Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, JOHN (1796 - 1861), schoolmaster , where the youth of the neighbourhood received a practical education for over forty years. Among his pupils were Lewis Edwards, Henry Richard, David Charles Davies and Ieuan Gwyllt (John Roberts). When Lewis Edwards kept a school in Aberystwyth he did not consider it to be in competition with but, rather, preparatory to Evans ' school. The school had a good name for the teaching of navigation. Evans
EVANS, JOHN (1702 - 1782), cleric and anti-Methodist the Crown living of Eglwys Cymyn (variously spelt), but resided only for a few weeks each summer - Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) was one of his curates, but was dismissed for Methodism. Evans lived in London, in Cowley Street, Westminster, where Richard Morris of Anglesey was his neighbour and friend. He was a protégé of bishop Edmund Gibson's, and about 1742 became 'Reading Chaplain' of the Chapel
EVANS, MAURICE (1765 - 1831), Evangelical cleric Born at Pengelli, Llangwyryfon, Cardiganshire. Educated at Ystrad Meurig under Edward Richard, he was ordained by the bishop of S. Davids, 1787, became curate under Henry Venn at Yelling, Huntingdonshire 1791-6, and afterwards in Eltisley, Cambs., 1796-1810. He was presented to the livings of Tregaron, 20 September 1810, Penbryn, 18 April 1818, Llangeler, 14 February 1820, and Penbryn with Betws
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer - there's an air of expectancy. You never know what extraordinary point he's going to make - or what ordinary point in an extraordinary way.' During this time this entertainer was seen keeping equally entertaining company. He greeted Einstein on his way to work, had discussions with Arthur Miller (and Marilyn Monroe), celebrated Augustus John's birthday and partied with Richard Burton and Hugh Griffith
EVANS, RICHARD (1771 - 1851), bonesetter - see THOMAS, HUGH OWEN
EVANS, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1904 - 1995), Calvinistic Methodist minister and professor of theology
EVANS, RICHARD THOMAS (1892 - 1962), Baptist minister and administrator
EVANS, SAMUEL (1859 - 1935), chairman of the Crown Mine, Johannesburg, educational pioneer Born 10 February 1859, son of Richard Evans, farmer, Pant-y-garn, Ruabon, Denbighshire, he was educated at the Brookside School, Wrexham. After a period as proof-reader in the office of Hughes and Son, the Wrexham publishers, he joined the staff of Yr Herald Cymraeg in 1878 as a reporter; in 1880 he joined the staff of The Sheffield Independent, and in November 1883 became private secretary to
EVANS, WILLIAM, Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer pretty definite proof; it is possible that Evans was already a man of mature age and previous good education before he entered the Academy. A copy of this dictionary was among the books bequeathed by Richard Morris to the Welsh Charity-school (Additional Letters of the Morrises of Anglesey (1735-86), p. 808), but Morris himself nowhere speaks of the book. William Richards (1749 - 1818) used Evans's
EVANS, WILLIAM (Cawr Cynon; 1808 - 1860), colliery official and poet Born in a small thatched cottage near Ynys-gau iron bridge, Merthyr Tydfil, son of Richard Morgan Dafydd Evan, miner and country 'doctor.' He became a miner, but devoted his spare time to studying the cynganeddion, and at an early age, won a prize for five englynion. He was a frequent competitor at the local eisteddfodau writing cywyddau and englynion; he won a prize for an essay on the history
EVANS, WILLIAM EMRYS (1924 - 2004), banker and philanthropist Emrys Evans was born on 4 April 1924, the son of Richard and Mary Elizabeth Evans, Maesglas, Y Foel, Montgomeryshire. On leaving Llanfair Caereinion County School in 1941, he went to work with the Midland Bank (now known as HSBC). A year later, he enlisted in the Royal Navy where he served as a radio operator; he was among a small group of men landed in Normandy, one day before D-Day, to report

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