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  • EVANS, DAVID LLOYD (1861 - 1912), shopkeeper, traveller, and musician Born 29 December 1861, son of Evan and Ellen Evans, Adwy-ddu, Penrhyndeudraeth, Meironnydd. He received his earliest musical training at classes conducted by John Roberts, Portmadoc, and by studying Gramadeg Cerddoriaeth (by Alawydd) and other works. His ' Can y Cryd ' and a duet, ' Mae'r byd yn llawn o ganu,' became popular, whilst his part-songs, ' Trig gyda mi,' ' Oleuni Mwyn,' and ' Tylwyth
  • EVANS, DAVID TECWYN (1876 - 1957), Meth. minister combination of scholarship, warmth and eloquence. He was also a popular lecturer in Welsh on topics such as the Book of Job, the Book of Jonah, the Welsh Bible, Ann Griffiths, and J. Puleston Jones. Many of his lectures were published as booklets. He was a very faithful disciple of John Morris-Jones and did much to popularise the new Welsh orthography in lectures and journals and through his book Yr iaith
  • EVANS, DAVID THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Baron Evans of Claughton), (1928 - 1992), solicitor and politician Born at Birkenhead on 9 February 1928, the son of John Cynlais Evans and Nellie Euronwy Griffiths. His grandfather, David Evans (who was the donor of the so-called 'black chair' won by Hedd Wyn at the Birkenhead national eisteddfod in 1917), left Anglesey in 1884 for Birkenhead where he established a thriving business as a builder; he built a large area of Claughton as well as the Welsh
  • EVANS, Sir DAVID TREHARNE (1849 - 1907), lord mayor of London, head of the firm of Richard Evans and Co., trimming manufacturers Born 21 April 1849 at Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, son of Thomas and Anne Evans, Glan-y-mychyd, he belonged to a family who for generations resided in Glamorgan, carrying on business as brewers and maltsters. Educated at Merton (Surrey) and in France, he entered the business of his uncle, Sir Richard Evans, and at 21 was elected a partner, later becoming head of the firm. In 1875 he became a
  • EVANS, DAVID TUDOR (1822 - 1896), journalist Born 3 February 1822 at Cilgynydd, Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, son of John Evans, minister of Pen-y-groes, (Pembrokeshire) and Hebron, (Carmarthenshire) Independent churches. Early in life he became a successful draper at Narberth, and devoted much time to educational work, gaining the commendation of R. R. W. Lingen (see the 1847 Report of Commissioners on Education in Wales) for his services as
  • EVANS, ELLEN (1891 - 1953), principal of the Glamorgan Training College, Barry Born 10 March 1891 at 17 Dorothy St., Gelli, Rhondda, Glamorganshire, the daughter of John and Ellen Evans, both of whom came to the Rhondda from their native Cardiganshire in 1871. Educated at Rhondda secondary school and at the Rhondda pupil-teachers centre, she entered the University College at Aberystwyth in 1911 and gained a degree in Welsh in 1914. Appointed a lecturer at the Glamorgan
  • EVANS, ELLIS (1786 - 1864), Baptist minister and author were published. His materials were later catalogued by James Spinther James, who also collected his letters, which are now in the Spinther MSS. in the National Library of Wales. His essays on the Apostolic Fathers are at the Baptist College, Bangor. He died 28 March 1864. His nephew Edward Ellis is separately noticed; [another brother, JOHN EVANS (1791 - 1855), known as ' Siôn Pen-rhiw,' was an
  • EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer him into contact with the archaeologist O. G. S. Crawford, future editor of Antiquity, and he returned to Aberystwyth to assist Fleure with contributions for the 14th edition of Encylopaedia Britannica, briefly also becoming his deputy editor of the Powys-land Club's Montgomeryshire Collections (Mont. Colls.). On his 23rd birthday, and benefiting from some insights given by Dr. Thomas Jones CH
  • EVANS, ERNEST (1885 - 1965), county court judge, M.P. of N.L.W. and a vice-president of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Evans specialised in agricultural law and he wrote, with Clement Edward Davies, An epitome of agricultural law (1911) and, on his own, Elements of the law relating to vendors and purchasers (1915) and Agricultural and Small Holdings Act. He married, in 1925, Constance Anne, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, draper, of Hadley Wood; at
  • EVANS, EVAN (1671 - 1721), cleric and missioner in Pennsylvania 1721. An account of his work (including also accounts of his Welsh fellow-workers), based upon S.P.G. records, will be found in two articles by J. A. Thomas in the Journal of the Church in Wales Historical Society, 1954 and 1955. David Williams (Wales and America, Cardiff, 1946, 80-1) points out that Evan Evans's grandson, Oliver Evans, an inventor, was the first to build a steam-engine in the U.S.A.
  • EVANS, EVAN (1851 - 1934), eisteddfodwr, and secretary of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1922, in the honorary Ll.D. bestowed on him by the University of Wales in 1922, and in the award to him in the same year of the Cymmrodorion medal. He was knighted in 1909 and in 1922 was made a Companion of Honour. He was a man of massive and dignified bearing, with a leonine head and a genial smile. His wife, Annie Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Beale, Oxford, died in 1898, and he was survived by a
  • EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Fardd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir; 1731 - 1788), scholar, poet, and cleric Llanfair Talhaearn for the remainder of the time. During this period he was busily engaged in collecting and copying Welsh manuscripts of literary and historical interest and so came into touch with others who were doing the same thing, e.g. David Jones of Trefriw (1708? - 1785), John Thomas (1736 - 1769), Rhys Jones of Blaenau, Richard Roberts, translator of Y Credadyn Bucheddol, 1768, Robert Thomas