Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, RHYS (1835 - 1917), musician Born 24 June 1835 in a farmhouse at Cross Inn (now called Ammanford), Carmarthenshire. He was a tailor by trade. He received his first music lessons from one William Penry. When seventeen he went to Swansea where he joined a music class. He moved to Cwmavon and afterwards to Cardiff; at the latter place he became a member of choirs conducted by Rhys Lewis and a Mr. Righton, which performed works
EVANS, RHYS (1779 - 1876), poet - see EVANS, EDWARD
EVANS, ROBERT (Cybi; 1871 - 1956), poet, writer, and bookseller ) and Gwaith Barddonol Cybi (1912). He was a regular competitor at local as well as provincial and national eisteddfodau, and he won many prizes including both chairs and crowns. His special interest lay in the poets of Eifionydd and he did useful service in publishing their works, particularly in Lloffion yr ardd (1911), the unpublished poetry of Robert ap Gwilym Ddu (Robert Williams, 1766 - 1850
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 Glamorgan triban verses. Other eisteddfodic prizes, and a gold medal, were awarded him. In 1910 he edited (with L. J. Hopkin James) Hen Gwndidau, a collection of old religious poetry; and in 1913 a volume of selections from Iolo Morganwg (in O. M. Edwards's 'Cyfres y Fil'). He kept up a correspondence (now in the Cardiff City Library) with a wide circle of scholars, e.g. Sir John Rhys and Sir Joseph
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1894 - 1965), local government officer and an administrator within the Baptist denomination indication of his radical nonconformist stance in his volume of tribute Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris … The man and his character (1958). He spent the closing years of his life at the home of his daughter and son-in-law at Parson's Lodge, Clunderwen where he died on 9 March 1965. He was buried on 12 March in Tabernacl graveyard. He had just completed his autobiography, Golden strands: Some memories along life's
EVANS, THOMAS (fl. 1596-1633), poet and transcriber of manuscripts He is known as Thomas Evans of Hendreforfudd, a township in the old parish of Corwen, but now lying in the ecclesiastical parish of Llansantffraid Glyn Dyfrdwy. He was the son of Evan ap John ap Robert ap Madoc ap Jenkin ap Griffith ap Bleddyn and Lowri, daughter of Griffith ab Evan ap David Ddu ap Tudur ab Evan ap Llewelyn ap Griffith ap Meredith ap Llewelyn ap Ynyr. The place and time of his
EVANS, WILLIAM (d. 1718), Dissenting minister and academy tutor The date of his birth is unknown, but he called himself a disciple of the 'revered Gamaliel' Rhys Prydderch of Ystrad Wallter, whose Gemau Doethineb he seems to have brought through the press in 1714 (there were several editions, one as late as 1937). He was ordained as an Independent in 1688, for pastoral work at Pencader, where the money sustenance was thin indeed, but helped out by his wife's
EVANS, WILLIAM (d. 1589/90), well-born cleric cathedral. Yet there was another, and an interesting, side to his character; he was a patron of poets. Dafydd Benwyn styles him the ' Ifor Hael ' of Llandaff, comparing him thus with the medieval Maecenas of that name; he tells us too that Evans kept a ' household poet,' Maredudd ap Rhoser. And the poet Sils ap Siôn has left a collection of poems in praise of the chancellor, by as many as eight bards; he
EVANS, WILLIAM EILIR (Eilir; 1852 - 1910), cleric, poet, and journalist health), he passed the rest of his days as curate at Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan. In 1910 he published a selection of his poems and articles, Rhyddiaith a Chân. He died 7 December 1910. In Eilir's early days there existed at Newcastle Emlyn a circle of poets which included among its members Myfyr Emlyn (Benjamin Thomas, 1836 - 1893), Rhys Dyfed (Rees Arthur Rees), and others. Under their
EVANS, WILLIAM GARETH (1941 - 2000), historian and university lecturer in education sons. Their Aberystwyth home was at 'Berwyn', 37 Cefn Esgair, Llanbadarn Fawr. The younger son Rhys Evans is the author of the highly acclaimed biography Gwynfor: Rhag Pob Brad published by Gwasg y Lolfa in 2005. Gareth Evans died at his home on 28 March 2000, after a long and brave battle against cancer.
EVANS, WILLIAM JOHN (1866 - 1947), musician Born 29 November 1866, at Aberdare, Glamorganshire. He was apprenticed to his father, Rhys Evans and worked with him in his tailoring business. He was given every encouragement at home to cultivate and develop his musical talent and he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the pursuit of music. After his appointment as organist of Siloa Chapel, Aberdare, he was called upon to give organ recitals in

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