Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
FARRINGTON, RICHARD (1702 - 1772), cleric and antiquary he became the rector of Llangybi, and twenty years later he was made chancellor of Bangor cathedral. He married (1) Mary, daughter of Richard Ellis and Mary (Barker) of Cheltenham - she died in 1750, (2) Eleanor Richardson, Chester. By his first marriage he had four children - Mary, who married William Bridge of Eglwys-bach, Elizabeth, Richard (died 1750), Roger (died in infancy). Descendants of
FENTON, RICHARD (1747 - 1821), poet and topographical writer Born in January 1747 at S. Davids, son of Richard and Martha Fenton. He was educated at the Cathedral school, S. Davids, and Magdalen College, Oxford [but Foster has no record of his matriculation. For many years he was a civil servant, at the Custom House in London, but in 1774 he had joined the Middle Temple ], and in January 1783 he was called to the Bar. He went on circuit in Wales for
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress , often with each other, offered the protection of identification with an uncontroversial sexuality. Throughout the 1930s, Gwen and John were box office gold, acting together in Daviot's Richard of Bordeaux and Chekhov's Three Sisters. Yet, when war was declared and theatres closed - and against the advice of friends who thought it might stymie Gwen's career - Marda persuaded her to work in South Africa
FITZ ALAN family, lords of Oswestry and Clun, and later earls of Arundel , near Towyn, Meironnydd, was besieged in 1294, by Madog ap Llywelyn, RICHARD FITZ ALAN I (1267 - 1302) was in command of the force sent to bring relief and he was active in the other campaigns against the Welsh [see Morris, Welsh Wars of Edward I (index) ]. During the latter years of the reign of Edward II, EDMUND (1285 - 1326), son of Richard I, was justice of Wales (1322), custodian of the Welsh

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