Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, DAVID (1886 - 1968), Professor of German and author the fundamental values of rural life (for him, around Y Frenni Fawr) and a study for which there was a great demand for a second edition at the end of the year, partly because it was so enthusiastically recommended by David Lloyd George in a speech at Wrexham national eisteddfod. David Evans was very active in the college at Aberystwyth. He was the prime mover in the introduction of a scheme of
EVANS, DAVID GWILYM LLOYD (1933 - 1990), cricketer and cricket umpire
EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1813 - 1902), Unitarian minister and tutor (1840-2), thereafter returning to assist John Edward Jones (1801 - 1866) of Bridgend in his pastorate and in his school (1843-50). In 1847 he was one of the founders of Yr Ymofynydd, of which he later became editor, 1868-72. In 1850 he accepted a call to the church at Colyton, Devon, and remained there as minister and schoolmaster until 1863. In 1856 he married Ophelia, daughter of captain George Eyre
EVANS, DAVID LLOYD (1861 - 1912), shopkeeper, traveller, and musician
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, ERNEST (1885 - 1965), county court judge, M.P. Circuit. He served with the R.A.S.C. in France during World War I and was promoted to the rank of Captain. From November 1918 to December 1920, he was a private secretary to David Lloyd George. In 1921, M.L. Vaughan Davies, an out-and-out Tory who sat as the Liberal M.P. for Cardiganshire from 1895, was created a peer, with the title Lord Ystwyth of Tan-y-Bwlch. With Lloyd George's support, Evans fought
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
EVANS, GEORGE EWART (1909 - 1988), writer and oral historian was one of eleven children in a predominantly Welsh speaking family, all of whom attended Calfaria, the Welsh Baptist chapel which adjoined the family grocer's store in Abercynon, and where William Evans was chapel deacon and superintendent of the Sunday school. George Ewart Evans reconstructs the warm atmosphere of his bustling, crowded boyhood in his semi-autobiographical novel The Voices of the
EVANS, GEORGE EYRE (1857 - 1939), Unitarian minister and antiquary , 1897; The Midland Churches, 1899; Lampeter, 1905; Cardiganshire, a Personal Survey, 1903; Record of the Provincial Assembly of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1896; Antiquarian Notes, a private magazine published from 1898 until at least 1905 [and edited Lloyd Letters (1754-96), 1908 ]. He also left a large number of books still in manuscript. He died 9 November 1939 at the age of 82, and his ashes were
EVANS, GEORGE PRICHARD (1820 - 1874), Baptist minister and schoolmaster
EVANS, GRIFFITH IFOR (1889 - 1966), surgeon and pioneer of the Christian Faith Healing Movement in Wales . He graduated in medicine in 1916. Following a period of three years war service with the R.A.M.C., he gained the M.A. and D.M. in 1919, and the F.R.C.S. in 1921. With such a remarkable academic record it is somewhat surprising that he did not seek a consultant post in one of the London hospitals. However he came to Caernarfon in 1926 to join Dr. Lloyd Roberts in general practice at 37 Castle Square
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician Plaid National Executive in 1949 to set up the Campaign for a Parliament for Wales in Five Years. The campaign got off to a shaky start but managed to attract Megan Lloyd George as chair and eventually Huw T. Edwards and a number of Labour MPs to come out in support. Major rallies and packed meetings were held and by the time S. O. Davies presented his Parliament for Wales Bill to parliament in March

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