Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, CARADOC (1878 - 1945), author almost everything he wrote thereafter. His work includes five collections of short stories, My People, 1915, Capel Sion, 1916, My Neighbours, 1919, Pilgrims in a Foreign Land, 1942, The Earth Gives All and Takes All, 1946; five novels, of which the best is Nothing to Pay, 1930; a play, Taffy, 1923; and a posthumously published Journal. He also devilled for other writers. His best stories rank with the
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor and 1943. He appeared in the Welsh coal mining picture Proud Valley with Paul Robeson in 1940 and starred with Tommy Trinder as the Foreman in The Foreman Went to France in 1942, an early Ealing Comedy. In 1943 he married the actress Hermione Hannen (1913-1983). His career was put on hold in 1943 when, as a conscientious objector, he joined the Non-Combatant Corps. He directed and starred in
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar holder of the Mary Towyn Jones Scholarship, to study classics and Welsh. As a child he had played at 'holding services' on his own, and as he grew older, the life of the chapel and Sunday school developed into mature conviction and he was accepted as a ministerial candidate in the Presbyterian Church of Wales. He graduated in Latin and Greek in 1942 and with first-class honours in Welsh in 1943 having
EVANS, DAVID DELTA (Dewi Hiraddug; 1866 - 1948), journalist, author and Unitarian minister Pray ? Many of his books are kept in Bangor University Library, and also a letter praising Ymdaith y Pererin together with a cywydd from T. Gwynn Jones (1942) and a letter praising Rhedeg ar ôl y Cysgodion. He was fluent in Esperanto and Hindustani. He was a fierce debater and a fiery character.
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer Landscape, the People and their Work (1942), Mourne Country: Landscape and Life in South Down (1951), Irish Folk Ways (1957), Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland: A Guide (1966), and The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History (1973), together with a posthumous collection, Ireland and the Atlantic Heritage: Selected Writings (1996), in which Gwyneth Evans wrote 'A Biographical Memoir' of
EVANS, ERNEST (1885 - 1965), county court judge, M.P. lost the seat to Rhys Hopkin Morris in a three-cornered fight, with Lord Lisburne as the Conservative candidate. In 1924, he won the University of Wales seat in a contest against George M.Ll. Davies, the Labour candidate, and he held this seat until 1942. Evans was made a K.C. in 1937 and from 1942 until his retirement in 1957 he held the post of a county court judge. He was a member of the council
EVANS, GEORGE EWART (1909 - 1988), writer and oral historian Born 1 April 1909 in Abercynon, third son of William Evans (died 1942) of Pentyrch, shopkeeper, and first son of his second wife Janet, née Hitchings, of Llangynwyd. He came of a radical family and was named after William Ewart Gladstone; his own radicalism, fired by the suffering of the Welsh miners during the inter-war depression, took him further to the left and into the Communist Party. He
EVANS, GRIFFITH IFOR (1889 - 1966), surgeon and pioneer of the Christian Faith Healing Movement in Wales practice. He had a good singing voice, he was an elder at Engedi chapel and a lay preacher. In 1942-43 he was president of the North Wales Branch of the B.M.A., and in the same year he was High Sheriff of the County of Caernarfon. He was a man of wide culture and was interested in philosophy and theology as well as the sciences. As the years went by Griffith Evans was increasingly attracted to the
EVANS, HAROLD MEURIG (1911 - 2010), teacher, lexicographer . In 1942 he married Sarah (Sal) Walters from Llanedi. They had no children. After leaving the RAF in 1946 he returned to Caernarfon for one term before moving to teach in Bridgend and after one year there went back to his old school at Ammanford where he remained as Head of the Welsh Department till he retired in 1975. He gained his MA in 1937 for a dissertation on “Iaith a Ieithwedd y Cerddi Rhydd
EVANS, JANET (1894 - 1970), journalist and civil servant engaged in the intelligence section of the B.B.C. at Evesham, monitoring English broadcasts from foreign countries. During 1942-45 she travelled much in Wales as Woman Power Officer for Wales. She gave popular lectures, particularly on the London and American Welsh, and broadcast frequently in the series Gwraig y tŷ, Woman's Hour, and other programmes, c. 1947-54. She played a prominent part in Welsh
EVANS, JOHN (1858 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and professor at the Memorial College, Brecon invitation was renewed annually until he was appointed full time professor in 1905 and at the same time made financial secretary of the college (until 1942). He retained his chair until he retired in 1943 and received the title Professor Emeritus. He accepted modern forms of scholarship in discussing the Bible and Christian history. His theological liberalism may be perceived in his commentary on Paul's
EVANS, JOHN JOHN (1862 - 1942), journalist acted for a long period as interpreter at the assizes and the quarter sessions. He was the Vale of Clwyd correspondent for the Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool Echo, and the Manchester Guardian, for over fifty years. He married Margaret Evans of Henllan in 1864, and they had seven children. He died 22 April 1942 in Denbigh, as the result of an accident.

Search results

49 - 60 of 249 for "1942"