Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, DAVID (1778 - 1866), Baptist minister verdict which he obstinately maintained to have done him an injustice, he preferred to spend two-and-a-half years in Carmarthen gaol. He died 5 March 1866; according to his tombstone he was then 88 years old. These are all the facts and dates of his career which are recorded. But his place in the memory of his people depends upon things that cannot well be exemplified here: his originality, his wit
EVANS, DAVID (1879 - 1965), public servant and hymn-writer teacher in 1895 at an annual salary of £5. The schoolmaster at this time was John Finnemore, a highly effective teacher, a well-known author of books for boys and undoubtedly, as David Evans would later acknowledge, an important influence on his intellectual development during his formative years. After leaving school he initially pursued a career as a school teacher. After a short spell as assistant
EVANS, DAVID ALLAN PRICE (1927 - 2019), pharmacogeneticist Biochemistry and Physiology in 1948. He then turned to medicine, graduating MBChB in 1951 and winning numerous academic prizes. He did his military service with the R.A.M.C. 1953-5, mostly in the Far East. He treated the so-called jungle diseases amongst the soldiers and their families in Korea towards the end of the war there, and latterly in Kuala Lumpur during the Malayan troubles. This chapter in his
EVANS, Sir DAVID OWEN (1876 - 1945), barrister, industrialist and politician Born 5 February 1876 in Penbryn, Cardiganshire, son of William Evans, farmer, and his wife. He was educated at Llandovery College and the Imperial College of Science, London. In 1896 he entered the Civil Service and was attached to the Inland Revenue Department. He married 1899, Kate Morgan. Whilst in the Civil Service he studied law and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1909. He practised
EVANS, DAVID TECWYN (1876 - 1957), Meth. minister Born 5 December 1876 in Aberdeunant Uchaf, Llandecwyn, Merionethshire, son of Evan and Catherine Evans. He was educated at Llandecwyn national school, Talsarnau board school (where he was also a pupil-teacher), the University College, Bangor, and the theological college at Didsbury, Manchester. He began preaching on Whitsunday 1894 when he was 17 years old, and quickly gained recognition. In 1902
EVANS, EVAN HERBER (1836 - 1896), Independent minister and college principal Born at Pant-yr-onnen, near Newcastle Emlyn, 5 July 1836. He received an elementary education at Newcastle Emlyn, Pont Sely, and Llechryd. He was later employed as a draper's assistant at Rhydlewis, Pontypridd, Merthyr Tydfil, and Liverpool. In Liverpool he came into close contact with John Thomas (1821 - 1892), at whose invitation and that of the congregation of the Tabernacle chapel he began to
EVANS, EVAN JENKIN (1882 - 1944), physicist and university professor series. In 1919 he became assistant director of the Manchester laboratories and was in charge of the department during Rutherford's absence on war work in 1917. He played for many years an important part in the training and building of Rutherford's school in Manchester. He married Elmira, daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary Rees, New Quay, Cardiganshire, and they had 5 children. In 1920 he was
EVANS, EVAN WILLIAM (1860 - 1925), editor and publisher company to edit and publish that journal, this arrangement continuing from the issue for 5 July 1884 until that for 26 June 1914. On 1 July 1914 he started his own weekly newspaper, Y Cymro, of which he was editor, publisher, and printer, and which continued to be published at Dolgelley until 1931. Other newspapers and journals were issued throughout the years from the Dolgelley offices, among them
EVANS, HAROLD MEURIG (1911 - 2010), teacher, lexicographer Meurig Evans was born in Hendy, near Pontarddulais, Carmarthenshire on 5 March 1911, the only child of Henry James Evans, a miner, and Sarah Evans. He went to school there when he was three years old but the family moved to Caerbryn when he was five and he went to Blaenau School where he never had a single Welsh lesson. From there he went to the old Ammanford County School before moving to the
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
EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath . Again, the D.N.B. tentatively suggests the John Evans who graduated from Jesus in 1671 - matriculated 5 May 1667 at 19, M.A. from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1674 (Venn). But this man hailed from Denbighshire, being the son of a cleric named David Evans, of Trofarth, Abergele - Venn however adds 'of Caernarvonshire.' Foster, however, has yet another entry: ' John, son of Bonner, of Plasdu,' who
EVANS, JOHN GWENOGVRYN (1852 - 1930), palaeographer Gwilym Marles at Llandysul and Alcwyn C. Evans at Carmarthen), and entered the Presbyterian College at Carmarthen in 1872, remaining there till 1876 (apart from an interval in 1874-5 as assistant in a school in England). Ordained to the Unitarian ministry in August 1876, he was pastor at Carmarthen (1876-7) and at Preston (1877-80), but early in 1880 loss of voice compelled him to give up the ministry

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