Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, OWEN (1829 - 1920), Congregational minister and author to preach at Llanfyllin; be ministered at Berea (Anglesey), 1853-4, Maentwrog, 1854-6, Fetter Lane, London, 1856-63, Brymbo and Wrexham, 1863-7, Llanbryn-mair, 1867-81, and Fetter Lane (for the second time) together with King's Cross, 1881-1901. He retired from the ministry and lived in Liverpool, 1901-18, and London, 1918-20. In 1920 he received a Civil List annuity. He was chairman of the Welsh
EVANS, SAMUEL (1859 - 1935), chairman of the Crown Mine, Johannesburg, educational pioneer Born 10 February 1859, son of Richard Evans, farmer, Pant-y-garn, Ruabon, Denbighshire, he was educated at the Brookside School, Wrexham. After a period as proof-reader in the office of Hughes and Son, the Wrexham publishers, he joined the staff of Yr Herald Cymraeg in 1878 as a reporter; in 1880 he joined the staff of The Sheffield Independent, and in November 1883 became private secretary to
EVANS, THOMAS HOPKIN (1879 - 1940), musician eisteddfodic pronouncements and his articles on Welsh musical matters. His gifts as a conductor were publicly acclaimed when he received a personal message of congratulation from Delius, following an outstanding performance of that composer's ' Mass of Life ' at the Wrexham national eisteddfod concerts in 1933. The Delius Society honoured him with its vice-presidency, and he accepted an invitation to
EVANS, WILLIAM (1838 - 1921), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author moderator of the South Wales Association, 1897-8, and of the General Assembly, 1908. He died at Pembroke Dock 11 February 1921. He wrote Cofiant William Evans, Tonyrefail (Newport, 1892); An Outline of the History of Welsh Theology (London, 1900); The History of the South Pembrokeshire Calvinistic Methodist Churches (Wrexham, 1913), with O. S. Symond; Souvenir of the Dawkins Family, Pembroke, 1916; Memoir
EVANS, WILLIAM CHARLES (1911 - 1988), chemist and biologist honours in chemistry in 1931. Sir Ewart Jones, Wrexham, who also became a Fellow of the Royal Society and was Waynflete Professor of chemistry in Oxford, was a fellow student. Charles Evans completed his MSc under Professor J. Simonsen in 1934 before winning the Plat Scholarship to study for his doctorate (and to follow a substantial part of the medical course) at Manchester School of Medicine. Having
EVANS-WILLIAMS, LAURA (1883 - 1944), singer Blas Gogerddan ', which was particularly appropriate. Sixteen years later, at the Wrexham national eisteddfod, she sang the Chairing Song again, and received the unusual distinction of an encore. She was the first of all Welsh artists to broadcast from Savoy Hill. She visited the United States of America on a concert tour in 1926, and returned to Wales from London in 1940 to live at Colwyn Bay, where
EVERETT, ROBERT (1791 - 1875), Independent ministers The two brothers were born at Gronant, Flintshire, Robert in 1791 and Lewis 20 February 1799. Their grandfather was a Scot and their grandmother an Englishwoman; their father was the manager of a lead mine, a member of Trelawnyd ('Newmarket') congregation and a lay preacher. Robert Everett began to preach in 1809; he went to the grammar school at Denbigh and in 1811 to the academy at Wrexham
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher publications was the first edition, in three parts (1862-4) at one shilling each, of Cymru Fu, a collection of Welsh fables, romances, and traditions, which, with few exceptions (and the authors of these are all named), he wrote himself although there is no indication of this in the work itself; he later sold the copyright of this popular book to Hughes and Son, of Wrexham. In 1870 he published Enwogion
GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician Born at Denbigh, 24 January 1815, son of Thomas Gee, printer, and Mary Foulkes of Hendre'r Wydd. Educated at Grove Park school, Wrexham, and Denbigh grammar school, he was apprenticed to his father at the age of fourteen. When he had completed his apprenticeship he was employed from 1836 to 1838 by the firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, returning to his father's business at Denbigh in 1838
GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist Born in Rhostyllen, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, 24 January 1908, son of Charles Thomas and Frances (née Rabbit) Gittins. He was educated at Rhostyllen Infants School, 1911-15, Bersham Boys' School, 1915-20, Grove Park County School for Boys, Wrexham, 1920-25 and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1925-31. He entered energetically into student life at Aberystwyth, and became
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author lessons on the instrument by Gwendolen Mason whilst a student in London. Reference should also be made to his love of classical music, especially the works of Wagner; he possessed a large collection of records. Also, whilst in London he became an expert dancer of Scottish reels. He was admitted to the Gorsedd of Bards (Ovate Order in Literature) at the National Eisteddfod at Wrexham, 1933 and took the
GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800 - 1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid Wrexham eisteddfod in the year 1876 that I was licensed as Archdruid of the Gorsedd … of the Bards of the Isle of Britain' (Yr Eurgrawn, 1895, 127). From 1860 to 1894 he only missed one (Carmarthen) of these eisteddfodau. He began his long career as an adjudicator at a local eisteddfod (Llan-nerch-y-medd, 1835) and he was the official bard of the Aberffraw eisteddfod in 1849. He competed against Bardd

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