Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, CALEB (d. 1790), schoolmaster - see EVANS, HUGH
EVANS, CARADOC (1878 - 1945), author Born at Pant-y-croy, Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, Carmarthenshire, 31 December 1878, and christened David, son of William Evans, auctioneer, and Mary (née Powell). He spent most of his childhood at Lanlas, Rhydlewis, and attended the board school there before he was apprenticed to the drapery trade. He worked as a shop assistant for some twelve years-in Carmarthen, Cardiff and London. In London he
EVANS, CAYO - see CAYO-EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD JULIAN
EVANS, CHRISTMAS (1766 - 1838), Baptist minister One of the most famous Welsh preachers. Born at Esgaer-waen, Llandysul, Cardiganshire, on Christmas Day 1766, son of Samuel Evans, boot-maker, and Joanna his wife. Parish apprentice, farm labourer on local farms, among others at the home of the celebrated David Davis (1745 - 1827) of Castellhywel - that is his story as a youth. Joining, when about 18 years of age, one of the churches of which
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor Clifford Evans was born in Senghennydd, Glamorgan, on 17 February 1912, the youngest of three children of David Evans, an outfitter, and his wife Dinah, a milliner. He had a brother, Kenneth, and a sister, Pearl. When his father joined up for the Great War Cliff went to live with his maternal grandparents in Bronwydd, Carmarthenshire. Welsh was his first language. At eleven years old he attended
EVANS, DAFYDD (1842 - 1893), schoolmaster - see EVANS, DAVID
EVANS, DAFYDD - see EVANS, DAVID
EVANS, DANIEL (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792 - 1846), cleric and poet to ill health, returned home to his parents, and never took up another appointment as long as he lived. He published: Awdlau: gan … Daniel Evans, bardd i Anrhydeddus Gym-deithas y Gwyneddigion, Llundain, 1810 (no. 9 in ' Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion'); Gwlad fy Ngenedigaeth and Attebiad 'Ioan Tegid,' 1819? (a poem trying to persuade ' Tegid ' not to leave Wales for the East Indies); Awdl
EVANS, DANIEL (Eos Dâr; 1846 - 1915), musician Born in a thatched cottage called Tŷ Coch, near Carmarthen, son of Dafydd and Esther Evans. The family moved to Aberdare, where the boy began to work in a coalmine at the early age of 8. As the father was a printer in the office of Y Gwron and Seren Gomer, the son came to know such persons as Llew Llwyfo (Lewis W. Lewis) and others who worked in that printing office. When he was 11 years old he
EVANS, DANIEL (1774 - 1835), Congregational minister he spent the remainder of his life as a very successful minister and preacher. He succoured weak churches and started some new causes. He was a moderate Calvinist in his doctrine. He died 3 March 1835. He wrote biographies of Lewis Rees, William Evans of Cwmllynfell John Davies of Alltwen, and John Davies of Llansamlet, together with Lleferydd yr Asyn (Swansea, J. Harris, 1822), Y Cawg Aur (Swansea
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer Born at Fron Wilym Uchaf, LlanarthLlanarth, Cardiganshire, 11 January 1818, son of Silvanus and Sarah Evans. From 1838 to 1840 he was at Thomas Phillips's school at Neuadd-lwyd, where he began to preach among the Independents. In December 1840 he went to Brecon Independent College, but his stay there was short. Thereafter for five years he kept school. In 1843 he published a collection of poems
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar D. Simon Evans was born in Broderi, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, 29 May 1921, the eldest child of David Evans and his wife Sarah Jane (née Lewis); he had a sister and a younger brother, Prof. D. Ellis Evans. David Evans's family had for generations played a prominent part in the life of the community in Llanfynydd and in particular in the Methodist chapel, Banc y Spite, and Simon Evans always had

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