William Ambrose (Emrys)

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

Ambrose was born at a Bangor inn, the Penrhyn Arms,[2] in Caernarfonshire (now in Gwynedd), north Wales.

[4] After school, Ambrose was apprenticed to a draper in Liverpool, where he became a member of the Tabernacle Congregational Church, at which his cousin John became precentor.

[7] Emrys edited the periodical Y Dysgedydd from 1853 to 1873 and narrowly missed the bardic chair at the Aberffraw Eisteddfod of 1849, with his "Awdl ar y greadigaeth".

[8] Ambrose is not regarded as an outstanding poet, but many of his sermons were published[9] and he was a popular preacher.