Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1795), cartographer which they included. His son John Evans (1756 - 1846) reissued the maps and received an award from the Royal Society of Arts. The father died in 1795.
EVANS, JOHN (1770 - 1851), land surveyor, schoolmaster, and musician
EVANS, JOHN (1830 - 1917), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and biographer pastorate of Abermeurig, Cardiganshire, and remained there till his death, 24 January 1917. He was moderator of the South Wales Association in 1898-9. He published several books. The most important of these are his very valuable contributions (in biographical form) to the history of Calvinistic Methodism in Cardiganshire : Yr Offeiriad Methodistaidd (1891, on John Williams, 1754 - 1828, of Lledrod), Byr
EVANS, Sir JOHN (1823 - 1908), archaeologist - see EVANS, LEWIS
EVANS, JOHN (d. 1830), printer - see EVANS
EVANS, JOHN (d. 1840), printer - see EVANS
EVANS, JOHN, preacher - see EVANS, JOHN
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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