Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, GEORGE EWART (1909 - 1988), writer and oral historian Born 1 April 1909 in Abercynon, third son of William Evans (died 1942) of Pentyrch, shopkeeper, and first son of his second wife Janet, née Hitchings, of Llangynwyd. He came of a radical family and was named after William Ewart Gladstone; his own radicalism, fired by the suffering of the Welsh miners during the inter-war depression, took him further to the left and into the Communist Party. He
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician Gwynfor Evans was born on 1 September 1912 at Y Goedwig, 24 Somerset Road, Barry, the eldest of the three children of Daniel James ('Dan') Evans (1883-1972), an industrious and highly successful shopkeeper, and Catherine Mary (née Richard) (1879-1969), herself a shopkeeper from a chapel-going London Welsh background, originally from Cydweli. Gwynfor Evans was above all the product of Welsh
EVANS, HARRY (1873 - 1914), musician Born 1 May 1873 in Russell Street, Dowlais, Glamorganshire, the son of John and Sarah Evans. His sister taught him the Tonic Sol-fa system. He was only 9 years old when he was appointed organist at Gwernllwyn Congregational chapel, Dowlais, and the church arranged for him to receive music lessons from Edward Laurence, Merthyr Tydfil. In 1887 he was appointed organist of Bethania Congregational
EVANS, HORACE (1st. BARON EVANS of MERTHYR TYDFIL), (1903 - 1963), physician Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, 1 January 1903, the elder son of Harry Evans and his wife Edith Gwendolen (née Rees). Soon after his birth they moved to Dowlais, where his grandfather was a pharmacist, and later to Liverpool. He was educated at Liverpool College and after his father's early death in 1914 he went to the Guildhall School of Music for four years and to the City of London
EVANS, JAMES (1866 - 1931), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author from 1910 till his death (at Pontypool), 1 August 1931, at Suffolk Street, Birmingham; he was unmarried. Lethargic in outward appearance, he had a remarkably lively mind and a mordant wit. Despite his lack of academic advantages, he developed scholarship and a love of letters - and it may be added that despite his long association with Calvinistic Methodism, his childhood upbringing in Independency
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 (1858 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and professor at the Memorial College, Brecon died 1 January 1963 in his lodgings in Brecon, his home for many years. In a few months' time he would have reached the age of 105. He was buried in the town cemetery when snow lay heavy on the ground.
EVANS, JOHN (1840 - 1897), Wesleyan minister ) (1875), London (1878), Bangor (1886), Oswestry (Llanrhaeadr Mochnant circuit) (1889). He was minister at the English chapel, Liverpool Road, London (1890), and started a mission at Pontypridd (1893). He died in Liverpool when on a preaching tour, 23 October 1897. He married (1) Charlotte, daughter of John Pritchard, Norwood Grove, Liverpool, and (2) Clara Kate Richardson of Ealing. He went to the
EVANS, JOHN GWENOGVRYN (1852 - 1930), palaeographer offered - the dates in [ ] representing discrepancies between imprints and actual publication: (1) The Text of the Mabinogion … from the Red Book of Hergest (Oxford, 1887); (2) Facsimile of the Black Book of Carmarthen (Oxford, 1908); (3) The Text of the Bruts (Oxford, 1890); (4) The Text of the Book of Llan Dav (Oxford, 1893); (5) The Black Book of Carmarthen (Pwllheli, 1906; students' ed., 1907); (6
EVANS, OWEN (1829 - 1920), Congregational minister and author Congregational Union in 1887. He died 1 June 1920. Many of Owen Evans's published works consisted of addresses which he had given in Bible study classes. They are: Gwyrthiau Crist, 1868, Dammegion yr Arglwydd Iesu, 1873, Oriau gyda'r Iesu, 1882; Merched yr Ysgrythyrau and Sêr y Duyrain, 1886, Geiriau Olaf Iesu Grist, 1887, Yr Aberthau, 1889, and Bywgraffiadau'r Beibl a Phregethau Eraill, 1899. He was not an
EVANS, OWEN (1808 - 1865), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster accepted a call to Blaen-gwrach and in 1837 moved to Cefncoedycymer, where he remained for twenty-eight years, as minister of the Old Meeting House, and schoolmaster. His school was attended by a large number of pupils of all denominations. He was learned in the ancient languages and was, for years, examiner in Hebrew at Carmarthen College. He was twice married - (1) to Jennet, daughter of David Davis of
EVANS, THOMAS (1844 - 1922), Congregational minister Born 1 November 1844 at Y Ffatri, Pen-y-bont-fawr, Montgomeryshire. He worked in his father's factory for some time. Influenced by the Welsh religious revival of 1859 he started to preach. He was at Bala Independent College, 1865-8, ministering afterwards at Betws-y-coed and Salem (Capel Garmon), 1868-74, and at Amlwch, 1874-1922. He was considered a diligent pastor and a preacher with a kindly

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