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ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author Born 19 December 1899 in London, eight months after the death of his father, T.E. Ellis, M.P. His mother was Annie, daughter of R. J. Davies, Cwrt-mawr, Llangeitho, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Aberystwyth grammar school, Orley Farm Preparatory School, Harrow, Westminster School (King's Scholar), University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (open classical scholarship), Jesus College, Oxford
ELLIS, THOMAS PETER (1873 - 1936), judge (I.C.S.) and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law Born at Wrexham, 4 June 1873, son of Peter Ellis and Mary (Lewis). His father died when he was very young, and he spent his early youth with his mother and her family on a farm near Glyndyfrdwy. He was educated at Oswestry high school and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he became an admirer of (Sir) Owen M. Edwards. He went to India and soon earned distinction: he came to be considered one of
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
EMANUEL, HYWEL DAVID (1921 - 1970), librarian and Medieval Latin scholar studies. He also published articles on the Welsh laws and on other topics of medieval interest and made many contributions to the Jnl. of the Nat. Lib. of Wales. His appreciation of A.W. Wade-Evans was read to the Society of Cymmrodorion and published in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1965, 257-71. He married in 1947 Florence Mary Roberts of Burry Port, and they had a son
EMRYS-ROBERTS, EDWARD (1878 - 1924), first professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Welsh National School of Medicine Edward Emrys-Roberts was born 14 May, 1878 in Liverpool, the eldest son of E. S. Roberts of Dawlish, Devon and Mary Evans, youngest daughter of Emrys Evans of Cotton Hall, Denbigh. Educated at Liverpool College between 1890 and 1895 he became a medical student at University College, Liverpool, gaining the MB ChB qualification of what was then Victoria University in 1902. In 1900, while still a
ENOCH, SAMUEL IFOR (1914 - 2001), minister (Presbyterian) and theological professor delivered the Davies Lecture on 'The Jesus of Faith and the Dead Sea Scrolls', and the Pantyfedwen Lecture on 'Jesus in the Twentieth Century' in 1979. Both lectures were published in booklet form. His revision of David Williams's Commentary on Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians appeared in 1966. He was a member of the New Testament and Apocrypha Panel of the New Welsh Bible from its outset in 1964
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
EVAN(S), EDWARD (1716 - 1798), Presbyterian minister and poet , (1) in 1744 to Margaret Thomas of Penderyn (died April 1774), and (2) c. 1776 to Mary Llewelyn of Rhigos (died 1824) - of this marriage there were two sons, Edward (1776? - 1862) and RHYS (1779 - 1867); Rhys was of some literary note and an eisteddfodwr. During his lifetime Edward Evan(s) published (1) a Welsh translation of one of Samuel Bourn's catechisms, 1757; (2) a translation in metre of the
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, ALCWYN CARYNI (1828 - 1902), antiquary wife was Elizabeth Amelia Rees (died 1867), daughter of John Morgan, and widow of an innkeeper who kept the Castle Inn in Priory Street, Carmarthen, and for several years they kept the Castle Inn, and later the Bird in Hand, John Street, Carmarthen. They had no children. He married his second wife Mary (1835-1884) in 1870, she was the daughter of William Thomas, a Llandovery ropemaker who was the
EVANS, ALFRED THOMAS (Fred, Menai; 1914 - 1987), Labour politician the Anglo-Libyan Parliamentary Group. He was elected chairman of the Parliamentary Bills Committee in 1975 and chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1977. He was a virulent anti-devolutionist. He retired from parliament at the general election of 1979. He married on 13 September 1939 Mary Katharine, the daughter of Joseph and Cecilia O'Marah. She had already predeceased him in 1981, and they
EVANS, ANNIE FLORENCE (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary that September, he had a powerful spiritual experience in a meeting in Blaenannerch chaired by Seth Joshua, and Florrie Evans was one of those present who encouraged him. She was invited to be part of Evan Roberts's team of travelling revivalists. When Evan Roberts travelled to Loughor to begin his revival campaign, he wrote to Florrie Evans to ask her to pray. Florrie Evans and Maud Davies, a singer

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