Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, SAMUEL JAMES (1870 - 1938), schoolmaster, educationalist, and author Born 4 August 1870 at Llandysul, Cardiganshire, the second son of David Evans, currier, and Margaret Jones. He was educated at the Tyssul grammar school, Llandysul, and at Aberystwyth University College, graduating B.A. (Lond.) in 1892 and M.A. in 1894. He married Annie, daughter of Thomas Griffiths, Aberystwyth (agent to the Nanteos estate), and had two sons. He was appointed in 1895 the first
EVANS, Sir SAMUEL THOMAS (1859 - 1918), politician and judge Born at Skewen, Glamorganshire, May 1859, the only son of John Evans, a local grocer, and Margaret Evans, both natives of Cardiganshire. After attending the Collegiate School at Swansea, he proceeded to Aberystwyth College and took a London degree. Overcoming his parents' wish that he should enter the ministry, he became articled at Neath and qualified as a solicitor in 1883. He served on the
EVANS, SEBASTIAN (1830 - 1909), littérateur - see EVANS, LEWIS
EVANS, GERAINT LLEWELLYN (1922 - 1992), singer Geraint Evans was born on 16 February 1922 in William Street, Cilfynydd, the son of William John Evans (1899-1978), a coalminer, and his wife Charlotte May (née Thomas, 1901-1923). His mother died on the birth of a second child, and Geraint was raised by his mother's parents until he was ten, when his father remarried and moved to Hopkinstown near Pontypridd. He left school at fourteen to work in
EVANS, STEPHEN (1818 - 1905), Cymmrodor in the same year, Evans was elected chairman of the council, and continued in that office till his death. He died 21 August 1905 at his home in Brockley; he was buried at Chislehurst. He married a Miss Chase, a Leicestershire lady, and had two daughters.
EVANS, T. HOPKIN - see EVANS, THOMAS HOPKIN
EVANS, THEOPHILUS (1693 - 1767), cleric, historian, and man of letters He was christened in Llandygwydd church, Cardiganshire, 21 February 1693, son of Charles Evans of Pen-y-wenallt, near Newcastle Emlyn, by his second wife, and grandson of Evan Griffith Evans - the ' Captain Tory ' of Charles I's army. It is not known where he was educated. There is no record of him at Shrewsbury school nor is there any certainty that he attended the grammar school at Carmarthen
EVANS, THOMAS (1739 - 1803), booksellers are commemorated in the D.N.B. The elder Thomas Evans is famous for his fight with Oliver Goldsmith (1773). He is usually called 'a Welshman ', and is said, in the D.N.B., to have been born in Wales, but confirmation of this is lacking - unless, indeed, the fact that Goldsmith had to pay £50 'to a Welsh charity' (presumably the Welsh Charity-school) may be so regarded. The younger Thomas Evans is
EVANS, THOMAS (Tomos Glyn Cothi; 1764 - 1833), Unitarian minister the first specifically Unitarian minister in Wales
EVANS, THOMAS (1625 - 1688), Baptist minister Spinther seems to think, who attended the Aberafan assembly (1654) but Thomas Evans of Dyffryn-ffrwd. In spite of the fact that under Charles II he was thrown into prison at Brecon and grievously persecuted, two of his sons and many of his descendants entered the ministry, among them being Hugh and Caleb Evans of Bristol, John Evans of Islington, etc. [see under Hugh Evans (1712 - 1781) ]. He continued
EVANS, THOMAS (Telynog; 1840 - 1865), poet Born 8 September 1840 at Cardigan, son of Thomas Evans, boatmaker of that town. At the age of eleven he went to sea in a coastal vessel but, not liking this life, he ran away to Aberdare, where he worked as a miner in Cwm-bach. At an early age he started writing poetry, gaining his first success with a pryddest entitled 'Gostyngeidd-rwydd' in an eisteddfod held under the auspices of the Baptist
EVANS, THOMAS (1897 - 1963), alderman, education and hospital administrator Born in Twyn Carno, Rhymney, Glamorganshire, 9 September 1897, son of William Evans, miner, and Catherine, his wife; his father came originally from Hirwaun, Aberdare, though his roots were in Cardiganshire. Thomas was educated at elementary schools in Rhymney, but left at the age of 12 to work in a brickworks at Rhymney. He afterwards became a miner and worked for 14 years underground at the

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