Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, ELLIS (1786 - 1864), Baptist minister and author were published. His materials were later catalogued by James Spinther James, who also collected his letters, which are now in the Spinther MSS. in the National Library of Wales. His essays on the Apostolic Fathers are at the Baptist College, Bangor. He died 28 March 1864. His nephew Edward Ellis is separately noticed; [another brother, JOHN EVANS (1791 - 1855), known as ' Siôn Pen-rhiw,' was an
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer vernacular buildings, fully furnished and documented, together with exhibition areas, library and archive collections, now exemplify Ulster's diverse cultural traditions, and are regarded as being of international importance. A parallel initiative was the establishment at Queens University Belfast in 1965 of the multi-disciplinary Institute of Irish Studies, of which Evans was Director (1968-70) and Senior
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Fardd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir; 1731 - 1788), scholar, poet, and cleric It is now usual to refer to him under the former name, as there was a much older Ieuan Brydydd Hir. Born 20 May 1731 at Cynhawdref farm in the parish of Lledrod, Cardiganshire, the son of Jenkin and Catherine Evans. He was taught by Edward Richard at Ystrad Meurig school, but the exact dates of his stay at that school are not known. On 8 December 1750 he was entered at Merton College, Oxford
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician tireless missonary efforts over the years, were vindicated in his brilliant victory in the Carmarthen by-election, July 1966. Gwynfor was magnanimous and forward-looking in his hour of success. He charged his supporters to welcome the thousands of new members, very different in background and culture, who would now flow into the party's ranks. New Nation's organisational reforms were brought in and
EVANS, HAROLD MEURIG (1911 - 2010), teacher, lexicographer the last year or two of his life. His very deep wish was to publish an updated edition of Y Geiriadur Mawr to include new modern Welsh words, coal mining terminology - words that were by now dying out with the death of that industry - and also more colloquial phrases. Sadly there was no hope of that dream ever being realised. Developments in the world of publishing with the coming of the age of
EVANS, HARRY (1873 - 1914), musician at Liverpool in 1900. He conducted the Merthyr national eisteddfod (1901) choir; this choir gave a performance of ' Israel in Egypt.' In 1903 the prize of £200 offered at the Llanelly national eisteddfod was won by him. He now gave up competing and in that year accepted the invitation to become conductor of the Liverpool Welsh Choral Union; under his conductorship several works by the masters were
EVANS, ILLTUD (1913 - 1972), Catholic priest living in each Catholic, thus making the many into one. Evans spent most of the 1960s in the United States. He lived first in New York, before becoming Preacher-General at the Dominican Provincial House of Studies, Oakland, California, in 1966. There he taught homiletics and conducted diocesan retreats. He was also associate editor of Faith Now. From the beginning of his ministry, Evans had a
EVANS, IOAN LYONEL (1927 - 1984), Labour politician Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Western European Union and the Parliamentarians for World Order. In 1982 he returned to the front bench of the House of Commons, after twelve years on the backbenches, now as number two to Eric Heffer, the opposition spokesman on European and Community affairs. Ioan Evans was always viewed as a conscientious and hard-working constituency MP and a staunch supporter
EVANS, JOHN (1628 - 1700), Puritan schoolmaster and divine of his own wife he married Powell's widow. Under the Declaration of Indulgence he was licensed (May 1672) to preach to the Independent congregation at Wrexham that had first gathered round Morgan Llwyd, now meeting in a barn rented from Edward Kenrick, while the minister lived in the house in which John Jones the regicide had formerly accommodated Llwyd, and still belonging to the regicide's son
EVANS, JOHN (d. 1779), Evangelical cleric, translator, and commentator Born at Meini Gwynion, Llanbadarn Odwyn (now Llangeitho), Cardiganshire. He is said to have been educated at Oxford, and to have graduated [but he cannot be identified in Foster's Alumni, and there has been considerable confusion between him and John Evans, 1702 - 1782 ]. His first curacy was at Llanarth, Cardiganshire; then he became curate at Plymouth, to be known henceforth as 'the parson of
EVANS, JOHN DANIEL (1862 - 1943), early colonist in Patagonia was attacked by an unidentified Indigenous group in the Kel-Kein valley. His three companions were killed before he himself miraculously escaped on his Malacara pony (an incident which occurred in the context of the Argentine 'Conquest of the Desert', now identified by a number of scholars as an Indigenous genocide). He led a party to the Andes in 1885, when Cwm Hyfryd was found by the colonists; he
EVANS, MARY JANE (Llaethferch; 1888 - 1922), elocutionist member of Panteg Congregational church; she was among those members released in 1905 to establish a church in Godre'r Graig. On the initiative of her minister, Ben Davies (1864 - 1937), she took lessons in recitation with David Thomas Jones. Mary Jane now began to recite at literary meetings and at eisteddfodau; she became famous as ' Llaethferch ' and won many chairs and cups. In April 1909, she

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