Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, ANNIE FLORENCE (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary ' was torpedoed in the North Sea. Florrie looked after her mother until she died in 1929. After this, she moved to Cardiff, and by 1935 she was living alone at 11 Cefn Carnau Road, Heath, where she remained for the rest of her life. Park End, which she probably attended, was the nearest Presbyterian church, and it was there that Evan Roberts worshipped in this period after he returned to Wales in 1927
EVANS, ELLIS (1786 - 1864), Baptist minister and author of Cefn-mawr, Denbighshire, where he remained until his death, rendering yeoman service to his denomination as a preacher, writer, and organizer. Besides building up his own church he figured prominently in founding nine other churches in the immediate vicinity. Among his many publications are the following: Unoliaeth a Gweledigaeth yr Eglwys, sef, Llythyr Cymanfa Cefn Mawr, 1828; Arddangosiad Syml
EVANS, EVAN (1773 - 1827), Baptist minister a Baptist cause in that town; in the same year, he began preaching at Cefn-mawr (Ruabon), and also at Northop (the first Baptist cause in Flintshire); and in 1805 (in which year he was ordained minister at Cefn-mawr) he visited Liverpool and there founded a Welsh cause whose adherents still ranked as members at Cefn-mawr down to 1810. In 1815 he revived the Baptist cause at Rhos-llannerch-rugog
EVANS, OWEN (1808 - 1865), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Neath, and (2) to Margaret Harries of Penderyn, a descendant of Siôn Llewelyn, one of the founders of the Old Meeting House. Apart from articles for the Ymofynydd he published sermons on Temporal Judgments, 1846, and a translation of a sermon preached by the Rabbi Raphael of Birmingham on the Unity of God, 1846, He died 9 January 1865 and was buried in the Old Meeting House cemetery at Cefn Coed.
EVANS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (Cadrawd; 1846 - 1918), antiquary and folk-lorist . Mrs. Mary Pendrill Llewelyn, the vicar's wife, encouraged the boy to browse in the vicarage library, and her championship of the traditional story of the ' Maid of Cefn Ydfa ' was implicitly accepted by her protégé in all his writings; even in 1894 he defended the tradition against the criticisms of Dafydd Morgannwg (D. W. Jones). He became a blacksmith; though in his early years he twice went to
EVANS, TITUS (1809 - 1864), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster of Llandysul and worked in a lawyer's office at Llandysul and Swansea. Life as a lawyer's clerk did not, however, appeal to him and, once again, he sought out Owen Evans, who was now at Cefn-coed-y-cymer - the two were related to each other. He had already changed his tenets. He passed into Carmarthen College, where he remained for four years (1844-8). He was ordained minister of Rhyd-y-parc, near
EVANS, WILLIAM, Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer Hardly anything is known about him (see the rather confused correspondence in Ymofynydd, December 1887, 268-70, 275-6, January 1888, 19-20, and February 1888 43-4), except that he hailed from Cefn-gwili, Llanedy, Carmarthenshire, and according to W. D. Jeremy was at Carmarthen Academy 1768-72. At the beginning of 1776 he was minister at Sherborne, but in March he accepted a call to
EVANS, WILLIAM (Cawr Cynon; 1808 - 1860), colliery official and poet Plymouth works for Anthony Hill (see the article on that family). He died 15 November 1860, and was buried in Cefn Coed cemetery.
EVANS, WILLIAM GARETH (1941 - 2000), historian and university lecturer in education sons. Their Aberystwyth home was at 'Berwyn', 37 Cefn Esgair, Llanbadarn Fawr. The younger son Rhys Evans is the author of the highly acclaimed biography Gwynfor: Rhag Pob Brad published by Gwasg y Lolfa in 2005. Gareth Evans died at his home on 28 March 2000, after a long and brave battle against cancer.
FARRINGTON, RICHARD (1702 - 1772), cleric and antiquary The son of Robert Farrington of Chester and Elizabeth (Jones) of Cefn Ysgwydd, Llechylched, Anglesey. In 1720 he entered Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1724. His first charge as curate may have been at Gresford, whence he removed to Bromfield. In 1739 he became attached to St Asaph Cathedral. In 1741 he was appointed vicar of Llanwnda-cum-Llanfaglan, residing at Dinas. In 1742
FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar , Llanllwchaearn, and Ruthin, in the diocese of St Asaph. His only incumbency was the rectory of Cefn, near S. Asaph, which he accepted in 1901. In the same year he became librarian of the cathedral library, a manuscript catalogue of which he compiled. In 1916 he was made canon of the cathedral, and in 1927 chancellor. He was appointed Welsh examining chaplain to archbishop Edwards in 1921; he had been Welsh
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher issued from his press were Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1873, Y Mabinogion Cymreig, 1880, Iolo Manuscripts, 2nd ed., 1888, Philip Yorke, The Royal Tribes of Wales, 1887, and John Fisher, The Cefn Coch MSS., 1899. He published some outstanding biographies, including those of Thomas Charles Edwards, John Hughes (1827-1893), Daniel Owen the novelist, John Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog), and the poems and letters of

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