Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, THOMAS (fl. 1596-1633), poet and transcriber of manuscripts He is known as Thomas Evans of Hendreforfudd, a township in the old parish of Corwen, but now lying in the ecclesiastical parish of Llansantffraid Glyn Dyfrdwy. He was the son of Evan ap John ap Robert ap Madoc ap Jenkin ap Griffith ap Bleddyn and Lowri, daughter of Griffith ab Evan ap David Ddu ap Tudur ab Evan ap Llewelyn ap Griffith ap Meredith ap Llewelyn ap Ynyr. The place and time of his
EVANS, TOM VALENTINE (1861 - 1935), Baptist minister (Swansea Valley), where he remained until his resignation in 1927. He married Jennet Griffiths of Bridgend, 1886. He lectured frequently on such subjects as Robert Ellis (Cynddelw), ' The Hymn Book,' Joseph Harris (Gomer), and 'The Folklore of Carmarthenshire.' He published Clydach a'r Cylch (a prize-winning essay) in 1901, Y Ford, a book of sermons 'for children of all ages,' in 1911, and Ieuan Ddu o
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author The second of Robert and Winifred Evans' four children, and the eldest son, he was born February 5 1909, at Y Fedw, a farm in the parish of Llanycil, near Bala, Meirionethshire. His father was an elder and the precentor in Moelygarnedd Chapel (C M.) and his mother was of the Lloyd family, Pen-y-bryn, Llandderfel. 'Llwyd o'r Bryn' (Bob Lloyd) was her brother, and as a boy Trebor turned to his
EVANS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1805), early Calvinistic Methodist exhorter . He published at Trevecka in 1786 an elegy upon Mrs. Thomas Charles's mother Jane Foulkes; and in 1789 a small book o hymmns by himself and Edward Parry (1723 - 1786) and others, printed 'for the benefit of a poor man named William Ellis '. According to Robert Jones of Rhoslan, he was ' paralysed for some time before his death.' In 1805, he went to Devonport, to visit two of his sons who lived there
EVANS, WILLIAM CHARLES (1911 - 1988), chemist and biologist Charles Evans was born 1 October 1911 in Bethel, near Caernarfon, Gwynedd, the third son of the five children of Robert and Elizabeth Evans; the father was a stone mason at Dinorwic quarry. After receiving his early education at Bethel primary school and Caernarfon Central and grammar schools, he won the John Hughes Exhibition to Bangor University College where he graduated with first-class
EVERETT, ROBERT (1791 - 1875), Independent ministers The two brothers were born at Gronant, Flintshire, Robert in 1791 and Lewis 20 February 1799. Their grandfather was a Scot and their grandmother an Englishwoman; their father was the manager of a lead mine, a member of Trelawnyd ('Newmarket') congregation and a lay preacher. Robert Everett began to preach in 1809; he went to the grammar school at Denbigh and in 1811 to the academy at Wrexham
FAGAN, THOMAS WALLACE (1874 - 1951), agricultural chemist by the college. He became head of the department of agricultural chemistry of the college in 1924, as successor to J. Jones Griffith. He was promoted Professor in 1931 and retired in 1939. In collaboration with the Welsh Plant Breeding Station between 1919 and 1939 Fagan became one of the leading British scientists studying the chemistry of grass and its conservation. He was a pioneer in this field
FARRINGTON, RICHARD (1702 - 1772), cleric and antiquary The son of Robert Farrington of Chester and Elizabeth (Jones) of Cefn Ysgwydd, Llechylched, Anglesey. In 1720 he entered Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1724. His first charge as curate may have been at Gresford, whence he removed to Bromfield. In 1739 he became attached to St Asaph Cathedral. In 1741 he was appointed vicar of Llanwnda-cum-Llanfaglan, residing at Dinas. In 1742
FERRAR, ROBERT (d. 1555), Protestant martyr and bishop
FIELD, THEOPHILUS (1574 - 1636), bishop Born 1574. He was bishop of Llandaff 1619-27, S. Davids, 1627-35, and Hereford, 1635-6. His somewhat notorious career is recounted in the D.N.B. His name is included in the present volume merely because it was he who lent ' The Book of Llandav ' to John Selden (Field was the last bishop to write his name in that book); thus it was that Llandaff never recovered the manuscript, which passed from
FINIAN (fl. 6th century), saint Of the several versions of a ' Life of S. Finian ' which have been preserved, two are of greater importance than the rest. The one is included in Colgan's Acta SS. Hiberniae; the other, a fuller version though later in date, is an Irish translation found in the Book of Lismore. S. Finian was Irish by birth, and his chief field of activity was Ireland, where his principal foundation was the
FITZ WARIN family, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston plans, c. 1227, for the marriage of Angharad, daughter of Madog ap Gruffydd, to the son of Fulk, but the wedding did not take place - it is unknown if Llywelyn's opposition caused the scheme to fail. [At the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264, FULK IV was drowned while escaping from the field; afterwards] Simon de Montfort sought the aid of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and one of the means of doing this was to

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