Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, MARY JANE (Llaethferch; 1888 - 1922), elocutionist buried in the graveyard at Godre'r Graig on Saturday, 4 March For a period of less than four years, she appeared like a shooting star over the halls and chapels of Wales where she delighted many audiences and became, for that short period, the most famous woman in Wales. Without telling her parents, she married William David Evans on 5 March 1919; he was a teacher in the Maerdy elementary school and
EVANS, MAURICE (1765 - 1831), Evangelical cleric Ifan and Bron-gwyn, 30 October 1820. He died 24 December 1831. His evangelical zeal was much admired by many leaders of the Evangelical movement in England in the time of Henry Venn. Thomas Jones of Creaton (1752 - 1845) said of him in a letter to Thomas Charles, March 1794 - 'He is a charming soul, a bundle of sweet dispositions.' He played a leading part in paving the way for getting Bibles for the
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer estimated that 20% of the population listened to it. This made 'Merêd' a household name in Wales while he was still a relatively young man. It was here, at Bryn Meirion, Bangor, in March 1947, that he met Phyllis Kinney, an opera singer from Pontiac, Michigan. They were married the following spring on 10 April 1948 and had one daughter, Eluned (b. 1949). This was a long and happy marriage on the whole and
EVANS, RICHARD THOMAS (1892 - 1962), Baptist minister and administrator centralise all the activities of the denomination under one roof in the new office, Tŷ Ilston, that was opened in Swansea in 1940. He married 28 March 1921 at Seion, Glanconwy, Maria Myfanwy (born 27 June 1893), the daughter of William Wallace Thomas (1832 - 1904), a native of Pentrefoelas and an Independent minister at Maes-glas, Holywell from 1873 until his retirement to Glanconwy in 1885. Her principal
EVANS, GERAINT LLEWELLYN (1922 - 1992), singer Eisteddfod in Swansea in 1982. Since 1966 he had had a summer home at Aberaeron, and he retired there completely at the end of his career, being very much at home in the community and on good terms with the townspeople. He married Brenda Evans Davies (1920-2010) from Cilfynydd on 27 March 1948, and they had two sons, Alun and Huw; in his autobiography Geraint Evans praises his wife for her support and her
EVANS, THOMAS HOPKIN (1879 - 1940), musician Born 6 March 1879 at Resolven, Glamorganshire, son of David and Ann Evans. He received his early training from Professor David Evans, and began his career as organist of London Road Presbyterian church, Neath, and conductor of the Neath choral society which, under his direction, gave a number of concerts of large-scale choral and orchestral works which attracted attention. He conducted the Welsh
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1894 - 1965), local government officer and an administrator within the Baptist denomination Born 30 March 1894 in Carmarthen, one of twin sons of David Evans (died 16 August 1926 aged 55 years), prison officer, and Mary Ann Evans (née Williams, died 24 December 1895 aged 25 years). About three months after his birth the family moved to Shepton Mallet, where his father had taken employment, but following his mother's death the son returned to Carmarthen to be raised by his grandmother
EVANS, TIMOTHY EDGAR (1912 - 2007), opera singer in the Metropolitan Police until 1942; then he began performing with CEMA and ENSA, travelling all over Britain and singing in over 500 concerts. When the Covent Garden Opera Company was formed in 1946 he was engaged as one of three principal tenors, and first came to prominence on 25 March 1947 when he deputised for Heddle Nash as Des Grieux in Massenet's opera Manon. From then until his
EVANS, WILLIAM, Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer Hardly anything is known about him (see the rather confused correspondence in Ymofynydd, December 1887, 268-70, 275-6, January 1888, 19-20, and February 1888 43-4), except that he hailed from Cefn-gwili, Llanedy, Carmarthenshire, and according to W. D. Jeremy was at Carmarthen Academy 1768-72. At the beginning of 1776 he was minister at Sherborne, but in March he accepted a call to
EVANS, WILLIAM GARETH (1941 - 2000), historian and university lecturer in education sons. Their Aberystwyth home was at 'Berwyn', 37 Cefn Esgair, Llanbadarn Fawr. The younger son Rhys Evans is the author of the highly acclaimed biography Gwynfor: Rhag Pob Brad published by Gwasg y Lolfa in 2005. Gareth Evans died at his home on 28 March 2000, after a long and brave battle against cancer.
EVANS, WILLIAM MEIRION (1826 - 1883), miner, Calvinistic Methodist minister in U.S.A. and Australia, and editor of journals published in Australia 100 miles from Adelaide, and began to preach to his fellow- Welshmen there - the first Welsh preacher in Australia. In 1850 he moved to Aponinga and, 1852, to the Bendigo gold-mining district, where he made a considerable sum of money. He returned to Wales in March 1853 in order to take his parents and other members of his family to the U.S.A. He settled in the state of Illinois in the summer of the
FERRAR, ROBERT (d. 1555), Protestant martyr and bishop advantage of Somerset's fall to present a series of grave accusations against his protégé. After the accession of Mary, Ferrar was imprisoned in Southwark, and, in March 1554, was deprived of his bishopric for heresy and marriage. After some indecision, Ferrar, fortified by Bradford and other Protestant prisoners, refused to recant when examined by bishop Gardiner and other commissioners in February 1555

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