Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), Congregationalist divine College, Aberystwyth, where he graduated (B.A. Lond.) in 1877. In 1878 he was ordained minister of Hawen and Bryngwenith, Cardiganshire, and it was then that he first demonstrated his courage and intellectual independence. Before his time, Wales had not experienced that revolution in religious doctrine which, having its inception in Germany, had slowly made its way to England. Adams was the prophet of
EVANS, BENJAMIN (1740 - 1821), Independent minister higher Calvinism and embraced every opportunity of opposing the Arminianism and Unitarianism of the district, but towards the end of his life his Calvinism became more moderate. It was chiefly through his labours that the churches at Hawen, Glyn-arthen, Penrhiwgaled, Pisgah, and Capel-y-wig were founded, and he had charge of them. In 1788 he published Llythyrau at gyfaill, ar y pwngc o fedydd, which
EVANS, DAVID (1744 - 1821), Baptist minister Born near Aberporth, Cardiganshire, son of David Evans, fisherman. He worked on several farms between 1754 and 1774. He seldom went to a religious service until he began to attend Hawen Congregational chapel in 1767. He refused to join either the Congregationalists or the Calvinistic Methodists but was baptized at Cilfowyr, 1770, when he was chief manservant at Dol-goch, Troed-yr-aur; soon
EVANS, EVAN KERI (1860 - 1941), minister (Congl.) spending a term there he was appointed assistant to Dr. Edward Caird at Glasgow. In 1891 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the university college in Bangor. He was appointed examiner for the degree of M.A. at Glasgow in 1894. His health breaking down in 1896, he was in 1897 ordained minister to the Congregational churches of Hawen and Bryngwenith in Ceredigion. In 1890 he moved to the Priory
EVANS, WILLIAM (Wil Ifan; 1883 - 1968), minister (Congl.), poet and writer in Welsh and English Born 22 April 1883 in Vale View, Cwmbach, Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire, son of Dan Evans, Congregational minister, later of Hawen and Bryngwenith and editor of the Celt for a period, and Mary (née Davies) of Cwmbach, Llanwinio. He graduated (B.A., 1905) in the University of Wales, and also went to Manchester College, Oxford. He was very able but did not seek a distinguished educational career; and
HUWS, WILLIAM PARI (1853 - 1936), Independent minister grammar school and later to the Bala Independent College, 1874. In 1877 he was admitted to Yale University, U.S.A., where, in 1880, he graduated B.D. On his return to Wales he received a call to Beulah and Bryn-mair churches, Cardiganshire, where he was ordained in 1882. He soon came into the public eye as a zealous temperance reformer and, with his neighbour David Adams of Hawen, initiated a movement
JONES, ELIZABETH MARY (Moelona; 1877 - 1953), teacher and novelist . Her eldest brother was Owen Rhys Owen (1854 - 1908), a Congl. minister whose name has become associated with Glandŵr. The family had to leave Moylon and take Llwyneos, a smaller, remote farm, and it was from there that she went to the elementary school in Rhydlewis. John Newton Crowther was the headmaster -an Englishman who learnt Welsh and became a Welsh poet; he also took a leading part in Hawen
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1885 - 1970), writer English and physical education teacher at Fishguard Grammar School, 1919-36, and then Welsh master there from 1937 until his retirement in 1945. In 1925 he married Siân Evans, daughter of Dan Evans, minister of Hawen (Congl.) church, and Mary his wife, and sister of the poet William Evans, ' Wil Ifan '. They made their home in the Bristol Trader, Fishguard, which became a meeting place for hosts of

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