EVANS, MAURICE (1765 - 1831), Evangelical cleric

Born at Pengelli, Llangwyryfon, Cardiganshire. Educated at Ystrad Meurig under Edward Richard, he was ordained by the bishop of S. Davids, 1787, became curate under Henry Venn at Yelling, Huntingdonshire 1791-6, and afterwards in Eltisley, Cambs., 1796-1810. He was presented to the livings of Tregaron, 20 September 1810, Penbryn, 18 April 1818, Llangeler, 14 February 1820, and Penbryn with Betws Ifan and Bron-gwyn, 30 October 1820. He died 24 December 1831. His evangelical zeal was much admired by many leaders of the Evangelical movement in England in the time of Henry Venn. Thomas Jones of Creaton (1752 - 1845) said of him in a letter to Thomas Charles, March 1794 - 'He is a charming soul, a bundle of sweet dispositions.' He played a leading part in paving the way for getting Bibles for the people of Wales before the Bible Society was formed.

Author

• Reverend Daniel Williams, (1878 - 1968)

Sources

• John Owen, Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Jones late of Creaton, Northamptonshire (1851)
• Josiah Bateman, The life of the Rev. Henry Venn Elliott, M.A., perpetual curate of St. Mary's Brighton, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1868) (5th ed.), 57, 500, 520
• D. E. Jenkins, Life of Thomas Charles (Denbigh 1908), ii, 264-5

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Published date: 1959

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