Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, MORRIS EDDIE (1890 - 1984), composer composer John Henry Roberts ('Pencerdd Gwynedd'). He acted as organist of Edge Lane chapel in Liverpool for 36 years and conducted the Gwalia Mixed Choir and the ATM Male Voice Choir. He spent his working life as a driver and salesman for Hughes Brothers of Aintree, meat purveyors. He lived in several different places in the Liverpool and Manchester area and for a short while in Prestatyn. He began
EVANS, PETER MAELOR (1817 - 1878), publisher had four sons and one daughter. Many notable works appeared from his press including the Welsh commentary by James Hughes (1779 - 1844) on the Old Testament. He commenced publishing Y Drysorfa in 1854, Y Traethodydd in 1855, and Trysorfa'r Plant in 1860. At the Mold eisteddfod in 1873 he won a prize for the best produced Welsh book, a volume of the sermons of Henry Rees. He was an enthusiastic
EVANS, SAMUEL (1859 - 1935), chairman of the Crown Mine, Johannesburg, educational pioneer Born 10 February 1859, son of Richard Evans, farmer, Pant-y-garn, Ruabon, Denbighshire, he was educated at the Brookside School, Wrexham. After a period as proof-reader in the office of Hughes and Son, the Wrexham publishers, he joined the staff of Yr Herald Cymraeg in 1878 as a reporter; in 1880 he joined the staff of The Sheffield Independent, and in November 1883 became private secretary to
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1863 - 1932), journalist Born in the parish of Cellan, Cardiganshire, 2 December 1863, the son of Evan Evans of Glanrhyd, Llanfair Clydogau, and Jane, formerly Hughes, of Pensingrig, Cellan. He began his career as a teacher in the school of his native parish but went to London to work as a clerk in 1882 and for fifty years was actively associated with Welsh life in the metropolis. He did much to revivify and popularize
EVANS, WILLIAM CHARLES (1911 - 1988), chemist and biologist Charles Evans was born 1 October 1911 in Bethel, near Caernarfon, Gwynedd, the third son of the five children of Robert and Elizabeth Evans; the father was a stone mason at Dinorwic quarry. After receiving his early education at Bethel primary school and Caernarfon Central and grammar schools, he won the John Hughes Exhibition to Bangor University College where he graduated with first-class
FAGAN, THOMAS WALLACE (1874 - 1951), agricultural chemist other grassland plants. He continued his researches to the end of his life, but did not receive the commendation which was due to him for his pioneering work, possibly because he was by nature unassuming, and reluctant to extol the value of his own researches. He married Helena Teresa Hughes, and they had one son. Fagan died in Aberystwyth, 10 February 1951, and was buried in the town cemetery.
FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar vice-president. His principal literary work, of which he was joint-author with S. Baring Gould, was The Lives of the British Saints (4 vols.) published by the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907-13. He had previously edited the Cefn Coch MSS., 1899. Later he edited Fenton's Tours in Wales for the Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1917, Allwydd Paradwys (by John Hughes, 1615 - 1686), 1930, and
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author previous marriage. Foot was an eloquent and powerful orator, and during his time as MP for Plymouth Devonport he became a prominent advocate of the left-wing movement associated with Aneurin Bevan, which was also supported by a number of Welsh MPs, such as George Thomas, Tudor Watkins and Cledwyn Hughes. However, a bitter disagreement arose between Foot and Bevan on the question of nuclear weapons. As
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher publications was the first edition, in three parts (1862-4) at one shilling each, of Cymru Fu, a collection of Welsh fables, romances, and traditions, which, with few exceptions (and the authors of these are all named), he wrote himself although there is no indication of this in the work itself; he later sold the copyright of this popular book to Hughes and Son, of Wrexham. In 1870 he published Enwogion
FOULKES, THOMAS (1731 - 1802), early Methodist exhorter . Only a week before his death, Owen Davies (1752 - 1830) and John Hughes (1776 - 1843) initiated the new Wesleyan mission in that town; Foulkes's death thus saved him from having to make a difficult decision.
GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician political, educational, and religious movements of the day. He died at Denbigh, 28 September 1898, and was buried in the new cemetery. He married October 1842, Susannah, daughter of John Hughes of Plas Coch, Llangynhafal; they had six daughters and three sons. He was succeeded in control of Y Faner by his son HOWEL GEE who died in 1903.
GOUGE, THOMAS (1605? - 1681), Nonconformist divine and philanthropist Hughes in the distribution of Welsh books. To carry out his work, he appealed for subscriptions throughout England and Wales, and in 1674, a 'trust' was organized which was supported by the chief religious leaders of the time. The schools, which ultimately reached a total of about 300, were set up 'to teach the poor Welsh children to read and write English, cast Accompts and repeat the Catechism.' Many

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