Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEAUMONT, JAMES (d. 1750), early C.M. exhorter A Radnorshire man, known to us only during the last ten years of his life. He was a member of the Independent congregation at Gore (near Old Radnor), but became attracted by Howel Harris, and began preaching. We find him in 1741 at Dilwyn (Herefordshire), preaching under the aegis of a Mrs. Marlow who lived there; and in 1741-4 he extended his activities to Leominster. At the Watford Methodist
EVANS, ALFRED THOMAS (Fred, Menai; 1914 - 1987), Labour politician had a son and two daughters. They made their home at Dilwyn Avenue, Hengoed. Fred Evans died at his home on 13 April 1987. His successor as Labour MP for Caerphilly was Ednyfed Hudson Davies.
EVANS, SAMUEL ISLWYN (1914 - 1999), educationalist Flight Lieutenant in Iceland and Northern Ireland. He met his wife, Mary Ellen Williams (1919-1993), an RAF nurse from Tŷ Croes, Ammanford, in London. They married in 1944, and had three children, Eryl Cydwel (b. 1946), Erfyl Dilwyn (b. 1950), and Wyneira Delyth (b. 1955). Islwyn returned to Sheffield University in 1946 and completed a first class honours in applied science followed by a doctoral
DILLWYN family This family seems to have originated from Dillwyn (or Dilwyn, but the name does not appear to be Welsh - see Ekwall, Dictionary of English Place-names), near Weobley, Herefordshire, but afterwards settled in Llangorse parish (Brecknock). After the death of a Jeffrey Dillwyn there (1677), some of his family used ' Jeffreys ' as a surname and migrated to Brecon; this branch had apparently died out

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