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ELLIS, MARY ELIZABETH (Mrs Mary Gwilym Davies) (1881 - 1974), educationalist and peace campaigner figure in that organisation's committees and conferences and initiated several developments in the 1920s. She was also involved in the attempt to establish a Union of Welsh Women in 1922 with the aim of uniting the women of south and north Wales to promote progressive social policies. In the same year, Reverend Gwilym Davies (1879-1955), director of the WSSS, also took on the directorship of the
ELLIS, ROBERT (Cynddelw; 1812 - 1875), Baptist minister, preacher, poet, antiquary, and commentator reprint of Barddoniaeth Dafydd ap Gwilym. He also compiled Blodau Arfon (the work of Dewi Wyn) and edited Geiriadur y Bardd. He delighted in lexicography and produced Geiriadur Cymreig Cymraeg, 1868. His poetry - Barddoniaeth Cynddelw - was published under the editorship of Ioan Arfon by H. Humphreys, Caernarvon, in 1877. He was interested in every kind of antiquarian lore, published Manion Hynafiaethol
ELLIS, WILLIAM (Gwilym ab Elis; 1752 - 1810), hymn-writer and balladist (1735 - 1805) of Bala, and others, was published - 'for a poor man called William Ellis.' A number of his own hymns are to be found in the second part of the book. It is thought that he is the ' Gwilym ab Elis ' who, in 1786, published a hymn-book, Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion, etc., at Trevecka. There are twenty-five hymns in this collection, one of them being very well known. The
EVANS, DAVID (Dewi Dawel; 1814 - 1891), tailor, publican, and poet younger son, WILLIAM CARADAWC EVANS (Gwilym Caradog; 1848 - 1878), left a note-book dated 27 August 1871, containing a number of verses with three chapters of notes on Welsh metres entitled ' Ysgol y Beirdd.' Dewi Dawel died at Cwm-du 20 December 1891, and was buried in the churchyard at Llanfynydd.
EVANS, DAVID GWILYM LLOYD (1933 - 1990), cricketer and cricket umpire
EVANS, EVAN HERBER (1836 - 1896), Independent minister and college principal Congregational Union of England and Wales, 1892. He was first, last, and above all, a preacher, and was in greater demand as a lecturer and preacher than anybody else in his generation. As a lecturer, he was in the line of Gwilym Hiraethog (William Rees, 1802 - 1883). His lectures were models of pure oratory, his sermons, of consecrated eloquence. He was appointed one of the joint editors of Y Dysgedydd in
EVANS, GEORGE EYRE (1857 - 1939), Unitarian minister and antiquary Son of David Lewis Evans. Born 8 September 1857 at Colyton, Devon. He was educated at a school kept by William Thomas (Gwilym Marles, 1834 - 1879) and at a school in Liverpool. For some years he was minister of the Church of the Saviour at Whitchurch, Salop, and later devoted many years of his life without pay to the service of the Unitarian chapel at Aberystwyth. But he was, above all, an
EVANS, HARRY (1873 - 1914), musician St. Garmon ' and ' Dafydd ap Gwilym '; he also wrote several anthems and hymn-tunes, and arranged Welsh folk-songs and airs for choirs. A little before he died he had been selected as one of the three music editors of Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol, but he was unable to do any work in connection with that hymnal. His main ambition in life was to found a music college in Wales; had he lived he might have
EVANS, JOHN GWENOGVRYN (1852 - 1930), palaeographer Gwilym Marles at Llandysul and Alcwyn C. Evans at Carmarthen), and entered the Presbyterian College at Carmarthen in 1872, remaining there till 1876 (apart from an interval in 1874-5 as assistant in a school in England). Ordained to the Unitarian ministry in August 1876, he was pastor at Carmarthen (1876-7) and at Preston (1877-80), but early in 1880 loss of voice compelled him to give up the ministry
EVANS, JOHN VICTOR (1895 - 1957), barrister-at-law World War I he went to St. John's College, Oxford, where he read History and took a second-class honours degree in 1922. At Oxford he played a distinguished part in the Union Debating Society, being elected successively Secretary, Junior Librarian and in 1922 President of the Union; he was also President of the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society. After leaving Oxford he was called to the bar in 1924. He was an
EVANS, ROBERT (Cybi; 1871 - 1956), poet, writer, and bookseller ) and Gwaith Barddonol Cybi (1912). He was a regular competitor at local as well as provincial and national eisteddfodau, and he won many prizes including both chairs and crowns. His special interest lay in the poets of Eifionydd and he did useful service in publishing their works, particularly in Lloffion yr ardd (1911), the unpublished poetry of Robert ap Gwilym Ddu (Robert Williams, 1766 - 1850
teulu FITZ WARIN, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston Gwilym corpus (in a set of englynion to Ifor Hael), we might see in the words a reference to this ' Fulk of Glamorgan.' That ' Fulk of Glamorgan ' was Fulk Fitz Warin is clear from the fact that the Cymru Fu anecdote speaks of his combats with Saracens.

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