Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, GRIFFITH (1835 - 1935), microscopist, bacteriologist, and pioneer of protozoon pathology .(Wales) in 1919. He married, 26 October 1870, Catherine Mary (1843 - 1923), only child of John Jones, surgeon, of Gelli, Llanfair Caereinion, and grand-daughter of Owen Jones of Gelli (1787 - 1828. They had one son and four daughters. He died 7 December 1935.
EVANS, GRIFFITH IFOR (1889 - 1966), surgeon and pioneer of the Christian Faith Healing Movement in Wales . He graduated in medicine in 1916. Following a period of three years war service with the R.A.M.C., he gained the M.A. and D.M. in 1919, and the F.R.C.S. in 1921. With such a remarkable academic record it is somewhat surprising that he did not seek a consultant post in one of the London hospitals. However he came to Caernarfon in 1926 to join Dr. Lloyd Roberts in general practice at 37 Castle Square
EVANS, GRUFFYDD (1866 - 1930), cleric and antiquary Newcastle Emlyn, and died there, suddenly, on the afternoon of Sunday, 30 March 1930. He married Mary Roberts (1873-1962) in 1899, and they had six children: John Gruffydd, Heilin Telitor, Edward Meldred, Elined, Merlys and Herber Prestyl. He was keenly interested in folk-lore, and wrote much upon it (and upon other matters) in periodicals. But he will be more worthily remembered for his substantial
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician Gwynfor Evans was born on 1 September 1912 at Y Goedwig, 24 Somerset Road, Barry, the eldest of the three children of Daniel James ('Dan') Evans (1883-1972), an industrious and highly successful shopkeeper, and Catherine Mary (née Richard) (1879-1969), herself a shopkeeper from a chapel-going London Welsh background, originally from Cydweli. Gwynfor Evans was above all the product of Welsh
EVANS, ILLTUD (1913 - 1972), Catholic priest Illtud Evans was born on 16 July 1913, the son of David Spencer Evans, a postmaster, and his wife Catherine (née Jones). Despite being born in Chelsea, he came from Welsh nonconformist stock. His given names were John Alban. He attended Towyn Grammar School in Merionethshire, meaning that he grew up bilingual. He was also academically gifted; he entered St David's College Lampeter in 1931 as
EVANS, JOHN (Y Bardd Cocos; 1827? - 1888), eccentric and poetaster guise he would turn up punctually at national eisteddfod meetings. They also conducted a fabricated correspondence between him and queen Victoria, to whom he proposed marriage. His 'poems' have probably been augmented by tradition. Benefactors would get them printed in leaflet form and the bard would hawk them around the fairs. A selection, with a good introduction by Thomas Roberts (Alaw Ceris), was
EVANS, JOHN (1796 - 1861), schoolmaster , where the youth of the neighbourhood received a practical education for over forty years. Among his pupils were Lewis Edwards, Henry Richard, David Charles Davies and Ieuan Gwyllt (John Roberts). When Lewis Edwards kept a school in Aberystwyth he did not consider it to be in competition with but, rather, preparatory to Evans ' school. The school had a good name for the teaching of navigation. Evans
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1817), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter trust deed of Adwy chapel in 1804) is described as a ' tallow-chandler.' In 1744 he married Margaret, daughter of the poet Morris Roberts (died 1723?), of Llanuwch-llyn; their daughter married William Edwards (1773 - 1853), the hymn-writer. In 1745, Evans was admitted into the newly formed Methodist society at Bala, and soon began to itinerate in the surrounding country, but it was not till 1765 that
EVANS, JOHN CASTELL (1844 - 1909), science teacher Born 20 July 1844 at Castell-y-Waun, Tregastell, Llanuwchllyn, son of John and Catherine Evans. He was for a time pupil of the Rev. Thomas Roberts (Scorpion), in the school he kept at the Old Chapel, Llanuwchllyn, and is said to have attended the Bala grammar school for a period. As a boy he was particularly intelligent and alert, especially in mathematics. He took a great interest in the
EVANS, JOHN EMRYS (1853 - 1931), South African banker Born at Bron-y-berllan, Denbighshire, 1853, son of Emrys Evans, Calvinistic Methodist minister. He became a bank official and went to South Africa in 1882. During the South African war he was financial adviser to the commander-in-chief (lord Roberts); in August 1900 he was made controller of Transvaal treasury and later auditor-general of the Transvaal. He was a director of Barclay's Bank
EVANS, JOHN HUGH (Cynfaen; 1833 - 1886), Wesleyan Minister - 1891) in the bookroom. Thereafter he worked in Birkenhead (Liverpool circuit) (1863), London (1866), Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (1869), Rhyl (1872), Liverpool (1875), Caernarvon (1878), Dolgelley (1881), Manchester (1882), and Llanrwst (1885). He married Maria, daughter of Issachar Roberts of Liverpool, formerly of Mold (1864). He published essays in Y Geninen on taste and criticism, 1883; the democracy
EVANS, JOHN RHAIADORE (1790? - 1850?), surgeon Born in Glantanat Isaf, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, and educated at Oswestry Grammar School. He was tutored by Hugh Roberts, a surgeon at Llanfyllin and then became Sir Benjamin Brodie's pupil. He became the chief medical officer of Bangor Hospital and subsequently a lecturer in surgery and one of the medical officers of the Middlesex Hospital and the Royal Metropolitan Infirmary. He was the author

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