ELLIS
,
ROBERT
(
1817
-
1893
),
musician
;
b. at
Rhuddlan, Flints.
When he was 17 years of age he went to
Manchester
, where afterwards he laboured to
raise the standard of congregational singing
among the
Calvinistic Methodists
. He composed in
1855
the hymn-tune ‘
Revel
,’ 8.7.3, which appeared in
Llyfr Tonau Cynulleidfaol
,
1859
; a hymn-tune named ‘
Eliza
’ composed by him had been published in
1846
in
Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol
. He d.
27 July 1893
and was buried at
Manchester
.
Bibliography:
-
Geiriadur Bywgraffiadol, yn cynnwys
Byr-hanes y Cymry mwyaf adnabyddus fuont yn preswylio yn
Manceinion
. [1896.]
.
Author:
Robert David Griffith, M.A., (1877-1958), Old Colwyn
