Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author and the reorganisation of local government. He visited Welsh societies in England regularly and initiated the publication of Yr Angor as a liaison between them and Wales. He edited three volumes of The Letters of T.C. Edwards (1952-53). He wrote a biography of his father, Cofiant T.E. Ellis (vol. i, 1944; ii, 1948), Cofiant J.H. Davies (1963), Cofiant Ellis Jones Griffith (1969); and Ym mêr fy
ELLIS-GRIFFITH, Sir ELLIS (JONES) (1860 - 1926), barrister and M.P. Born 23 May 1860 in Birmingham, where his father, Thomas Morris Griffith, was a builder. While Ellis Griffith was still a child, his father retired and the family came to live at Ty Coch, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey. He went to school at Brynsiencyn and Holt and was one of the first batch of students at the University College, Aberystwyth. He graduated in the University of London when he was 19 years
EVAN(S), LEWIS (1720 - 1792), one of the earliest Calvinistic Methodist exhorters in North Wales Christened 18 February 1719/20, son of Evan Lewis of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, but removed when very young to Crugnant, Llanllugan, Montgomeryshire, where he became a weaver. On a visit to Trefeglwys, 4 November 1738, he was converted by a sermon of Howel Harris's. He then went to some of Griffith Jones's circulating schools around Llanllugan, and began to exhort as a Methodist. At the
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog , daughter of John Vaughan, Cefnbodig, near Bala. The heir of Evan Evans and Jonet (Vaughan) was CATHERINE, who married ROBERT GRIFFITH (died 1729), of Bach-y-saint, Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire. The heir of Robert Griffith (who left Bach-y-saint and came to reside at Tan-y-bwlch) and Catherine (Evans) was IFAN GRIFFITH (1688 - 1735). (Note that Ifan Griffith's sister, Gwen Griffith, became the wife of
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor , formed the St David's Theatre Trust to fulfil this dream. His main collaborators were playwright Saunders Lewis and Lord Aberdare. Among the names of those who pledged support were Sir Donald Wolfit, Sir Lewis Casson, Tyrone Guthrie, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Carol Reed; Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Stanley Baker, Harry Secombe, Meredith Edwards, Hugh Griffith, Kenneth Williams and Donald Houston
EVANS, DAVID (1886 - 1968), Professor of German and author Inspector of Elementary Schools in Carmarthenshire and her mother had been a member of the 'Côr Mawr' conducted by Griffith Rhys Jones ('Caradog'). His wife, too, was a graduate of Aberystwyth College in 1910, and by the time she met David Evans in Birmingham she had been appointed French teacher at Halesowen grammar school for girls. At Aberystwyth she actively supported several good causes, e.g. Friends
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 practice. He had a good singing voice, he was an elder at Engedi chapel and a lay preacher. In 1942-43 he was president of the North Wales Branch of the B.M.A., and in the same year he was High Sheriff of the County of Caernarfon. He was a man of wide culture and was interested in philosophy and theology as well as the sciences. As the years went by Griffith Evans was increasingly attracted to the
EVANS, HENRY (fl. end of 17th century), poet and translator A native of Bedwellty, Monmouth. In 1771 Thomas Williams (1697 - 1778) of Mynydd-bach, Carmarthenshire, published a volume of verse translated by Henry Evans from the English, entitled Cynghorion Tad i'w Fab, which included a letter from Stephen Hughes, dated 12 March 1682/3, stating that he had received the book for publication from the author, who thus must have been a contemporary of Stephen
EVANS, JOHN (1858 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and professor at the Memorial College, Brecon . When he was 12 years old he was apprenticed to a shopkeeper in Llangrannog. Three years later he went to work in a grocer's and clothier's shop in Beaufort, Monmouth. About 1877 he decided to become a candidate for the ministry and delivered his first sermon in Maen-y-groes chapel, near New Quay. He went to the school kept by C.H. Hughes in the vestry of Tywyn (Congl.) chapel, New Quay, and in 1881
EVANS, JOHN (1796 - 1861), schoolmaster helped to send Evans to a school conducted by Griffith Davies, the famous actuary. There he made rapid progress in mathematics.After keeping school at Llanfair Caereinion and Llanidloes, he returned to Aberystwyth about 1821 (or earlier, for his tombstone states that he was a schoolmaster for forty-four years) to open his famous school, ' The Mathematical and Commercial School,' in Chalybeate Street

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