Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, GEORGE EWART (1909 - 1988), writer and oral historian Born 1 April 1909 in Abercynon, third son of William Evans (died 1942) of Pentyrch, shopkeeper, and first son of his second wife Janet, née Hitchings, of Llangynwyd. He came of a radical family and was named after William Ewart Gladstone; his own radicalism, fired by the suffering of the Welsh miners during the inter-war depression, took him further to the left and into the Communist Party. He
EVANS, GEORGE EYRE (1857 - 1939), Unitarian minister and antiquary Son of David Lewis Evans. Born 8 September 1857 at Colyton, Devon. He was educated at a school kept by William Thomas (Gwilym Marles, 1834 - 1879) and at a school in Liverpool. For some years he was minister of the Church of the Saviour at Whitchurch, Salop, and later devoted many years of his life without pay to the service of the Unitarian chapel at Aberystwyth. But he was, above all, an
EVANS, GEORGE PRICHARD (1820 - 1874), Baptist minister and schoolmaster Born 13 November 1820 at Carmarthen, son of Richard Evans, seaman. He began to preach at Mount Pleasant, Swansea, and ministered to the congregation at Bethel, Strand, Swansea, before he went to Bristol College in October 1842. Early in 1844 he went to Jamaica as a missionary, but after the death of his wife and her baby he returned to Bristol in 1845. From early 1846 until his death, 22 November
EVANS, GRIFFITH (1835 - 1935), microscopist, bacteriologist, and pioneer of protozoon pathology Born 7 August 1835 at Ty-mawr, Towyn, Meironnydd, the third child and only son of Evan Evans (1801 - 1882) by Mary (1809 - 1877), daughter of William Jones of Tyddyn y Berllan, Towyn. His father claimed descent from Merioneth families which have a distinguished record in Welsh history, numbering among his ancestors Lewis Owen, slain 1555 and Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, antiquary. Griffith Evans
EVANS, Sir GRIFFITH HUMPHREY PUGH (1840 - 1902), barrister Born 13 January 1840, son of John Evans, J.P., Loves-grove, Llanbadarn-fawr, Cardiganshire. He was a cousin of Griffith Evans. He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford (matriculated 1858, scholar, B.A. 1862 with a first in classical moderations, M.A. 1872), and was admitted barrister-at-law (Lincoln's Inn) in 1867. He married, 1873, Emilia Savi, daughter of James Hills, of Neechindepore, Bengal
EVANS, GRIFFITH IFOR (1889 - 1966), surgeon and pioneer of the Christian Faith Healing Movement in Wales Born 14 February 1889, the son of G.T. Evans, a bank manager, Bryn Estyn, Rhyl, Flint, and his wife. He was educated at Ruthin School and Oxford, where he read history and economics at Lincoln College and then moved to Magdalen College to prepare for clinical medicine studies at St. George's Hospital, London. He had a very distinguished student career and was awarded a number of the chief prizes
EVANS, GRUFFYDD (1866 - 1930), cleric and antiquary
EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME MYRDDIN - see MYRDDIN-EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician Gwynfor Evans was born on 1 September 1912 at Y Goedwig, 24 Somerset Road, Barry, the eldest of the three children of Daniel James ('Dan') Evans (1883-1972), an industrious and highly successful shopkeeper, and Catherine Mary (née Richard) (1879-1969), herself a shopkeeper from a chapel-going London Welsh background, originally from Cydweli. Gwynfor Evans was above all the product of Welsh
EVANS, HAROLD MEURIG (1911 - 2010), teacher, lexicographer Cymraeg Cynnar” (The Language and Style of Early Welsh Free Metre Poetry). He was awarded an honorary M.Ed. degree by the University of Wales in 1988 and received the OBE in 1995. Meurig Evans made a very important contribution to Wales and the Welsh language by publishing a series of dictionaries starting with Y Geiriadur Cymraeg Newydd / The New Welsh Dictionary published in 1953 with W. O. Thomas
EVANS, HARRY (1873 - 1914), musician Born 1 May 1873 in Russell Street, Dowlais, Glamorganshire, the son of John and Sarah Evans. His sister taught him the Tonic Sol-fa system. He was only 9 years old when he was appointed organist at Gwernllwyn Congregational chapel, Dowlais, and the church arranged for him to receive music lessons from Edward Laurence, Merthyr Tydfil. In 1887 he was appointed organist of Bethania Congregational
EVANS, HENRY (fl. 1787-1839), Arminian Baptist minister appears in Titus Lewis's list, 1810, printed by David Peter in his Hanes Crefydd yng Nghymru. However, on 5 December 1792 Evans was ordained pastor of Craig-y-fargod General Baptist church (see under Charles Winter), by David Saunders I of Aberduar and Morgan John Rhys (Rippon, Baptist Register, i, 523) - a renewal of contact between that church and the Baptists. Evans signs the minutes of the General

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