William Ambrose (Emrys)

William Ambrose

William Ambrose (1 August 1813 – 31 October 1873), bardic name Emrys, was a 19th-century Welsh language poet.[1]

Ambrose was born at Bangor, Caernarfonshire (Gwynedd), north Wales, the son of a leading member of the local Baptist community, but was later apprenticed to a draper in Liverpool, and subsequently moved to London.[2] Having gone on a preaching tour led by William Williams (Caledfryn), he decided, instead of setting up in business, to become a minister, and was ordained on 7 December 1837. He remained the minister of the Independent chapel at Portmadoc until his death, aged 60.

"Emrys" edited the periodical Y Dysgedydd from 1853 to 1873, and narrowly missed out on the bardic chair at the Aberffraw Eisteddfod of 1849.

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  1. ↑ Roberts; Thomas Rowland Roberts; Robert Williams (1908). Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen who have attained distinction from the earliest times to the present, Volume 1. New York Public Library: Educational Publishing Co. p. 10.
  2. ↑ Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 13 February 2013