Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath is said by Browne Willis (who wrote in 1721 during Evans's lifetime) to have been born at Plas Du, Llanarmon, Caernarfonshire. Needless to say, he was not one of the Owens, original owners of Plas Du, two of whom figure elsewhere in this work, for they had left the place before his time. Where exactly his family came from is far from clear. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), in Y Brython, iv, 422
EVANS, JOHN (Y Bardd Cocos; 1827? - 1888), eccentric and poetaster guise he would turn up punctually at national eisteddfod meetings. They also conducted a fabricated correspondence between him and queen Victoria, to whom he proposed marriage. His 'poems' have probably been augmented by tradition. Benefactors would get them printed in leaflet form and the bard would hawk them around the fairs. A selection, with a good introduction by Thomas Roberts (Alaw Ceris), was
EVANS, JOHN (c. 1680 - 1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian The son of John Evans (1628 - 1700) by Katherine, widow of Vavasor Powell and daughter of colonel Gilbert Gerard, governor of Chester castle for Charles I. He was born at Wrexham, educated at Dissenting academies at Newington Green (c. 1694) and Rathmell, Yorkshire, and studied the early Fathers under James Owen of Oswestry. He became chaplain to Mrs. Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, Salop, and shortly
EVANS, JOHN (d. 1779), Evangelical cleric, translator, and commentator Born at Meini Gwynion, Llanbadarn Odwyn (now Llangeitho), Cardiganshire. He is said to have been educated at Oxford, and to have graduated [but he cannot be identified in Foster's Alumni, and there has been considerable confusion between him and John Evans, 1702 - 1782 ]. His first curacy was at Llanarth, Cardiganshire; then he became curate at Plymouth, to be known henceforth as 'the parson of
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, JOHN (1702 - 1782), cleric and anti-Methodist Born at Meidrym, Carmarthenshire, 2 September 1702, son of Rice Evans and grandson of Thomas Price, vicar of Meidrym with Llanfihangel Abercowin for thirty-nine years; educated at Carmarthen grammar school and at Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated 26 February 1721/2, and is possibly the unidentified John Evans who, according to Foster, graduated in February 1725/6. In 1730 he received
EVANS, JOHN (I. D. Ffraid, Adda Jones; 1814 - 1875), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born at Llansantffraid Glan Conwy, 23 July 1814. He attended Thomas Lloyd's school at Abergele for a few months in 1824, and in 1830 went for a short time to John Hughes's school at Wrexham. He began work in his uncle's shop at Glan Conwy when he was 11 years of age, where, apart from his term at Wrexham, he remained his whole life. He acquired control of four other concerns - a nail factory, a
EVANS, JOHN (1628 - 1700), Puritan schoolmaster and divine of his own wife he married Powell's widow. Under the Declaration of Indulgence he was licensed (May 1672) to preach to the Independent congregation at Wrexham that had first gathered round Morgan Llwyd, now meeting in a barn rented from Edward Kenrick, while the minister lived in the house in which John Jones the regicide had formerly accommodated Llwyd, and still belonging to the regicide's son
EVANS, JOHN (1779 - 1847), cleric, afterwards Calvinistic Methodist minister Born October 1779 at Cwm-gwen, Llanfihangel Iorath parish, Carmarthenshire, son of John and Rachel Evans. He was brought up as an Independent but, after hearing David Jones (1736 - 1810) of Llan-gan preach at Gwaun Ifor, he joined the Methodists there, and later at New Inn. He was educated by some of the local clerics and afterwards opened his own school at Llanpumpsaint where, in 1796, he began
EVANS, JOHN (d. 1830), printer - see EVANS
EVANS, JOHN (d. 1840), printer - see EVANS
EVANS, Sir JOHN (1823 - 1908), archaeologist - see EVANS, LEWIS

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