Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, OWEN ELLIS (1920 - 2018), Methodist minister and biblical scholar Owen E. Evans was born on 23 December 1920 in Barmouth, the son of Owen Jones Evans (1887-1926), pharmacist, and his wife Elizabeth Mary (née Jones, 1887-1961), owner of a small hotel. He had one older brother, John William. He spent the first five years of his life in Wimbledon, London, but the family was forced to move back to Barmouth in the summer of 1926 because of his father's illness. He
EVANS, PETER MAELOR (1817 - 1878), publisher Born 10 April 1817, near Adwy'r Clawdd, Denbighshire, where his father, Thomas Evans, was a schoolmaster till he forsook teaching to manage lead mines. He received his early education at his father's school and afterwards at a day school in Mold and at Ruthin Grammar School, where he had a thorough grounding in the classics. He was intended for the law, but decided on printing as a career. He
EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Glamorgan. He visited Charles Proger at Wern-ddu, Llantilio Crossenny, and at his trial witnesses came from Llanfihangel Crucorney and Llangattock juxta Caerleon. As ' Captain Evans ' he stayed with Thomas Gunter of Abergavenny and preached in Welsh in his chapel in Cross Street where, it was said, '100's goe to Mass there when not 40 goe to Church'. In Glamorgan he visited Pyle and the houses of Howel
EVANS, RHYS (1835 - 1917), musician Caradog '; when Caradog (Griffith Rhys Jones) moved to Treorchy, Evans became conductor of the 'United Aberdare Choir.' He gave up competing and concentrated on the performance, with the aid of an orchestra, of large works by the masters. He was a good violin player and it was his practice to teach the various voices their parts by playing them for them on that instrument. He used also to write in the
EVANS, RICHARD THOMAS (1892 - 1962), Baptist minister and administrator Fund for the denomination. R.T.E.'s mother was a member of the Wesleyan church, a sister of a minister in that denomination, John Edward Thomas (1875 - 1959). R.T.E. was baptised at a young age in Bethlehem, Trealaw, but it was in Calfaria, Abercynon that he was prepared for the ministry. He received his early education at Trealaw, and thereafter at secondary schools at Porth and Mountain Ash; he was
EVANS, ROBERT (Cybi; 1871 - 1956), poet, writer, and bookseller Born 27 November 1871 in Elusendy, Llangybi, Caernarfonshire, one of the seven children of Thomas Evans, farmworker, and Mary (née Roberts). He was educated at the council school, Llangybi and after serving for a time on Eifionydd farms he was the local postman there for the greater part of his life. William Hugh Williams, ' Cae'r go ', was his fellow postman. He also sold 'books of every sort
EVANS, ROBERT (fl. c. 1750), poet He was parish clerk of Meifod and is said to have died in the almshouse about 1750. His most popular poem, ' Cerdd y Winllan,' together with two others, ' Ystyriaeth ar fyrdra oes dyn ' and ' Cerdd ar Ymadawiad Pachadur (sic) ai Oferedd ', were included by David Jones of Trefriw in his Blodeu-Gerdd, 1759. He wrote in a serious vein, chiefly on religious themes. It was he who taught his vicar
EVANS, ROBERT TROGWY (1824 - 1901), Congregational minister and author Born in the parish of Trefeglwys, Anglesey. He was licensed to preach in 1849, spent some time at the Bala (Congregational) College under Michael Jones (1787 - 1853), and took charge of a Welsh Congregational church at Manchester, being ordained there on 12 September 1853. At the end of four years he moved to Greenfield, Flintshire, where he ministered until he emigrated, in 1870, to the United
EVANS, SAMUEL JAMES (1870 - 1938), schoolmaster, educationalist, and author Born 4 August 1870 at Llandysul, Cardiganshire, the second son of David Evans, currier, and Margaret Jones. He was educated at the Tyssul grammar school, Llandysul, and at Aberystwyth University College, graduating B.A. (Lond.) in 1892 and M.A. in 1894. He married Annie, daughter of Thomas Griffiths, Aberystwyth (agent to the Nanteos estate), and had two sons. He was appointed in 1895 the first
EVANS, Sir SAMUEL THOMAS (1859 - 1918), politician and judge
EVANS, GERAINT LLEWELLYN (1922 - 1992), singer Geraint Evans was born on 16 February 1922 in William Street, Cilfynydd, the son of William John Evans (1899-1978), a coalminer, and his wife Charlotte May (née Thomas, 1901-1923). His mother died on the birth of a second child, and Geraint was raised by his mother's parents until his father remarried, and moved to Hopkinstown near Pontypridd when Geraint was ten. He left school at fourteen to
EVANS, THEOPHILUS (1693 - 1767), cleric, historian, and man of letters Hugh Jones (father of Theophilus Jones), but he held Llanfaes until his death, 11 September 1767. He was buried in Llangamarch churchyard. The hymnist William Williams of Pantycelyn was appointed his curate in 1740 but, as Theophilus Evans refused to recommend him for ordination as priest, he left in 1743. He married 1728, Alice, daughter of Morgan Bevan of Gelligaled, Glamorganshire, and they had

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