Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, OWEN ELLIS (1920 - 2018), Methodist minister and biblical scholar Owen E. Evans was born on 23 December 1920 in Barmouth, the son of Owen Jones Evans (1887-1926), pharmacist, and his wife Elizabeth Mary (née Jones, 1887-1961), owner of a small hotel. He had one older brother, John William. He spent the first five years of his life in Wimbledon, London, but the family was forced to move back to Barmouth in the summer of 1926 because of his father's illness. He
EVANS, PETER MAELOR (1817 - 1878), publisher became a partner in the firm of Lloyd and Evans (see John Lloyd,, fl 1829-59), publishers and printers, of Mold and Holywell, later of Holywell only, and when John Lloyd retired from the firm on his departure to Liverpool to publish Yr Amserau in 1848, Peter Maelor Evans became the sole proprietor. In 1848 he married M. Kerfoot, third daughter of James Kerfoot of Vaenol Fawr, near Abergele, by whom he
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, RHYS (1835 - 1917), musician succeeded by his son, WILLIAM JOHN EVANS (1866 - 1947), also a skilled musician, who died 27 November 1917 and was buried in Aberdare cemetery. His grandson, IFOR LESLIE EVANS (1897 - 1952), was principal of University College, Aberystwyth, from 1931 till his death.
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, RICHARD THOMAS (1892 - 1962), Baptist minister and administrator Fund for the denomination. R.T.E.'s mother was a member of the Wesleyan church, a sister of a minister in that denomination, John Edward Thomas (1875 - 1959). R.T.E. was baptised at a young age in Bethlehem, Trealaw, but it was in Calfaria, Abercynon that he was prepared for the ministry. He received his early education at Trealaw, and thereafter at secondary schools at Porth and Mountain Ash; he was
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, Sir SAMUEL THOMAS (1859 - 1918), politician and judge Born at Skewen, Glamorganshire, May 1859, the only son of John Evans, a local grocer, and Margaret Evans, both natives of Cardiganshire. After attending the Collegiate School at Swansea, he proceeded to Aberystwyth College and took a London degree. Overcoming his parents' wish that he should enter the ministry, he became articled at Neath and qualified as a solicitor in 1883. He served on the
EVANS, GERAINT LLEWELLYN (1922 - 1992), singer Geraint Evans was born on 16 February 1922 in William Street, Cilfynydd, the son of William John Evans (1899-1978), a coalminer, and his wife Charlotte May (née Thomas, 1901-1923). His mother died on the birth of a second child, and Geraint was raised by his mother's parents until he was ten, when his father remarried and moved to Hopkinstown near Pontypridd. He left school at fourteen to work in
EVANS, THOMAS (1625 - 1688), Baptist minister Spinther seems to think, who attended the Aberafan assembly (1654) but Thomas Evans of Dyffryn-ffrwd. In spite of the fact that under Charles II he was thrown into prison at Brecon and grievously persecuted, two of his sons and many of his descendants entered the ministry, among them being Hugh and Caleb Evans of Bristol, John Evans of Islington, etc. [see under Hugh Evans (1712 - 1781) ]. He continued
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

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