Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME MYRDDIN - see MYRDDIN-EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME
EVANS, HENRY (fl. end of 17th century), poet and translator Hughes's. An original poetical work entitled Ymddiddan rhwng Hen Wr Dall a'r Angau was published in 1764; other editions appeared in 1781 and in 1807. On the title-page of the last edition the author is named as 'Harri Evan William o'r Bedwellty, sir Fynwy.'
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1795), cartographer Ordnance Survey; it was dedicated to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and engraved by Robert Baugh of Llandysilio. Evans prepared an edition on a reduced scale (about three miles to the inch) also engraved by Baugh, but it was not published until 1797, two years after his death. The maps were, for the time, of unusually high merit on account of their pleasing appearance and the amount and accuracy of the details
EVANS, JOHN (1858 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and professor at the Memorial College, Brecon First Letter to the Corinthians, Epistol Cyntaf Paul at y Corinthiaid (1926). He wrote an article on the Independents in the neighbourhood of Painscastle and Hay for The history of Congregationalism in Breconshire and Radnorshire (ed. Joseph Jones; 1912) and he was among the contributors to the Independents ' Llyfr Gwasanaeth (1926). He also contributed to Y Tyst and Y Dysgedydd. He was chairman of
EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath , places them at Elernion in the north of Llanaelhaiarn, Caernarfonshire; John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), in Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon, 74, gives Bryn Bychan, in the south of that parish, as their habitat; J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 257), while locating them at Bryn Bychan, places that house in Nantlle. It seems on the whole better to regard Griffith's 'Nantlle' as a slip, to take Thomas's 'Elernion' as a
EVANS, JOHN (1830 - 1917), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and biographer -gofiant am naw a deugain o weinidogion ymadawedig Sir Aberteifi (1894), Hanes Methodistiaeth De Aberteifi, 1735-1900 (1904), Yr Ail Fyr-Gofiant (1908), and Y Trydydd Byr-Gofiant (1913) - all published at Dolgelley; he also edited Hanes Bywyd y Parch. Thomas Edwards, Cwmystwyth. His wife, Eleanor, was sister of Dan Jenkins of Llan-y-crwys, schoolmaster and poet.
EVANS, JOHN (1628 - 1700), Puritan schoolmaster and divine . The revocation of the Declaration reduced Evans to poverty, which he relieved by selling much of his library and by acting as tutor to the children of gentlemen of rank in the district. Their protection, and especially that of lady Eyton (widow of Sir Kenrick Eyton of Eyton Isaf), saved him from persecution. In 1681 William Lloyd (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph, made strenuous efforts to bring him
EVANS, Sir JOHN (1823 - 1908), archaeologist - see EVANS, LEWIS
EVANS, JOHN CASTELL (1844 - 1909), science teacher own account. By 1871 he was at Harrogate. This narrow life thwarted his ambitions, and in the 1870s, although he was a married man with several children, he decided to go to London to pursue the study of science, and entered the Royal College of Chemistry. By 1877 he was a student-demonstrator at the Royal College of Chemistry; in 1878-9 he was engaged in research work under Sir Edward Frankland
EVANS, JOHN GWENOGVRYN (1852 - 1930), palaeographer - attacks of typhoid fever in early life had undermined his health, which throughout the greater part of his life continued to be precarious; his long residence at Oxford, where he lived for more than twenty years from 1880, was interrupted by a voyage to Australia and a sojourn at Davos. Attendance at (Sir) John Rhys's lectures on the Mabinogion, at Oxford, inspired him to study and transcribe the 'Red
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, JOHN YOUNG (1865 - 1941), minister (Presb.), professor at Trefeca College and afterwards at the Theological College, Aberystwyth of alliteration in articles, letters, and even in examination papers. He was one of a small group of Welshmen, including Sir Joseph Bradney who corresponded with one another in Latin. He had many of his poems in Welsh and in Latin printed for distribution among his friends. He married Ellen, daughter of John Morgan, J.P., of Brecon, and they had a son and two daughters.

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