Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, JOHN (1628 - 1700), Puritan schoolmaster and divine of his own wife he married Powell's widow. Under the Declaration of Indulgence he was licensed (May 1672) to preach to the Independent congregation at Wrexham that had first gathered round Morgan Llwyd, now meeting in a barn rented from Edward Kenrick, while the minister lived in the house in which John Jones the regicide had formerly accommodated Llwyd, and still belonging to the regicide's son
EVANS, JOHN (1779 - 1847), cleric, afterwards Calvinistic Methodist minister Born October 1779 at Cwm-gwen, Llanfihangel Iorath parish, Carmarthenshire, son of John and Rachel Evans. He was brought up as an Independent but, after hearing David Jones (1736 - 1810) of Llan-gan preach at Gwaun Ifor, he joined the Methodists there, and later at New Inn. He was educated by some of the local clerics and afterwards opened his own school at Llanpumpsaint where, in 1796, he began
EVANS, JOHN (d. 1830), printer - see EVANS
EVANS, JOHN (d. 1840), printer - see EVANS
EVANS, Sir JOHN (1823 - 1908), archaeologist - see EVANS, LEWIS
EVANS, JOHN, preacher - see EVANS, JOHN
EVANS, JOHN (1770 - 1799), traveller and Spanish colonial agent
EVANS, JOHN CASTELL (1844 - 1909), science teacher Born 20 July 1844 at Castell-y-Waun, Tregastell, Llanuwchllyn, son of John and Catherine Evans. He was for a time pupil of the Rev. Thomas Roberts (Scorpion), in the school he kept at the Old Chapel, Llanuwchllyn, and is said to have attended the Bala grammar school for a period. As a boy he was particularly intelligent and alert, especially in mathematics. He took a great interest in the
EVANS, JOHN CEREDIG (1855 - 1936), Calvinistic Methodist missionary, tutor, and author
EVANS, JOHN DANIEL (1862 - 1943), early colonist in Patagonia
EVANS, JOHN EMRYS (1853 - 1931), South African banker
EVANS, JOHN GWENOGVRYN (1852 - 1930), palaeographer - attacks of typhoid fever in early life had undermined his health, which throughout the greater part of his life continued to be precarious; his long residence at Oxford, where he lived for more than twenty years from 1880, was interrupted by a voyage to Australia and a sojourn at Davos. Attendance at (Sir) John Rhys's lectures on the Mabinogion, at Oxford, inspired him to study and transcribe the 'Red

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