Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, DAVID TUDOR (1822 - 1896), journalist secretary of Narberth district Sunday school union. Evans gave up his shop to establish at Haverfordwest (1847) a Liberal weekly newspaper, The Principality, which he transferred to Cardiff (1848) with Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd, 1820 - 1852) as editor. The same year differences on educational policy led to the editor's resignation, and two years later the paper ceased publication, the venture leaving
EVANS, ERNEST (1885 - 1965), county court judge, M.P. Circuit. He served with the R.A.S.C. in France during World War I and was promoted to the rank of Captain. From November 1918 to December 1920, he was a private secretary to David Lloyd George. In 1921, M.L. Vaughan Davies, an out-and-out Tory who sat as the Liberal M.P. for Cardiganshire from 1895, was created a peer, with the title Lord Ystwyth of Tan-y-Bwlch. With Lloyd George's support, Evans fought
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd; 1795 - 1855), cleric and poet the liberal school of Gwallter Mechain which attacked the classical metres and began to write pryddestau and lyrics. His poems were influenced by the English 'churchyard school' - Gray, Robert Blair, and Edward Young - and his hymns by English hymn-writers like Watts.
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician chapel, where his father was a deacon, in the liberal-radical, internationalist version of the nonconformist tradition. He adhered to that tradition's values throughout his life and relied heavily on ministerial friends at times of crisis and in making decisions. This inheritance is probably what accounts for the moral seriousness, missionary zeal and self-sacrificing commitment which typified him in
EVANS, HENRY TOBIT (1844 - 1908), schoolmaster, journalist, and author -1902. He was editor of the Carmarthen Journal from June 1898 at latest, to 1904. He was honorary secretary of the Cardiganshire Liberal Unionist Association, and a visiting magistrate for Carmarthen gaol. He was referee for the orthography of the Ordnance Survey maps of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, and Cardiganshire. He wrote Y Berw Gwyddelig, 1889, but is better known for Rebecca and her
EVANS, IOAN LYONEL (1927 - 1984), Labour politician elections in the 1950s - in 1955 and 1959. He was a JP for Birmingham, 1960-70, and for Middlesex from 1970. He served as the Labour MP for the Yardley constituency, 1964-70, when he was defeated by his Conservative opponent Derek Coombs, and subsequently, as the successor to Arthur Probert MP, for Aberdare, 1974-83, and the re-named Cynon Valley constituency from 1983 until his premature death. From 2
EVANS, JOHN (1858 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and professor at the Memorial College, Brecon Born 12 May 1858 at Erwan Fach, Llangrannog, Cardiganshire, son of David and Eleanor Evans. He had very little formal education in childhood though he did for a while attend the school held by ' Cranogwen ' at Pontgarreg. After the 1868 general election the family was ejected from their home because the father had voted for the Liberal candidate, and they moved to Pant-teg farm near New Quay
EVANS, JOHN VICTOR (1895 - 1957), barrister-at-law accomplished orator and in the general election of 1929 he contested Pontypridd as a Liberal, polling 37% of the vote and coming second to T.I. Mardy Jones in a three-cornered contest. He again entered the lists as the Liberal candidate in the Merthyr Tydfil by-election of 1934, coming second to S.O. Davies in a four-cornered contest, again polling a respectable vote of over 10,000. In 1930 he was appointed
EVANS, PETER MAELOR (1817 - 1878), publisher Liberal in politics and played a prominent part in the public life of Holywell. He served on the board of guardians and was chairman of the local board. He met his death through an accident while attending the General Assembly of the Calvinistic Methodists at Aberystwyth, 29 May 1878.
EVANS, SAMUEL (Gomerydd; 1793 - 1856), editor Liberal journalists of his day. In 1852 he removed to the office of William Owen of Cardiff, where he edited Seren Cymru till it ceased publication at the end of 1852 and Y Bedyddiwr from 8 November 1854 till his death. He was also a Welsh scholar [and in 1830 was elected an honorary member of the London Gwyneddigion ]. In 1839 he published a revised edition of William Richards of Lynn's Welsh
EVANS, STEPHEN (1818 - 1905), Cymmrodor University College, Aberystwyth. He was an ardent eisteddfodwr and a liberal patron of Welsh musicians and composers. He was one of the foremost members of the London committee formed in connection with the visit of ' Côr Mawr Caradog ' to London in 1873 and when, partly through the enthusiasm caused by the choir's success, the Society of the Cymmrodorion was revived at a meeting in the Freemasons Tavern
FINCH, HAROLD JOSIAH (1898 - 1979), Labour politician secretary to the SWMF, and later the South Wales area of the NUM, 1935-50. Finch also served as a member of the Mynyddislwyn UDC, 1922-33, becoming its chairman in 1932-33. He was elected the Labour MP for the Bedwellty division, as successor to Sir Charles Edwards, in 1950 and he continued to represent the constituency for the next twenty years, retiring from parliament at the general election of June

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