Takes All, 1946; five novels, of which the best is Nothing to Pay, 1930; a play, Taffy, 1923; and a posthumously published Journal. He also devilled for other writers. His best stories rank with the
EVANS, ELLIS (1786 - 1864), Baptist minister and author were published. His materials were later catalogued by James Spinther James, who also collected his letters, which are now in the Spinther MSS. in the National Library of Wales. His essays on the Apostolic Fathers are at the Baptist College, Bangor. He died 28 March 1864. His nephew Edward Ellis is separately noticed; [another brother, JOHN EVANS (1791 - 1855), known as ' Siôn Pen-rhiw,' was an

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