Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, DANIEL (Eos Dâr; 1846 - 1915), musician Born in a thatched cottage called Tŷ Coch, near Carmarthen, son of Dafydd and Esther Evans. The family moved to Aberdare, where the boy began to work in a coalmine at the early age of 8. As the father was a printer in the office of Y Gwron and Seren Gomer, the son came to know such persons as Llew Llwyfo (Lewis W. Lewis) and others who worked in that printing office. When he was 11 years old he
EVANS, DAVID DAVIES (1787 - 1858), Baptist minister and editor . He died 29 August 1858 and was buried at Pont-rhyd-yr-ynn. Joseph Harris (Gomer had transferred the ownership and editorship of Seren Gomer to David D. Evans in April 1825; he, in turn, transferred it to his assistant, Samuel Evans (1793 - 1856), in 1834. He contributed much to periodicals, e.g. ' Adnoddau Cymru ' in Yr Adolygydd; he also wrote part of the biography of John Williams of Trosnant
EVANS, EVAN (1773 - 1827), Baptist minister Seren Gomer, 1821, 214. There were troubles in his congregation, for some members wished to invite Daniel Davies (1797 - 1876) to be their pastor; but the majority remained faithful to Evans, who in 1822 built a chapel at Moorfields. He died 2 February 1827 and was buried in Bunhill Fields.
EVANS, SAMUEL (Gomerydd; 1793 - 1856), editor Born at Llwyn-y-piod, near St Clears. In 1807 he was apprenticed to the printer John Evans, of Carmarthen. On the death of Joseph Harris (Gomer) in 1825 the office of Seren Gomer was removed to Carmarthen and in 1827 Samuel Evans was appointed associate-editor with D. D. Evans, becoming sole editor in 1835. He remained in this post till 1850, when he was acknowledged to be one of the foremost
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1894 - 1965), local government officer and an administrator within the Baptist denomination literature of the denomination, e.g. in the programme of the annual conference of the Baptist Union of Wales held at Tabernacl in 1937, and in his volume Fragrant memories: the story of two ministers, The Rev. John Thomas (1875-1891), The Rev. Evan Ungoed Thomas (1892-1930) (1941). He was treasurer of the county association (1939-55), and thereafter the treasurer of the Union; the president of Urdd y Seren
FRANCIS, JOHN (1789 - 1843), miller and musician Born 20 March 1789, son of William and Margaret Francis, Melin Rhyd-hir, Pwllheli. He learnt the rudiments of music (including harmony) and began to compose when still quite young. In Seren Gomer for November 1821 there appeared two hymn-tunes by him called ' Mwyneidd-dra ' and ' Gomer ' and in the same journal for March 1823 a hymn-tune called ' Pwllheli ' (but originally called ' Morwydden
FRIMSTON, THOMAS (Tudur Clwyd; 1854 - 1930), Baptist minister, historian and antiquary to Baptist periodicals, especially on Flintshire Baptists in Y Greal, 1907-10, 1917, and on Anglesey Baptists in Seren Gomer, 1925-6. Other works by him were published, e.g. Y Cyssonydd Ysgrythyrol, 1885; Crefydd ym Mhlwyf Rhiwabon, 1890; Ofergoelion yr Hen Gymry (n.d.); and Holwyddoreg Ysgrythyrol (n.d.); and he was a contributor to Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig. He also won two prizes for essays
GRIFFITHS, THOMAS (JEREMY) (Tau Gimel; 1797? - 1871), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster was buried in Alltyblaca cemetery. He published a memoir of David Davis of Castellhywel, 1828; Casgliad o Hymnau, a collection of hymns, twenty-nine of which had been written by himself, 1830; a periodical (one number), Yr Hanesydd, 1839; and a number of elegies and poems under the pseudonym Tau Gimel. He was a frequent contributor to Seren Gomer, Lleuad yr Oes, and the Carmarthen Journal.
HARRIS, JOHN RYLAND (Ieuan Ddu; 1802 - 1823), printer and author College which was close by. He wrote Cymorth i Chwerthin before he was twelve, and the book ran into a second edition. He was also a frequent contributor to Seren Gomer. When he was still only seventeen he formed a Cymreigyddion society at Swansea. His Grisiau Cerdd Arwest was written with the expressed intention of instructing people in the art of singing and was based on the works of Peck, Rippon, and
HARRIS, JOSEPH (Gomer; 1773 - 1825), Baptist minister, and man of letters . He kept alive the tradition of the revivalist preachers and worked zealously for the Welsh language and for congregational singing. In 1821 he published Casgliad o Hymnau, which included many of his own hymns; it was sold in his own bookshop. He also kept a day-school. He may be regarded as the father of the Welsh newspaper, for his Seren Gomer, 1814-15, was the first all-Welsh weekly. Although
HILEY, FRANCIS (1781 - 1860), Baptist minister 1860. He incorporated eight churches. He was a mighty preacher and Christmas Evans said, on one occasion, that he would never preach after him. In the doctrinal discussions of the day he favoured the Higher Calvinism - a result of his sudden conversion - and in 1823 he published a booklet Golwg Ysgrythurol ar Iawn Crist, because the treatise in its original form had been rejected by Seren Gomer.
HOWELL, JENKIN (1836 - 1902), printer, writer, musician and Dan Isaac Davies. He gave up shoe-making, and from 1854 till 1861 worked with his brother-in-law as a sawyer. But on the advice of his pastor Thomas Price (1820 - 1888) he became a printer, opening works of his own in 1867. His frequent contributions to the press won him repute in all parts of Wales - much poetry of his appeared in Yr Ymofynydd, Seren Gomer, and Y Geninen. He himself printed

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