Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1813 - 1902), Unitarian minister and tutor (1840-2), thereafter returning to assist John Edward Jones (1801 - 1866) of Bridgend in his pastorate and in his school (1843-50). In 1847 he was one of the founders of Yr Ymofynydd, of which he later became editor, 1868-72. In 1850 he accepted a call to the church at Colyton, Devon, and remained there as minister and schoolmaster until 1863. In 1856 he married Ophelia, daughter of captain George Eyre
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer E. Estyn Evans was born 29 May, 1905, opposite Darwin's birthplace in Mount Street, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury. As a teenager, his father, George Owen Evans (1865-1921), had worked in claypits and coalmines around Acrefair near Ruabon, Denbighshire, before entering Bala CM ministrial training college. His mother, Elizabeth (1864–1944), formerly an apprentice milliner in Wrexham, was the eldest of
EVANS, ERNEST (1885 - 1965), county court judge, M.P. Circuit. He served with the R.A.S.C. in France during World War I and was promoted to the rank of Captain. From November 1918 to December 1920, he was a private secretary to David Lloyd George. In 1921, M.L. Vaughan Davies, an out-and-out Tory who sat as the Liberal M.P. for Cardiganshire from 1895, was created a peer, with the title Lord Ystwyth of Tan-y-Bwlch. With Lloyd George's support, Evans fought
EVANS, EVAN (1851 - 1934), eisteddfodwr, and secretary of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion that of David Lloyd George, with whom he early formed a friendship which was to prove lifelong. The two institutions with which the name of Vincent Evans was to be the most closely associated for half a century were the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and the National Eisteddfod Association. The former was born in 1751, went to sleep periodically, and was finally awakened in 1873 by Sir Hugh Owen
EVANS, GEORGE EWART (1909 - 1988), writer and oral historian was one of eleven children in a predominantly Welsh speaking family, all of whom attended Calfaria, the Welsh Baptist chapel which adjoined the family grocer's store in Abercynon, and where William Evans was chapel deacon and superintendent of the Sunday school. George Ewart Evans reconstructs the warm atmosphere of his bustling, crowded boyhood in his semi-autobiographical novel The Voices of the
EVANS, GEORGE EYRE (1857 - 1939), Unitarian minister and antiquary
EVANS, GEORGE PRICHARD (1820 - 1874), Baptist minister and schoolmaster
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician of self-government for Wales, but just as much, particularly influenced by George M. Ll. Davies and Dr Gwenan Jones, in favour of social Christianity and the peace movement. In 1939 he was appointed secretary of Heddychwyr Cymru, the Welsh branch of the Peace Pledge Union, a movement advocating uncompromising pacifism. Gwynfor's aspiration to merge pacifism with Welsh nationalism was realised when
EVANS, HORACE (1st. BARON EVANS of MERTHYR TYDFIL), (1903 - 1963), physician five other hospitals and to the Royal Navy. It was through his influence that the Royal College of Physicians was moved from Trafalgar Square, having attracted the magnanimous financial support of the Wolfson Foundation towards the cost of erecting new buildings at Regent's Park. He served the royal family as physician to Queen Mary in 1946, to King George VI in 1949 and to Queen Elizabeth in 1952
EVANS, JAMES THOMAS (1878 - 1950), principal of the Baptist College, Bangor Born 1 March 1878 at Abercwmboi, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, son of William Evans and his wife Ann Williams. The family moved to Pont-y-gwaith, and it was there that the son began to preach. He spent some time at the Pontypridd Academy before his admission to the college and the university at Bangor in 1900, where he took an honours degree in Hebrew. He won the Dean Edwards prize and the George
EVANS, JOHN (1768 - c. 1812), topographical writer example, was a paraphrase, in 19th century wording, of what George Owen of Henllys had written two centuries before. He died c. 1812, i.e. before the publication in 1815 of vol. xvii of The Beauties of England and Wales.
EVANS, JOHN (c. 1680 - 1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian doctrine. He was a trustee of the regium donum (1723) and headed the Nonconformist deputation to congratulate George II on his accession (1727). He wrote many theological works (listed in D.N.B.), and received the degree of D.D. from Edinburgh University in November 1728, but not from Aberdeen (as in D.N.B.) nor from Glasgow (as in Palmer). He also collected (but did not live to use) materials for a

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