Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
EVANS, JOHN HUGH (Cynfaen; 1833 - 1886), Wesleyan Minister Born 12 July 1833 at Ysgeifiog, Flintshire, son of John Evans (Ioan Tachwedd,). He was educated at the local National school and later (because of a disagreement about learning the catechism) at the British school, Lixwm. He became the schoolmaster at Ruthin workhouse in 1853 and was admitted to the ministry in 1860. He was appointed to the Bangor circuit in order to assist Samuel Davies (1818
EVANS, JOHN JAMES (1894 - 1965), teacher and writer Born 21 April 1894 in Tŷ Capel-y-Bryn (U), Cwrtnewydd, Cardiganshire, the son of Enoch Evans, Bwlchyfadfa, Talgarreg, and his wife, Mary Thomas, whose mother came from Llanwenog and who had moved to the chapel house when she lost her husband as a young man. John Evans, the minister at Capel-y-Bryn, had a great influence on J.J. Evans. He was educated at the village primary school to which David
EVANS, JOHN JOHN (1862 - 1942), journalist
EVANS, JOHN RHAIADORE (1790? - 1850?), surgeon
EVANS, JOHN RICHARDS (1882 - 1969), minister (Presb.) and author
EVANS, JOHN SILAS (1864 - 1953), priest and astronomer
EVANS, JOHN THOMAS (1869 - 1940), rector - see WADE-EVANS, ARTHUR WADE
EVANS, JOHN VICTOR (1895 - 1957), barrister-at-law Social Service. He had married in April 1927 Katherine Mary, daughter of the Rev. Henry Dawson of Streatham. Their only child, John, died suddenly in 1938. Evans had been very happy in his work at Aberdare but the loss of his son proved a shattering blow. In 1939 he resigned his post at the Settlement and returned to London. In the meantime World War II supervened and he took a post in the Ministry of
EVANS, JOHN WILLIAM (1857 - 1930), geologist - see EVANS, WILLIAM

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