Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, Sir DAVID EMRYS (1891 - 1966), educationist and translator The University of Wales, a historical sketch (1953). His main contribution however was the series of translations into Welsh of Plato's works: Amddiffyniad Socrates (1936), Phaedon (1938), Ewthaffron: Criton (1943), Gorgias (1946) and Y Wladwriaeth (1956). Sir Emrys read widely and discriminately in Welsh and thus gained a mastery of the literary language, which he wrote with classical accuracy and
EVANS, DAVID JOHN (1884 - 1965), minister (Presb.) and author Seion until his death. In 1943 he married Mary Muriel Williams, Aberystwyth; he died 1 May 1965. He came into prominence in 1926 when he published a handbook on the principal characters of the Old Testament - Prif gymeriadau'r Hen Destament - which had been rejected by his Association because of his liberal outlook. In 1935 he published Hanes Capel Seion, a very useful book of local history.
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician and also for the New Wales Union which was established to counteract the threats to Welsh life, particularly the Welsh language, arising from the war. He also thought hard about how Plaid Cymru should prepare itself for peace, for example in economic and industrial policy, fields where in his view there were major gaps. When J. E. Daniel resigned the party presidency in 1943, many, including
EVANS, IOAN LYONEL (1927 - 1984), Labour politician Ioan Evans was born at Llanelli in July 1927, the son of Evan Evans, a builder and clerk of works, and his wife. He was educated at Llanelli Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Swansea. He earned his living as a clerk for the Midland Bank, 1943-45, served in the army, 1945-48, and was a lecturer under the auspices of the WEA and the National Central Labour College from 1948-50
EVANS, JOHN (1858 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and professor at the Memorial College, Brecon invitation was renewed annually until he was appointed full time professor in 1905 and at the same time made financial secretary of the college (until 1942). He retained his chair until he retired in 1943 and received the title Professor Emeritus. He accepted modern forms of scholarship in discussing the Bible and Christian history. His theological liberalism may be perceived in his commentary on Paul's
EVANS, JOHN DANIEL (1862 - 1943), early colonist in Patagonia was one of the first settlers there in 1891. He spent the remainder of his life in Cwm Hyfryd and died there 6 March 1943 in his 81st year.
EVANS, LEWIS (1755 - 1827), mathematician Museum, was even more famous, for his excavations in Crete. In addition to the articles in the D.N.B. or its supplements on all these, there is a monograph on the family, Time and Chance, 1943, by Joan Evans.
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer September 1943, after a great deal of agonising, he decided not to continue with his course, and pursue a degree in philosophy which he completed with first class honours in the summer of 1945. He went on to gain an MA and to be President of the Student Council in 1946-7. Despite abandoning the ministry, he never abandoned his faith and continued to profess and practice his Christianity. It was during his
EVANS, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1904 - 1995), Calvinistic Methodist minister and professor of theology Catherine's Society. He graduated with honours in Theology in 1933. He followed a course of preparation for the ministry in Bala College 1933-4, and was ordained a CM minister to serve South Beach and Tarsis chapels, Pwllheli (1934-43), and then Bethesda, Gwylfa, and the English Church, Blaenau Ffestiniog (1943-53). In 1953 he was appointed Principal of Bala Preparatory College, and when that work was
EVANS, WILLIAM (Wil Ifan; 1883 - 1968), minister (Congl.), poet and writer in Welsh and English a prolific writer both in Welsh and English. Among his numerous published works are collections of poems: Dros y nyth (1913), Plant y babell (1922), Haul a glaw (1938), O dydd i ddydd (1927), Y winllan las (1936), A quire of rhymes (1943), Unwaith eto (1946), Difyr a dwys (1960); plays: Dreams come true (1916), Etifedd Arberth (1937); and prose: Here and there (1953), Y filltir deg (1954
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet Spanish mystic John of the Cross), and from then until 1948 he was a novice in Ireland, taking his first vows as friar in 1943. While there, he went to University College, Dublin, where he continued his Welsh education under Professor John Lloyd-Jones. However, the Professor advised him to switch to Greek and Latin, which he accordingly did at the end of the first year (Welsh may not have been his
FREEMAN, KATHLEEN (Mary Fitt; 1897 - 1959), classical scholar and writer their Nazis (1941), Voices of freedom (1943), What they said at the time: a survey of the causes of the second World War (1945), The murder of Herodes and other trials from the Athenian law courts (1946), Ancilla to the pre-Socratic philosophers, a complete translation of the fragments in Diel's Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1946), The Greek way: an anthology (1947), translations from verse and prose

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