EVANS, EDMUND (1791 - 1864), Wesleyan preacher

Born 9 July, 1791 at Aberdeunant, Llandecwyn, Merionethshire. After lengthy consideration he became a member of the Wesleyan society in December 1815, was made an elder in April 1816 and started to preach in February 1818. He soon became a popular and influential preacher and was known as Utgorn Meirion (the clarion of Meirion). He refused an invitation to minister to the old cause of Cilgwyn (1837) choosing to remain a Wesleyan lay preacher. For some periods he was a stipended lay preacher on various circuits, collecting towards clearing the debt on chapels, and a peripatetic evangelist under the aegis of the North Wales regional meeting. He published articles in Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd and edited a volume of sermons, Dwfr y Bywyd (c. 1855). He died 9 October, 1864.

Author

• Reverend Griffith Thomas Roberts, (1887 - 1977)

Sources

• NLW Archives: NLW MS 3505D: Edmund Evans: Dyddlyfr
• Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd, 1870, passim, 1871, passim
• Garfield Hughes, 'Dyddiadur Edmund Evans,' Bathafarn: cylchgrawn hanes yr Eglwys Fethodistaidd yng Nghymru, i, 40-52
• Trwydded Edmund Evans i Bregethu, Bathafarn: cylchgrawn hanes yr Eglwys Fethodistaidd yng Nghymru, iii, 59

Additional Links

• NLW Archives: A. H. Williams Papers 11: Transcript of Journal of John Hughes and Dyddlyfr Edmund Evans
• NLW Archives: NLW ex 3034: Beibl Edmund Evans
• Wikidata: Q20821117

Published date: 2001

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