ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas Peter ELLIS (1873 - 1936) was a judge in the Indian Province of Punjab during the days of the empire. He was born in Wrexham, the son of Peter Ellis and Mary Lewis. His father died when T.P. was a young boy after which he moved to Glyndyfrdwy to live with his mother's family.
He was educated in Oswestry High school and Lincoln Collage Oxford. After leaving collage he went to work in the Indian civil service. He became a regional and sessional judge in the Punjab, and during the first World war he acted as the regional government's attorney general.
He married twice, his first wife, Rosetta McAlister died in 1912. In 1915 he married his second wife Hilda Broadway. He had two children.
In 1921 he returned to Wales, making a home at Llysymynach, Dolgellau. He took a keen interest in Welsh antiquities publishing a number of books about Welsh history. Amongst his other publications are Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages, The First extent of Bromfield and Yale, The Tragedy of Cymmer, The Catholic Martyrs of Wales (T. P. Ellis was a keen member of the Catholic Church) The Welsh Benedictines of the Terror.
He died on July 7th 1936 and is buried in Dolgellau Municipal cemetery.
Alwyn ap Huw, April 2001
|
|
|
|
|
|