Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, HENRY (1753 - 1825), Baptist minister DAVIES II (1786? - 1862) was his co-adjutor and successor in the pastorate. The year of his birth is variously given; his tombstone implies 1786, but other statements put it at 1785 or even 1783. He began preaching in 1805, went to Abergavenny Baptist College in January 1809, and was ordained in 1811 as one of the four joint pastors of Llangloffan - at the time of his death, 23 August 1862, he was one
DAVIES, ZACCHEUS (fl. 1737-1770), writer of religious carols (halsingod) living at Moelfryn Mawr, Llanbadarn Trefeglwys, Cardiganshire, in 1770. His compositions are to be seen in NLW MS 609A. According to NLW MS 5705A, he was the author of Traethawd amy Farn published at Caernarvon in 1798, Can am Ddydd y Farn (Swansea, 1802), and Can am y Farn (Aberystwyth, 1809).
DILLWYN family VENABLES -LLEWELYN; on the Venables (a Cheshire family originally) see Williams, Hist. of Radnorshire (2nd ed., 383-4). Lady Venables-Llewelyn was the daughter of Richard Lister Venable (1809 - 1894), vicar of Clyro, who figures in the diaries of Francis Kilvert, and whose brother George Stovin Venable (1819 - 1888), classical scholar and writer in the Saturday Review, is in the D.N.B. - his fight with
EDWARDS, LEWIS (1809 - 1887), principal of Bala Calvinistic Methodist College, teacher and theologian Born 27 October 1809 at Pwllcenawon, Pen-llwyn, Cardiganshire, the eldest son of Lewis and Margaret Edward. He attended the local schools at Glanrafon, Pen-y-banc, and the Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Pen-llwyn. He was also educated at the Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn schools, at the school kept at Aberystwyth by John Evans (1796 - 1861), and at Llangeitho. In 1827 he opened a small school of his
ELLIS, ROBERT (1808 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 12 December 1808 at Celyn Isaf, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, son of Ellis Evans and his wife Jane Williams. The father had to decamp to Merthyr Tydfil in consequence of the ' enclosure riots ' at Llanddeiniolen in 1809, but returned to live at Garnedd, a squatter's cottage which he had erected on the common. At 18, Robert Ellis went to work at Cae-braichy-cafn quarry, but when about 20
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog , Hendre-mur, Llandecwyn. His heir was EVAN GRIFFITH, sheriff of Merioneth, 1770, whose wife was his cousin Mary, another member of the Anwyl family of Hendre-mur. Evan Griffith and Mary (Anwyl) left an heiress, MARGARET (died 1809), who married WILLIAM OAKELEY (1750 - 1811), son of William Oakeley, Forton, Staffs., clergyman. The heir of William Oakeley and Margaret (Griffith) was WILLIAM GRIFFITH
EVANS, ELLIS (1786 - 1864), Baptist minister and author Born 22 June 1786 at Pig-y-swch, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd, the son of Evan Ellis, a roadmender. He joined the Baptist church at Llanuwchllyn in 1806 and began to preach in 1809. Having attended the school of Jesse Jones, Ffordd-las, he proceeded to the Abergavenny Baptist Academy in 1811 and left there in 1813 to become an itinerant preacher and school-master. In 1814 he married Mary Jones
EVANS, GRIFFITH (1835 - 1935), microscopist, bacteriologist, and pioneer of protozoon pathology Born 7 August 1835 at Ty-mawr, Towyn, Meironnydd, the third child and only son of Evan Evans (1801 - 1882) by Mary (1809 - 1877), daughter of William Jones of Tyddyn y Berllan, Towyn. His father claimed descent from Merioneth families which have a distinguished record in Welsh history, numbering among his ancestors Lewis Owen, slain 1555 and Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, antiquary. Griffith Evans
EVANS, HENRY (fl. 1787-1839), Arminian Baptist minister Baptist Assembly at its meeting at Craig-y-fargod in 1809 (Monthly Repository, 1809, 695). It is still not clear that he had removed from Merthyr. In 1814, a ' W. Rees ' appears at Craig-y-fargod (Monthly Repository, 1814, 64 - note that these are minutes of the Unitarian Assembly). The church waned; the chapel was closed by 1830 and sold to the Independents in 1833 (Hanes Egl. Ann., ii, 311-12
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1817), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter become an incorporation of North Wales Methodist tradition, and it was appropriate that his reminiscences should be published by Charles in the Drysorfa, 1799, 1809-13 (separately reprinted, Machynlleth, 1885). Not less appropriate was it that John Evans, as 'the oldest and most respected man in the Connexion,' should open the first Calvinistic Methodist ordination service in North Wales, 19 June 1811
EVANS, JOHN (1779 - 1847), cleric, afterwards Calvinistic Methodist minister to preach. In 1798 he went to Carmarthen Presbyterian College, but the length of his stay there is not known. Some time c. 1808 he married a widow who lived at Llwynffottun, Llanegwad, in the vale of Towy. He was ordained deacon c. 1809 by bishop Watson of Llandaff and officiated for short periods as curate at Mynydd-islwyn, Newport, Monmouth, Bridgend, and Laleston, but, having roused antagonism
EVANS, THOMAS (Tomos Glyn Cothi; 1764 - 1833), Unitarian minister the first specifically Unitarian minister in Wales Gymysgedig, 1795; An English-Welsh Dictionary neu Eir-Lyfr Saesneg a Chymraeg, 1809; Cyfansoddiad o Hymnau, 1811, etc.; 'Y Gell Gymysg' is still in manuscript in N.L.W. He was, indeed, an apostle of freedom - political, social, and religious - and was one of the pioneers of those reform movements which were to have such an influence on the later history of Wales. He died 29 January 1833.

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