Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer Annual Radio Lecture The Personality of Wales was published in 1973. Surprisingly, none of his early publications relating to Wales appeared in R. T. Jenkins & W. Rees' Bibliography of the History of Wales (1962 ed.), and only two out of eight in P. H. Jones' 1989 edition. Despite relinquishing his parents' narrow religious faith in his teens, he retained throughout his life all the fundamental
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd; 1795 - 1855), cleric and poet bro estronawl'; there, too, he met a number of gentlemen and some clerics like Richard Richards (see Thomas Richards, 1754-1837) and John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri, 1770-1829), who persuaded him to seek holy orders. He studied at Aberriw ('Berriw,' Montgomeryshire) under Thomas Richards (1785-1855) for a time and then went to S. Bees College. He was ordained by the bishop of Chester and was licensed to
EVANS, JOHN (1830 - 1917), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and biographer -gofiant am naw a deugain o weinidogion ymadawedig Sir Aberteifi (1894), Hanes Methodistiaeth De Aberteifi, 1735-1900 (1904), Yr Ail Fyr-Gofiant (1908), and Y Trydydd Byr-Gofiant (1913) - all published at Dolgelley; he also edited Hanes Bywyd y Parch. Thomas Edwards, Cwmystwyth. His wife, Eleanor, was sister of Dan Jenkins of Llan-y-crwys, schoolmaster and poet.
EVANS, MORGAN (Cynllo Maesyfed, Cynllo Maelienydd; 1777? - 1843), cleric and poet June 1825 onwards he held the livings of Llanddewi'r Cwm and Builth besides. He died at Builth early in 1843. He was the author of An Elegy on the Death of the Rev. John Jenkins, M.A., late vicar of Kerry (Ludlow, 1830), and The Cambrian Muse habited in English Costume (Llandovery, 1840). Another work attributed to him is Awen-Gerdd Debygawl a Dynwaredawl, ar destun-ymadrodd Teetotalaidd
EVANS, Sir SAMUEL THOMAS (1859 - 1918), politician and judge were adversely affected by his decisions. Along with Sir Leoline Jenkins and lord Stowell he ranks as one of the principal builders of British prize law. S. T. Evans died 13 September 1918 and was buried at Skewen. He was an honorary Ll.D. (1909) of the University of Wales, and a freeman of Swansea and Neath. There is a bust of him by Sir G. Frampton, R.A., in the Royal Courts of Justice and there
EVANS, WILLIAM (1869 - 1948) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary . Jenkins, and he afterwards attended St. Helen's Road Board School, Swansea. He worked for a while as weigher at his father's mine before being apprenticed as a chemist. He began preaching under the ministry of G. Pennar Griffiths. He was a student in Watcyn Wyn's Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, and then went to Plymouth college (which later transferred to Bristol). He was accepted by the London Missionary
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author was by then 67 years old and quite frail. And he soon faced a major crisis in January 1981 when four stars of the Labour Party, Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers, decided to leave and create a new party, the SDP. Throughout Foot's leadership, the opinion polls insisted that he was not popular, and he was nicknamed Worzel Gummidge by politicians and the press alike. Labour's
GREY, THOMAS (1733 - 1810), Independent minister quarter sessions on 30 July 1762. Upon the death of Philip Pugh in 1762 he was called to be pastor of the Independent churches at Llwynpiod and Abermeurig, Cardiganshire. He married Letitia (née Jenkins), widow of Theophilus Jones of Blaenplwyf, Llanfihangel Ystrad, a local squire upon whose death in 1758 William Williams, Pantycelyn, wrote an elegy. They settled at Sychbant, Nantcwnlle, a farm on the
GRIFFITHS, VAVASOR (d. 1741), Independent minister and tutor paid him as tutor. In 1736 or 1737, Griffiths moved his home to Chancefield, on the outskirts of Talgarth, Brecknock, still retaining his pastorate, and teaching at Llwyn-llwyd as well as at Chancefield. His best-known pupils are Jenkin Jenkins and Richard Price, for it is very doubtful whether he ever taught Howel Harris and Williams of Pantycelyn, who were more probably pupils of David Price's
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector by the Rector, Evan Jenkins. Working with the Welsh clerics, notably Reverends Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') and John Jones ('Tegid') and drawing upon the research inspired by the Romantic revival and the translation work of William Owen Pughe who had recently died, Lady Charlotte began transcribing and translating into English eleven medieval Welsh tales (from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest / Red Book of
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter radio engineer, he played in a semi-professional group variously billed as The Panthers, The Black Velvets and The Wild Ones, often opening for big touring acts. In 1965, the group became The Iveys - after a street near Swansea High Street Station - with a stable line-up of Pete, second guitarist David Jenkins, bassist Ron Griffiths and drummer Mike Gibbins. They accepted an approach by would-be
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet Alun Jones y Cilie, Evan Jenkins and Dafydd Jones from Ffair Rhos, T. Llew Jones, John Roderick Rees, Gwynfil Rees, Pennant, and Professor Gwyn Williams, Bethel, Mynydd Bach. B. T. Hopkins was reluctant to publish a volume of his poetry, but eventually gave in to persuasion from friends. Since he had not kept copies of his poems, Dyfnallt Morgan, T. Llew Jones and D. Ben Rees had to search for them

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