Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Carne (of the Nash family) and Christopher Turberville of Sker. He was arrested on 2 December 1678 at Sker, after John Arnold had offered £50 reward for his capture, in the nation-wide upheaval that followed the disclosures of Titus Oates. He was imprisoned in Cardiff castle with Father John Lloyd, and the two priests were tried in the Shire Hall on Thursday and Friday, 8 and 9 May 1679, by judge Owen
EVANS, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1904 - 1995), Calvinistic Methodist minister and professor of theology 1969. In addition he wrote a standard commentary on John's Gospel which was published as two volumes in 1956 and 1957. He also contributed a chapter on the theological debates, 'Y Dadleuon Diwinyddol (1763-1814)' to the second volume of Hanes Methodistiaeth Galfinaidd Cymru (1978) and edited a volume on Hanes Henaduriaeth Dyffryn Clwyd (1986). He married Anita Owen, the daughter of John Williams
EVANS, SAMUEL (Gomerydd; 1793 - 1856), editor Liberal journalists of his day. In 1852 he removed to the office of William Owen of Cardiff, where he edited Seren Cymru till it ceased publication at the end of 1852 and Y Bedyddiwr from 8 November 1854 till his death. He was also a Welsh scholar [and in 1830 was elected an honorary member of the London Gwyneddigion ]. In 1839 he published a revised edition of William Richards of Lynn's Welsh
EVANS, STEPHEN (1818 - 1905), Cymmrodor a native of Llanarth, Cardiganshire, according to the Welsh Gazette (but of Llannon, Cardiganshire, says Cymm., 1951). He went to London at an early age, establishing there a successful business as a warehouseman in Old Change. In the fifties of the last century he became closely associated with Sir Hugh Owen in his campaign to further Welsh education, and was an enthusiastic supporter of the
EVANS, THOMAS (1714? - 1779), Independent minister -ardd in Cynllwyd (where Howel Harris stayed on his first visit to Llanuwchllyn, in 1740), married a sister of Thomas Owen of Tal-ardd, and kept a good school there. The chapel at Rhos-y-fedwen (the first in Merioneth) was built in 1745-6. In 1756 or 1757, Evans removed to Denbigh; the records of his period there are very defective, but he was certainly there in 1762 (Jeremy's list of ministers, NLW
EVANS, THOMAS (1844 - 1922), Congregational minister and homely style; he also worked hard for the foreign missions. He died 7 December 1922. His brothers, David Evans (1842 - 1914) and Owen Evans (1829 - 1920) are separately noticed.
EVANS, TITUS (1809 - 1864), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Born at Redcock in the vale of Cerdin, Llandysul, Cardiganshire. His father was a weaver and he was brought up to the same craft. He was a member of Horeb Independent chapel and received his early education at the school kept by Samuel Griffiths of Horeb. When his weaving was finished for the day he used to go to Owen Evans (1808 - 1865) at Burlip (Llandysul) for a lesson. He became parish clerk
EVANS, WILLIAM (d. 1718), Dissenting minister and academy tutor into Welsh by William Evans himself, and published in 1707; there is evidence too, that he wrote a foreword (dated 24 June 1716) to another edition of the same catechism, originally published by Matthew Henry in 1702, and now translated by James Davies (Iaco ap Dewi, 1648 - 1722). Jeremy Owen calls William Evans 'God's gift to his people.' He died probably towards the end of 1718.
EVANS, WILLIAM HUGH (Gwyllt y Mynydd; 1831 - 1909), Wesleyan minister and man of letters 1888 he published a memoir of his brother Cynfaen. He died 28 June 1909. Evans's son, WILLIAM OWEN EVANS (1864 - 1936), also a minister and man of letters, was born at Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, in 1864, and educated at a school at Leeds, at Llanrwst grammar school, and at Didsbury Wesleyan College. He began his ministry in 1887, was president of the Welsh Assembly in 1914, and chairman of
EVANS, WILLIAM OWEN (1864 - 1936), Wesleyan minister - see EVANS, WILLIAM HUGH
FENTON, RICHARD (1747 - 1821), poet and topographical writer him in a letter of 1779 from Richard Morris to Pennant (N. L. W. Jnl., vi, 193) - 'I am endeavouring to make him a good Welshman, … he is deficient that way, but comes on bravely.' In 1776 Fenton had become also a member of the Gwyneddigion Society (Leathart, Origin … of the Gwyneddigion, 62); he was a friend of William Owen Pughe's; in 1795 and 1796 (in the Cambrian Register) he edited George
FISON, ANNA (Morfydd Eryri; 1839 - 1920), linguist, poet and educator

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