Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, IOAN LYONEL (1927 - 1984), Labour politician . Evans was secretary to the Birkenhead Co-operative Party, 1950-53, and to the Birmingham Co-operative Party, 1953-64. He held a large number of public offices including serving as chairman of the Labour League of Youth from 1948 until 1950. He also served as the director of the Birmingham Printers Ltd, a co-operative venture. He acted as a Labour Party agent in Birmingham during two parliamentary
EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath . If we take it that the bishop was the Trofarth Evans, his birth would be in 1648; if the son of ' Bonner,' it would be 1651 or 1652. The rest of the story is plain sailing. In 1678 Evans went out to Bengal, as chaplain under the East India Co., but was transferred to Madras in 1692. In India, he seems to have feathered his nest diligently, but to have got on badly with the company's officials, who
EVANS, JOHN GWENOGVRYN (1852 - 1930), palaeographer Book of Hergest,' and from this study of old manuscripts (a by-product of which was his collection of Welsh proverbs, awarded the prize at the Liverpool national eisteddfod of 1884 and printed in its Transactions in 1885) arose the idea of a series of 'diplomatic' editions of mediaeval Welsh texts, the first volume of which appeared in 1887 - the nominal co-operation of Rhys was acknowledged on the
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer he had to leave school to start working at the local branch of the Co-operative. This was a formative period during which his desire to learn did not dwindle. Merêd and a group of friends regularly borrowed, read and discussed books on a range of substantial subjects. By 1938 he had begun the process of being accepted into the ministry and was preaching locally. During the same period, he
EVANS, SAMUEL (1859 - 1935), chairman of the Crown Mine, Johannesburg, educational pioneer Sir Edgar Vincent (lord D'Abernon), financial adviser to the Egyptian Government. In 1887 he became chief controller of the Egyptian Coast Guard Service, and in 1890 inspector-general of the Ottoman Bank. In 1897, as Sir Edgar Vincent's representative, he went to Johannesburg; in 1898 he became a partner in Eckstein and Co., retiring in 1902 to become chairman and managing director of the Crown Mine
EVANS, WILLIAM JOHN (1866 - 1947), musician orchestra won the chief prize at the Pontypridd national eisteddfod. The Mountain Ash male voice choir was victorious under his baton at the Albert Hall eisteddfod in London. He was co-editor of the Welsh congregational hymnal - Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol Newydd, 1921, and Caniedydd Newydd yr Ysgol Sul, 1930. Five of his own tunes were included in the former and his tune ' Rhys ', composed in memory of his
FITZ ALAN family, lords of Oswestry and Clun, and later earls of Arundel III, the earl marshal, and Llywelyn the Great in 1233-4, John supported the Crown and Oswestry was attacked by the Welsh. The marriage between JOHN FITZ ALAN II (1223 - 1267) and Isabel, one of the co-heirs of Hugh d'Aubigny, earl of Arundel, brought the honour of Arundel and the title of earl to the Fitz Alan family in 1243. Gwenwynwyn sought the aid of the lord of Oswestry against Llywelyn ap
FLYNN, PATRICIA MAUD (Patti) (1937 - 2020), musician, author, activist Gordon Theatre at Wales Millennium Centre, as well as other venues in south Wales. Patti and her fellow jazz singers also wanted to revive the interest in jazz in Butetown, to keep the tradition alive for future generations. With this in mind in 2009 she co-founded the Butetown Bay Jazz Festival with Humie Webbe, making Wales Millennium Centre its annual home every May Day. The festival programme
FOLLAND, HENRY (1878 - 1926), industrialist . Whilst walking home from there along the main railway line he was struck by a train and as a result had his left arm amputated, aged just fourteen. Thanks to the kindly interest of a schoolmaster at Waunarlwydd he was given training in shorthand and typing and became a clerk, working initially as office boy at the 'Cambria Daily Leader', a Swansea newspaper, then with Messrs. Leach, Flower and Co
FOSTER, IDRIS LLEWELYN (1911 - 1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar he tended to accord a lower priority to research and publication, although everything he did publish was characterized by profound learning and sure judgement: see, for example, his Rhys Lecture The Book of the Anchorite (1950), his chapter on early Wales in the volume Culture and Environment which he co-edited with Leslie Alcock (1963) and his chapter on the earliest poetry in the volume
FOTHERGILL family, iron-masters the agreement signed between them and Messrs. Scale of the Aberdare Iron Co., owners of the Llwydcoed iron-works, in 1804, for the use of the tramway to connect their works with the Neath canal. In 1807, he witnessed the deed, and appears to have acted as a mediator, at the dissolution of partnership in the Aber-nant works 1807, when they were taken over by Messrs. Tappenden from Jeremiah Homfray
FOULKES, ISABELLE JANE ('Issi') (1970 - 2001), deaf artist, designer and campaigner teacher at the time. After completing her MA in 1992, Issi started her own business as a freelance surface pattern designer with start up support from the Prince's Youth Business Trust. Initially she specialised in designing printed textiles for children's co-ordinated collections for the bedroom or nursery. Her designs stemmed from her love of the naïve decorative qualities found in fair-ground art

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