Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EMERY, FRANK VIVIAN (1930 - 1987), historical geographer ' perceptions of Natal', Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 8: 1-9 1989 'The landscape', in Owen, D. H. (ed.) Settlement and Society in Wales (University of Wales Press, Cardiff): 57-71
EMMANUEL, IVOR LEWIS (1927 - 2007), singer and actor career in movies was more limited, but one performance became famous. He was cast in a minor role as Private James Owen in the 1964 film Zulu. The film presented a somewhat ornamented version of how fewer than 150 British soldiers defended the Rorke's Drift mission station against four thousand Zulus in the South African Wars of 1879. It was co-produced by his friend and fellow Welshman Stanley Baker
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog Lewis Anwyl, vicar of Abergele, author and translator, and that Ifan Griffith's brother, Owen Griffith (died 1728), was rector of Llanfrothen.) The heir of Ifan Griffith was ROBERT GRIFFITH (1717 - 1750), his son by his first wife, Jane, daughter and heiress of Thomas Meyrick, Berthlwyd, Ffestiniog. Robert Griffith, who was sheriff of Merioneth, 1742, married Ann, daughter of Thomas Lloyd Anwyl
EVANS, ALBERT OWEN (1864 - 1937), archdeacon of Bangor
EVANS, ANNIE FLORENCE (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary Florrie Evans was born on 15 December 1884 in New Quay, Cardiganshire, the second of the four children of David Owen Evans (1853-1918), a mariner, and his wife Margaret (née Jones, 1853-1929), who were living at 5 Marine Terrace in 1881, and at 4 Lewis Terrace ten years later. By 1901, following her father's promotion to captain, the family moved to 12 Marine Terrace which remained their home
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor ; Siân Phillips, Dame Sybil Thorndike and Dame Flora Robson; Emlyn Williams, Alun Owen and Christopher Fry. Meetings with Cardiff City Council progressed and locations were discussed. The plan was for a nine hundred seat theatre, art gallery and restaurant, rehearsal rooms, a two hundred seat student theatre and a large outdoor auditorium in Sophia Gardens, adjacent to Cardiff Castle. This centre was
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer Geiriadur Cymraeg between 1887 and 1896. In the early seventies he gradually became emancipated from William Owen Pughe's ideas through contacts made with several young scholars whose scientific training must have deeply influenced him; among these were John Peter, (Sir) John Rhys, and John Gwenogvryn Evans. Through the good offices of Benjamin Williams (Gwynionydd, 1821 - 1891), incumbent of Llanover
EVANS, DAVID (1842 - 1914), Congregational minister Born 15 January 1842 in Penybont-fawr, Montgomeryshire. He worked in his father's factory for a while. He was one of those who were influenced by the religious revival of 1859. After he had started preaching in Llanfyllin he went to a school in London, where his brother Owen Evans (1829 - 1920), was a Congregational minister, in order to prepare for the Independent college at Bala, where he spent
EVANS, DAVID ALLAN PRICE (1927 - 2019), pharmacogeneticist David Price Evans was born on 6 March 1927 in Birkenhead, Liverpool, the only son of Owen Evans,, a postmaster, and his wife Ellen (née Jones) from Anglesey. Before he started school the family had moved to Llangefni, and they moved again to Flint where he completed his primary education and attended Holywell Grammar School. He went on to Liverpool University in 1945, and graduated in
EVANS, Sir DAVID OWEN (1876 - 1945), barrister, industrialist and politician
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer E. Estyn Evans was born 29 May, 1905, opposite Darwin's birthplace in Mount Street, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury. As a teenager, his father, George Owen Evans (1865-1921), had worked in claypits and coalmines around Acrefair near Ruabon, Denbighshire, before entering Bala CM ministrial training college. His mother, Elizabeth (1864–1944), formerly an apprentice milliner in Wrexham, was the eldest of
EVANS, EVAN (1851 - 1934), eisteddfodwr, and secretary of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion that of David Lloyd George, with whom he early formed a friendship which was to prove lifelong. The two institutions with which the name of Vincent Evans was to be the most closely associated for half a century were the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and the National Eisteddfod Association. The former was born in 1751, went to sleep periodically, and was finally awakened in 1873 by Sir Hugh Owen

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