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DAVIES, WILLIAM (1820 - 1875), Wesleyan minister Born at Aberystwyth, 16 October 1820. He received a reasonably good elementary education and later taught himself by omnivorous reading. His mother was a Wesleyan and he himself joined the connexion in 1840. He was a paid preacher at Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Anglesey, when he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry in 1843; he was ordained in 1847 at the end of his probationary period. After
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1859 - 1907), musician were raised to send him to the college, and when he had completed his studies he set up as a music teacher at Llangefni, Anglesey, in 1880. In 1884 he was appointed chorister at Bangor. It was while he was at Llangefni that he began to compose songs which achieved considerable popularity. The first was 'Pistyll y Llan,' and this was followed by 'Y Banerwr', 'Yr Ornest,' 'Chwifiwn Faner,' and 'Llwybr
DAVIES, WILLIAM EDWARDS (1851 - 1927), Cymmrodor and eisteddfodwr lived at Beaumaris from 1891 to 1895 as manager of the Anglesey lime works. He took a prominent part in forming the National Eisteddfod Association and in reforming its mechanism; and it was he who signed every annual report from 1882 to 1886 and was responsible for the introductions. He died at his home at Beckenham, Kent, 21 January 1927.
DEINIOL (bu farw 584), saint, founder of Bangor and first bishop in Gwynedd to the place names his clan occupied Anglesey (Llanbabo), Caernarfonshire (Bangor), and the Vale of Clwyd (S. Asaph). This was why Cynfarch and Urien Rheged established themselves there between 550 and 574. The reign of Maelgwn Gwynedd was the golden age of religion in Gwynedd west of the Conway, being the age of Cadfan, Seiriol, Cybi, and others; the genealogies of the saints show that it was in
DOGMAEL (fl. 6th century), saint same parish, S. Dogwell's (near Fish-guard), Mynachlog-ddu, and Meline are all in that county. The only exception is the church of Llanddogwel in Anglesey, formerly a parish in itself, but later attached to Llanfechell. In the 12th century a Benedictine priory was established on the site of Dogmael's chief foundation at Llandudoch. Traces of a S. Dogmael are to be found also in Brittany. Both 14 June
EAMES, MARION GRIFFITH (1921 - 2007), historical novelist Marion Eames was born in Birkenhead, 5 February 1921, the second of three daughters of William Griffith Eames (1885–1959) and his wife Gwladys Mary (née Jones) (1891–1979). Her maternal grandparents had moved to Merseyside from Anglesey and Caernarfonshire, followed as a very young man by her father. Her upbringing was that of a Welsh-speaking family, her parents members of Woodchurch Road chapel
EAMES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), journalist Born in Prestatyn, Flintshire, in 1874, the son of Griffith Eames and his wife Margaret Dowell from Prestatyn. His father was a carpenter who had been apprenticed in Liverpool after working, for a time, on the land in his native Anglesey. He settled in Barrow-in-Furness where he met his future wife as a fellow chorister in the choir conducted by Peter Edwards, 'Pedr Alaw'. Margaret Eames insisted
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd Ednyfed ap Cynwrig (died 1246), claiming descent from Marchudd, was a member of one of a group of kindreds long settled in Rhos and Rhufoniog. As seneschal (in Welsh, distain) of Gwynedd c. 1215-1246 (A History of Wales, ii, 684-5), his political and military services to Llywelyn the Great were rewarded, not only by the grant to Ednyfed himself of bond vills in Anglesey, Nantconwy, Arllechwedd
teulu EDWARDS Cilhendre, Plas Yolyn, 2nd Sir Thomas Myddelton, was one of the civilian envoys deputed by Thomas Mytton to negotiate the surrender of Anglesey (May - June 1646) and Harlech (16 March 1647), becoming governor of Wrexham in 1647. His namesake, who signed the loyal declaration of the Salop gentry in 1642 and was declared a delinquent in 1650, was almost certainly his second cousin of Shrewsbury, sheriff of Salop 1644 and
EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837 - 1884), dean of Bangor Anne Dora Jones, of Treanna, Anglesey - she died at the end of 1875.
ELEANOR DE MONTFORT (c. 1258 - 1282), princess and diplomat against them. Eleanor died in childbirth on 19 June 1282, at the age of twenty-four, and was buried at the Franciscan friary of Llan-faes, Anglesey. Less than a month after her death, on 12 July, members of her household were given safe conduct to return to England. Her daughter, Gwenllian, survived only to be placed in Sempringham priory by Edward after the death of her father on 11 December 1282 and
ELIAS, JOHN (1774 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and famous preacher preacher spread throughout Wales. For a brief period he attended the school kept by Evan Richardson, Caernarvon. On 22 February 1799 he married Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Broadhead, Tre'r Gof, Cemmaes, Anglesey, and went to live in Anglesey, making his home in Llanfechell, near Cemmaes, where his wife kept a shop. He was ordained in 1811 (at the first ordination service of the connexion). His

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