Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician Cymru, and reading The Economics of Welsh Self-Government by D. J. Davies convinced him that a self-governing Wales was feasible. He joined Plaid in the summer of 1934 before embarking on a two-year course at Oxford where his commitment to nationalism was consolidated. When he returned to Wales, to a post as a trainee solicitor in Cardiff, he threw himself into voluntary political activism, in favour
EVANS, HENRY (fl. 1787-1839), Arminian Baptist minister ). Evans's Merthyr church also faded out; its chapel was bought by the Particular Baptists in 1812-13 (D. Jones, Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru, 592 - Jones, who was at the time a printer in the town, had a hand in the purchase). What became of Henry Evans afterwards is not known, but he was alive in 1839 (Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru, 440).
EVANS, HUGH (1712 - 1781), Baptist minister and Academy tutor He was a member of a family prominent in the history of the Baptist denomination in Radnorshire and north Brecknock - his very name, indeed, was given him in memory of the local Baptist 'father', Hugh Evans, d. 1656, though there was no blood-relationship between them. His grandfather was Thomas Evans (1625 - 1688). Thomas Evans's son CALEB EVANS (1676 - 1739) took out a preaching-licence in 1705
EVANS, JOHN (1768 - c. 1812), topographical writer The Beauties of England and Wales, 1810; and (d) ' North Wales ' in vol. xvii of the same series, 1812; he was to have written on South Wales but died after completing a small part of the work. Although full of interesting detail, his works seem to have been based more upon reading than upon observation. His account of coal-mining methods in Pembrokeshire, in his Tour through South Wales, 1804, for
EVANS, JOHN (I. D. Ffraid, Adda Jones; 1814 - 1875), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author
EVANS, LLEWELLYN IOAN (1833 - 1892), Biblical scholar He was born 23 June 1833, at Treuddyn, near Mold (according to Methodistiaeth sir Fflint and Y Goleuad, but at Caerwys according to C. and D. Herald, Y Traethodydd and Geninen, and at Bangor according to Y Celt and Y Cymro). He was the son and grandson on both sides of Calvinistic Methodist ministers. During 1846 he lived at Bangor, and was secretary of the ' Gomeryddion Society.' He studied at
EVANS, OWEN ELLIS (1920 - 2018), Methodist minister and biblical scholar of editing and revising proceeded after this and a revised version of both the Old Testament and the New Testament was published in 2004, including this time inclusive language, and then a revision of the Apocrypha, which was by then under the chairmanship of Professor D. P. Davies, appeared in 2008. After assuming the Margaret and Ann Eilian Owen Fellowship of the National Library of Wales, O. E
EVANS, SAMUEL (Gomerydd; 1793 - 1856), editor Born at Llwyn-y-piod, near St Clears. In 1807 he was apprenticed to the printer John Evans, of Carmarthen. On the death of Joseph Harris (Gomer) in 1825 the office of Seren Gomer was removed to Carmarthen and in 1827 Samuel Evans was appointed associate-editor with D. D. Evans, becoming sole editor in 1835. He remained in this post till 1850, when he was acknowledged to be one of the foremost
EVANS, THOMAS (Telynog; 1840 - 1865), poet 'Blodeuyn bach wyf fi mewn gardd' and 'Yr Haf.' The latter is included in Blodeugerdd by W. J. Gruffydd. A collected edition of his work arranged by his friend Dafydd Morganwg (D. W. Jones) with a biographical sketch by Hywel Williams was published in 1866. He died 29 April 1865 and was buried in the Aberdare cemetery.
EVANS, THOMAS (1897 - 1963), alderman, education and hospital administrator the marriage. One son, Rhys, a law student at Aberystwyth, a fighter pilot in the R.A.F. was killed on D-Day 1944. He died 14 January 1963.
EVANS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (Cadrawd; 1846 - 1918), antiquary and folk-lorist . Mrs. Mary Pendrill Llewelyn, the vicar's wife, encouraged the boy to browse in the vicarage library, and her championship of the traditional story of the ' Maid of Cefn Ydfa ' was implicitly accepted by her protégé in all his writings; even in 1894 he defended the tradition against the criticisms of Dafydd Morgannwg (D. W. Jones). He became a blacksmith; though in his early years he twice went to
EVANS, TIMOTHY EDGAR (1912 - 2007), opera singer Edgar Evans was born at Cwrt Farm near Cwrtnewydd, Ceredigion, on 9 June 1912, the youngest of 13 children of William Evans (d. 1927) and his wife Margaret (d. 1947). He received elementary education at the local school where the headmaster was the poet and local historian David Rees Davies, 'Cledlyn'. In 1921 he heard the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso on the radio, and was sufficiently enchanted

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