Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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ERBERY, WILLIAM (1604 - 1654), Puritan and Independent Newport, Monmouth, was preferred to the living of St. Mary and St. John, Cardiff. He remained there from 7 August 1633 until July 1638 (Foster's Index, N.L.W.). Together with Walter Cradoc he came into conflict with the bishop of Llandaff in 1634 on account of his Puritan activities. On 20 October 1635 Erbery and William Wroth appeared before the Court of High Commission to answer for their Puritanism
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog , Hendre-mur, Llandecwyn. His heir was EVAN GRIFFITH, sheriff of Merioneth, 1770, whose wife was his cousin Mary, another member of the Anwyl family of Hendre-mur. Evan Griffith and Mary (Anwyl) left an heiress, MARGARET (died 1809), who married WILLIAM OAKELEY (1750 - 1811), son of William Oakeley, Forton, Staffs., clergyman. The heir of William Oakeley and Margaret (Griffith) was WILLIAM GRIFFITH
EVANS family, printers also became owner and publisher of the Carmarthen Journal. He died 25 May 1830, aged 55. His widow survived until 19 January 1850. John Evans had three sons who became printers at Carmarthen - DAVID, JOHN, and WILLIAM. David Evans, the eldest son of John Evans, became the owner and publisher of the Carmarthen Journal in 1820, and continued to print that weekly newspaper up to the number for 18 July
EVANS, ALCWYN CARYNI (1828 - 1902), antiquary wife was Elizabeth Amelia Rees (died 1867), daughter of John Morgan, and widow of an innkeeper who kept the Castle Inn in Priory Street, Carmarthen, and for several years they kept the Castle Inn, and later the Bird in Hand, John Street, Carmarthen. They had no children. He married his second wife Mary (1835-1884) in 1870, she was the daughter of William Thomas, a Llandovery ropemaker who was the
EVANS, ARISE (fl. 1607-1660), prognosticator and William Aspinwall. During the stirring events of 1653-5 he managed to interview the Protector, but the pamphlets he wrote referred confidently to a Restoration; in 1653, indeed, he gave a forecast of the course of events in England following Cromwell's death that came remarkably near the truth. His Narrations, Voices from Heaven, and Echoes of those Voices, contain weird and impossible
EVANS, BENJAMIN (1740 - 1821), Independent minister higher Calvinism and embraced every opportunity of opposing the Arminianism and Unitarianism of the district, but towards the end of his life his Calvinism became more moderate. It was chiefly through his labours that the churches at Hawen, Glyn-arthen, Penrhiwgaled, Pisgah, and Capel-y-wig were founded, and he had charge of them. In 1788 he published Llythyrau at gyfaill, ar y pwngc o fedydd, which
EVANS, CARADOC (1878 - 1945), author Born at Pant-y-croy, Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, Carmarthenshire, 31 December 1878, and christened David, son of William Evans, auctioneer, and Mary (née Powell). He spent most of his childhood at Lanlas, Rhydlewis, and attended the board school there before he was apprenticed to the drapery trade. He worked as a shop assistant for some twelve years-in Carmarthen, Cardiff and London. In London he
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor National Theatre. Richard Burton came to play Konstantin in the first run of Chekhov's The Seagull in Wales. Although the season went well, the Grand was a large theatre to fill and Swansea Council discontinued the project. In 1951, as part of the Festival of Britain, Evans directed the Pageant of Wales, Land of My Fathers, in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. Glyn Houston was the narrator, and Evans had devised
EVANS, DANIEL (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792 - 1846), cleric and poet Marwnad Eliezer Williams, 1820; Englynion er cofiant Ifor Hael, Arglwydd Maesaleg, 1822; Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon, Cerdd, 1826; Ar ddylanwadau yr Yspryd Glan: ymadrodd ar y pwnc … wedi ei gyfieithu a'i dalfyrru gan … Daniel Evans, 1826; Palesteina: neu, Hanes yr Iddewon a Gwlad Canaan, 1841; Galar-Cerdd ar farwolaeth William Bruce Knight, Deon Llandaf, 1845; ' Cerdd Arwraidd ar y Gauaf,' which won for
EVANS, DANIEL (1774 - 1835), Congregational minister he spent the remainder of his life as a very successful minister and preacher. He succoured weak churches and started some new causes. He was a moderate Calvinist in his doctrine. He died 3 March 1835. He wrote biographies of Lewis Rees, William Evans of Cwmllynfell John Davies of Alltwen, and John Davies of Llansamlet, together with Lleferydd yr Asyn (Swansea, J. Harris, 1822), Y Cawg Aur (Swansea
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer Davies (Gwallter Mechain), in three volumes. He had meanwhile (1864) edited Y Marchog Crwydrad: Hen Ffuglith Gymreig and another edition of Y Bardd Cwsc, 1865. In 1868 he contributed translations to Skene's The Four Ancient Books of Wales. In 1869 he edited William Rowlands's Cambrian Bibliography; three instalments of an appendix to this publication appeared between 1870 and 1875 in Revue Celtique. In

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