Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, ARISE (fl. 1607-1660), prognosticator Born about 1607 in Llangelynin parish, Meironnydd, according to Haul, 1940, 170, at the house of Ynys-faig, he was apprenticed to a tailor at Wrexham, where he was first called Arise (henceforth he felt there was a special message to him in every Scripture verse that contained the word). He had seen visions and dreamt dreams before he left his old home, and these were accentuated when he went to
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor short one it brought Clifford Evans into the limelight. In summer 1933, he played the role of Everyman in Welsh, 'Pobun', at the Wrexham Eisteddfod. This was made possible by the work of Lord Howard de Walden, long a supporter of a Welsh National Theatre. Following his West End debut, he was cast in John van Druten's The Distaff Side with Sybil Thorndike, completing a three-month run in London and
EVANS, DAVID (1886 - 1968), Professor of German and author some three months a teacher at Wrexham and then became a lecturer at the University of Birmingham until his appointment on 24 September 1920 as an Independent Lecturer and Head of the Department of German at Aberystwyth. Despite the prevailing hatred towards Germany and its people, he succeeded in creating a particularly lively department and his name symbolised the new interest being awoken in the
EVANS, DAVID TECWYN (1876 - 1957), Meth. minister , at the beginning of his career, he went on a preaching tour of America, and again in 1913. He was minister at Aberdovey 1902, Llanddulas 1904, Portdinorwic 1907, Conwy 1910, Llanrwst 1911, Birkenhead 1914, Wrexham 1919, Rhyl 1922, Bangor 1925, Llandudno 1928, Tregarth 1931, Abergele 1936, Aberdovey 1939. In 1941 he became supernumerary and moved to Rhyl where he died 27 October 1957. He married
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer E. Estyn Evans was born 29 May, 1905, opposite Darwin's birthplace in Mount Street, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury. As a teenager, his father, George Owen Evans (1865-1921), had worked in claypits and coalmines around Acrefair near Ruabon, Denbighshire, before entering Bala CM ministrial training college. His mother, Elizabeth (1864–1944), formerly an apprentice milliner in Wrexham, was the eldest of
EVANS, EVAN (1671 - 1721), cleric and missioner in Pennsylvania Born at Carno, Montgomeryshire, in 1671. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1695 (M.A. and D.D. 1714). From 1696 till 1700 he was curate at Wrexham, but he went out to Pennsylvania, as rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, in 1700. The most interesting feature of his work there is his vigorous Anglican mission-work among the Welsh Quakers in the colony; in 1706, a contemporary says
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd; 1795 - 1855), cleric and poet grammar school at Llanrwst. After leaving school he returned home to work on the farm. The new stewards of the Gwydir estate raised the rent of the farm, with the result that his parents could not pay their way and became impoverished. In 1816 he went to Tal-y-bont, Caernarfonshire, as master of a day school. At the Wrexham eisteddfod, 1820, he won the prize with his awdl 'Hiraeth Cymro am ei wlad mewn
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1817), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born at Glan'rafon, Wrexham, 30 October 1723; his parents removed in 1727 to Adwy'r Clawdd - it was John Evans who gave the land on which Adwy chapel, the first Methodist chapel in North Wales, was built, 1750-3. For a while he was a weaver, then a miner in the Minera lead-mines, but in 1742 he went to Bala and resumed the craft of weaving; later he was a book-binder, and later on in life (in the
EVANS, JOHN (c. 1680 - 1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian The son of John Evans (1628 - 1700) by Katherine, widow of Vavasor Powell and daughter of colonel Gilbert Gerard, governor of Chester castle for Charles I. He was born at Wrexham, educated at Dissenting academies at Newington Green (c. 1694) and Rathmell, Yorkshire, and studied the early Fathers under James Owen of Oswestry. He became chaplain to Mrs. Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, Salop, and shortly
EVANS, JOHN (I. D. Ffraid, Adda Jones; 1814 - 1875), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born at Llansantffraid Glan Conwy, 23 July 1814. He attended Thomas Lloyd's school at Abergele for a few months in 1824, and in 1830 went for a short time to John Hughes's school at Wrexham. He began work in his uncle's shop at Glan Conwy when he was 11 years of age, where, apart from his term at Wrexham, he remained his whole life. He acquired control of four other concerns - a nail factory, a
EVANS, JOHN (1628 - 1700), Puritan schoolmaster and divine , in ministering to the Dissenting congregation there, and with Vavasor Powell in sustaining similar conventicles at Llanfyllin and Llanfechain. For this he was denounced in 1669 under the Conventicle Act; Palmer (Nonconformists' Memorial, 1775, ii, 645) makes him also pastor of the Wrexham Independents from 1668. He formed a close friendship with Powell and after the latter's death (1670) and that
EVANS, MORRIS EDDIE (1890 - 1984), composer competing as a young man and won several eisteddfod prizes for hymn-tunes, including prizes at the National Eisteddfod in 1937 (Machynlleth) and 1977 (Wrexham); but the tune which secured him lasting fame is 'Pantyfedwen', to the words 'Tydi a wnaeth y wyrth, O Grist, Fab Duw' by W. Rhys Nicholas (1914-1996), which won a prize of £300 at the Rhys Thomas James Eisteddfod in Lampeter in 1968. The tunes has

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