ELLIS
,
JOHN
(
1674
-
1735
),
cleric and antiquary
;
second son of
Thomas
Ellis
of
Llandegwning
,
Llŷn
, and his wife
Jane
Marsh
, widow of
Herbert
Griffith
,
Brynodol
. He matriculated at
Jesus College
,
Oxford
,
31 March 1690
, at the age of 16, graduated
B.A.
in
1693
,
M.A.
(and a
Fellow
) in
1696
,
S.T.B.
in
1703
, and
S.T.P.
c.
1720
, was ordained a
deacon
7 Sept. 1707
, and a
priest
4 July 1708
, and was presented to the rectorate of
Llandwrog
30 Sept. 1710
and appointed a
canon
of
Bangor cathedral
in the same year. He surrendered the latter office on receiving the prebend of
Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
on
26 March 1713
, and was presented to the rectorate of
Llanbedr-y-cennin
with the vicariate of
Caerhun
on
24 July 1719
. He m.,
13 May 1720
,
Catherine
, daughter of
Richard
Humphreys
,
Hendregwenllian
,
Penrhyndeudraeth
, and step-sister of
bishop
Humphrey
Humphreys
(q.v.)
; they had three children — one,
John
Ellis
,
Ll.B.
, became
vicar of Bangor
and
archdeacon of Merioneth
, but the others d. in infancy. He d. at
Llanbedr
in
July 1735
; the register of that parish records his burial on the
12th day of the month
.
John
Ellis
took a great
interest in antiquities
.
Browne
Willis
acknowledges the valuable assistance which he rendered in the compilation of
A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Bangor
,
1721
.
Bibliography:
-
J. E. Griffith
,
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families
, 1914
, 210;
-
A. Ivor Pryce
,
Diocese of Bangor During Three Centuries,
seventeenth to nineteenth century inclusive being a digest
of the registers of the bishops
, 1929
;
-
Browne Willis
,
A survey of the cathedral church of Bangor;
and the edifices belonging to it …
, 1721
, v, 151, 175;
-
Foster
,
Alumni Oxonienses
;
-
‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27
vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77
.
Author:
Gildas Tibbott M.A., (1900-79), Aberystwyth
