Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, JOHN (1796 - 1861), schoolmaster , where the youth of the neighbourhood received a practical education for over forty years. Among his pupils were Lewis Edwards, Henry Richard, David Charles Davies and Ieuan Gwyllt (John Roberts). When Lewis Edwards kept a school in Aberystwyth he did not consider it to be in competition with but, rather, preparatory to Evans ' school. The school had a good name for the teaching of navigation. Evans
EVANS, JOHN (Y Bardd Cocos; 1827? - 1888), eccentric and poetaster guise he would turn up punctually at national eisteddfod meetings. They also conducted a fabricated correspondence between him and queen Victoria, to whom he proposed marriage. His 'poems' have probably been augmented by tradition. Benefactors would get them printed in leaflet form and the bard would hawk them around the fairs. A selection, with a good introduction by Thomas Roberts (Alaw Ceris), was
EVANS, JOHN CASTELL (1844 - 1909), science teacher Born 20 July 1844 at Castell-y-Waun, Tregastell, Llanuwchllyn, son of John and Catherine Evans. He was for a time pupil of the Rev. Thomas Roberts (Scorpion), in the school he kept at the Old Chapel, Llanuwchllyn, and is said to have attended the Bala grammar school for a period. As a boy he was particularly intelligent and alert, especially in mathematics. He took a great interest in the
EVANS, JOHN EMRYS (1853 - 1931), South African banker Born at Bron-y-berllan, Denbighshire, 1853, son of Emrys Evans, Calvinistic Methodist minister. He became a bank official and went to South Africa in 1882. During the South African war he was financial adviser to the commander-in-chief (lord Roberts); in August 1900 he was made controller of Transvaal treasury and later auditor-general of the Transvaal. He was a director of Barclay's Bank
EVANS, JOHN HUGH (Cynfaen; 1833 - 1886), Wesleyan Minister - 1891) in the bookroom. Thereafter he worked in Birkenhead (Liverpool circuit) (1863), London (1866), Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (1869), Rhyl (1872), Liverpool (1875), Caernarvon (1878), Dolgelley (1881), Manchester (1882), and Llanrwst (1885). He married Maria, daughter of Issachar Roberts of Liverpool, formerly of Mold (1864). He published essays in Y Geninen on taste and criticism, 1883; the democracy
EVANS, JOHN RHAIADORE (1790? - 1850?), surgeon Born in Glantanat Isaf, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, and educated at Oswestry Grammar School. He was tutored by Hugh Roberts, a surgeon at Llanfyllin and then became Sir Benjamin Brodie's pupil. He became the chief medical officer of Bangor Hospital and subsequently a lecturer in surgery and one of the medical officers of the Middlesex Hospital and the Royal Metropolitan Infirmary. He was the author
EVANS, LEWIS (c. 1700 - 1756), cartographer , but he died 12 June 1756 before completing the task; he was at the time in custody in New York on a charge of libel against the governor Robert Hunter Morris. His map was used unacknowledged many times between 1755 and 1814 by London map publishers. In 1776 it was published in America by Thomas Pownall with his Topographical Description of North America to aid Evans' family which was in straightened
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer Phyllis was a constant supporter of her busy husband for nearly 67 years. Shortly after meeting Phyllis, Merêd was appointed as a philosophy and politics tutor at Harlech College and remained there until 1950 when he joined Hughes and Son's editorial staff in Oswestry and began contributing to Y Cymro. It was there that he began a lifelong friendship with the influential editor John Roberts Williams
EVANS, MORRIS EDDIE (1890 - 1984), composer composer John Henry Roberts ('Pencerdd Gwynedd'). He acted as organist of Edge Lane chapel in Liverpool for 36 years and conducted the Gwalia Mixed Choir and the ATM Male Voice Choir. He spent his working life as a driver and salesman for Hughes Brothers of Aintree, meat purveyors. He lived in several different places in the Liverpool and Manchester area and for a short while in Prestatyn. He began
EVANS, ROBERT (fl. c. 1750), poet
EVANS, ROBERT (Cybi; 1871 - 1956), poet, writer, and bookseller Born 27 November 1871 in Elusendy, Llangybi, Caernarfonshire, one of the seven children of Thomas Evans, farmworker, and Mary (née Roberts). He was educated at the council school, Llangybi and after serving for a time on Eifionydd farms he was the local postman there for the greater part of his life. William Hugh Williams, ' Cae'r go ', was his fellow postman. He also sold 'books of every sort
EVANS, ROBERT TROGWY (1824 - 1901), Congregational minister and author States of America. He succeeded Morris Roberts (1799 - 1878) as pastor of a church in Remsen, New York State, and, after eleven years, went (1881) to Oskosh, Wisconsin, to minister to another church. He published Myvyrdodydd Ieuanc, a book on temperance; Y Ddiwioleg (Utica, 1873) - a very long poem; Marwnadau … Robert Everrett … a Morris Roberts (Remsen, c. 1878); Y Bedydd Cristionogol. He was a keen

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