Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, OWEN ELLIS (1920 - 2018), Methodist minister and biblical scholar Festschrift was published in his honour, Efrydiau Beiblaidd Bangor 4 (ed. Eryl W. Davies), and his Pantyfedwen lecture of 1970 was published as Saints in Christ Jesus in 1974. He was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011. Owen E. Evans died on 31 October 2018, and was cremated in Bangor Crematorium on 12 November.
EVANS, SAMUEL ISLWYN (1914 - 1999), educationalist Flight Lieutenant in Iceland and Northern Ireland. He met his wife, Mary Ellen Williams (1919-1993), an RAF nurse from Tŷ Croes, Ammanford, in London. They married in 1944, and had three children, Eryl Cydwel (b. 1946), Erfyl Dilwyn (b. 1950), and Wyneira Delyth (b. 1955). Islwyn returned to Sheffield University in 1946 and completed a first class honours in applied science followed by a doctoral
GLYNNE, MARY DILYS (1895 - 1991), plant pathologist sculptor and musician William Davies (Mynorydd) and sister to the singer Mary Davies. Mary attended Bangor County School for Girls, which her mother had played a prominent role in establishing in 1897 and served for a long period as one of its governors. Her father was a councillor on Bangor City Council and registrar of the County Court. Her sister Eryl became a doctor and botanist, and her brother Ioan
JONES, GARETH RICHARD VAUGHAN (1905 - 1935), journalist Gareth Jones was born on 13 August 1905 at Eryl, Romilly Road, Barry, the youngest of three children of Edgar William Jones (1868-1953), a schoolmaster, and his wife Ann Gwenllian (née Jones, 1867-1965). He was first educated at home by his mother, and then attended Barry County School where his father was headmaster. His mother had worked as a tutor to the grandchildren of the industrialist John
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Bangor, the young couple united after the war brought up their two daughters, Eryl born on 13 November 1940 in Old Colwyn where his parents lived by then (the poem 'Y Wers ar y Piano' ['The Piano Lesson'] in Pont y Caniedydd is about her) and Luned born in Cardiff on 7 September 1942. In Bangor the family lived in three houses in turn: Menai Fron, Upper Bangor (1946-49); Pen y Lan, Belmont Road (1949
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) two children, Dylan Eryl and Mari Helga. He was the pastor of the church in Pisga for twelve years before accepting a call in 1956 to be minister of Tabernacl and Horeb churches, Llandudno. Four years later, the churches in Llandudno released him for a year to enable him to take up a Fulbright Scholarship as Ecumenical Research Fellow in New York Union Seminary (1960-61). Toward the end of his year
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator death (2): her sister, Caryl Eryl Hughes on 28 July 1954. He died 13 August 1962 in Menai Bridge and was buried in Llantysilio churchyard, Anglesey.

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