Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, OWEN (1829 - 1920), Congregational minister and author Born 19 November 1829 in Pen-y-bont-fawr, Montgomeryshire. He hailed from a deeply religious family - on his mother's side he was related to the hymnist, Ann Griffiths. He worked in a factory at first. He was received into church membership at Llanfyllin when he was sixteen. For a while he was at a school kept by Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd); later he himself kept school in the same place. He began
EVANS, OWEN ELLIS (1920 - 2018), Methodist minister and biblical scholar Owen E. Evans was born on 23 December 1920 in Barmouth, the son of Owen Jones Evans (1887-1926), pharmacist, and his wife Elizabeth Mary (née Jones, 1887-1961), owner of a small hotel. He had one older brother, John William. He spent the first five years of his life in Wimbledon, London, but the family was forced to move back to Barmouth in the summer of 1926 because of his father's illness. He
EVANS, RHYS (1835 - 1917), musician Caradog '; when Caradog (Griffith Rhys Jones) moved to Treorchy, Evans became conductor of the 'United Aberdare Choir.' He gave up competing and concentrated on the performance, with the aid of an orchestra, of large works by the masters. He was a good violin player and it was his practice to teach the various voices their parts by playing them for them on that instrument. He used also to write in the
EVANS, ROBERT (fl. c. 1750), poet He was parish clerk of Meifod and is said to have died in the almshouse about 1750. His most popular poem, ' Cerdd y Winllan,' together with two others, ' Ystyriaeth ar fyrdra oes dyn ' and ' Cerdd ar Ymadawiad Pachadur (sic) ai Oferedd ', were included by David Jones of Trefriw in his Blodeu-Gerdd, 1759. He wrote in a serious vein, chiefly on religious themes. It was he who taught his vicar
EVANS, ROBERT TROGWY (1824 - 1901), Congregational minister and author Born in the parish of Trefeglwys, Anglesey. He was licensed to preach in 1849, spent some time at the Bala (Congregational) College under Michael Jones (1787 - 1853), and took charge of a Welsh Congregational church at Manchester, being ordained there on 12 September 1853. At the end of four years he moved to Greenfield, Flintshire, where he ministered until he emigrated, in 1870, to the United
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, 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 (Telynog; 1840 - 1865), poet 'Blodeuyn bach wyf fi mewn gardd' and 'Yr Haf.' The latter is included in Blodeugerdd by W. J. Gruffydd. A collected edition of his work arranged by his friend Dafydd Morganwg (D. W. Jones) with a biographical sketch by Hywel Williams was published in 1866. He died 29 April 1865 and was buried in the Aberdare cemetery.
EVANS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (Cadrawd; 1846 - 1918), antiquary and folk-lorist . Mrs. Mary Pendrill Llewelyn, the vicar's wife, encouraged the boy to browse in the vicarage library, and her championship of the traditional story of the ' Maid of Cefn Ydfa ' was implicitly accepted by her protégé in all his writings; even in 1894 he defended the tradition against the criticisms of Dafydd Morgannwg (D. W. Jones). He became a blacksmith; though in his early years he twice went to
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1863 - 1932), journalist was the friend and supporter of the brilliant young men of his generation - Tom Ellis, David Lloyd George, William Llewelyn Williams, and Ellis Jones Griffith. A notable collector of Welsh books and books pertaining to Wales, he was also an authority on the history of Welsh societies and settlements in London. He was a member of the council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. A genial and
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1894 - 1965), local government officer and an administrator within the Baptist denomination , 813-14, 817). His part in presenting to the National Library the diaries of two former ministers, Hugh William Jones, ('Yr Utgorn Arian') and Evan Ungoed Thomas (NLW MS 1896-7E, NLW MS 1898D, NLW MS 1899C, NLW Minor Deposits 791-816, 827-866) was consistent with his efforts to preserve the sources of the history of Tabernacl church. He published the fruits of his own research many times in the
EVANS, THOMAS PENRY (1839 - 1888), Congregational minister Born in the Pant-teg district, Carmarthenshire. His early education was patchy and life for him in early youth was not easy. After working on farms in the neighbourhood he left, when eighteen years old, to work in the Cyfyng iron works, Ystalyfera. He was received into church membership at Gurnos, began to preach there in 1863, and went to Thomas Jones, Gwernogle, Carmarthenshire, to be prepared

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