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EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar ready to acknowledge. D. Simon Evans died in Carmarthen on 4 March 1998. His wife, Frances (Evans) from Llanedi, Carmarthenshire, had predeceased him. They had one son, Dafydd, himself a recognised Welsh scholar.
EVANS, DAVID (Dewi Dawel; 1814 - 1891), tailor, publican, and poet Daniel Evans, 1939. He was particularly interested in the history of Talley parish with special reference to the ruined monastery and its bell, and at Talley eisteddfod, 24 April 1891, competed unsuccessfully for the prize offered for an essay on the history of the parish. Two of his sons were schoolmasters, Thomas Morgan Evans (1838 - 1892) at Cwm-du, and Dafydd Evans (1842 - 1893) at Talley. A
EVANS, DAVID (1778 - 1866), Baptist minister Not to be confused with another David Evans, who was minister at Ffynnonhenry (and at Priory Street, Carmarthen) from 1765 to 1793. Dafydd Evans was born at Nant-y-fen, Conwil Elvet, son of Stephen and Jane Evans, and was at school at Conwil under Arthur Evans. He began preaching c. 1808, and in Easter week 1811 was ordained at Ffynnonhenry as co-pastor. In 1846, rather than submit to a legal
EVANS, DAVID ALLAN PRICE (1927 - 2019), pharmacogeneticist Llangristiolus, Anglesey, and would travel there at weekends to attend to the farming needs. Under his careful planning, the smallholding grew to some fifty acres, and his parents took great pleasure in visiting the place on a regular basis. It is no wonder that he took on the bardic name 'Dafydd o Baradwys' (David of Paradise) when he was accepted into the Gorsedd of the National Eisteddfod for his
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician enabled Labour to taint Plaid's image with extremism and put a brake on its growth. Plaid lost Carmarthen in 1970. Throughout the 1970s Gwynfor found himself trying to steer Wales towards a measure of self-government amidst tempestuous crosscurrents. Following the 1974 elections, when he managed to regain Carmarthen, and with two new parliamentary colleagues, Dafydd Wigley and Dafydd Elis Thomas, the
EVANS, HARRY (1873 - 1914), musician St. Garmon ' and ' Dafydd ap Gwilym '; he also wrote several anthems and hymn-tunes, and arranged Welsh folk-songs and airs for choirs. A little before he died he had been selected as one of the three music editors of Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol, but he was unable to do any work in connection with that hymnal. His main ambition in life was to found a music college in Wales; had he lived he might have
EVANS, JOHN (1770 - 1799), traveller and Spanish colonial agent Born at Waunfawr, Caernarfonshire (christened 14 April 1770), son of Thomas Evans, a Methodist exhorter, and Anne, daughter of Evan Dafydd, also a Methodist exhorter. In 1792 he agreed to accompany Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) on a journey to visit the so-called 'Welsh Indians' who were reputed to be inhabiting the upper reaches of the Missouri. On Iolo's withdrawal from the enterprise, Evans
EVANS, JOHN VICTOR (1895 - 1957), barrister-at-law World War I he went to St. John's College, Oxford, where he read History and took a second-class honours degree in 1922. At Oxford he played a distinguished part in the Union Debating Society, being elected successively Secretary, Junior Librarian and in 1922 President of the Union; he was also President of the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society. After leaving Oxford he was called to the bar in 1924. He was an
EVANS, THOMAS (Telynog; 1840 - 1865), poet 'Blodeuyn bach wyf fi mewn gardd' and 'Yr Haf.' The latter is included in Blodeugerdd by W. J. Gruffydd. A collected edition of his work arranged by his friend Dafydd Morganwg (D. W. Jones) with a biographical sketch by Hywel Williams was published in 1866. He died 29 April 1865 and was buried in the Aberdare cemetery.
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, WILLIAM (bu farw 1589/90), well-born cleric Born in the manor house at Llangattock-vibon-Avel (Llangatwg feibion Afel), Monmouthshire; according to Clark he was the eldest son of Ieuan (called by Dafydd Benwyn, 'Siôn') ap Thomas, who was descended from an illegitimate son of Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan, died 1469). William Evans held the family living (the church is in the manor park) together with a neighbouring curacy for which he
EVANS, WILLIAM (Cawr Cynon; 1808 - 1860), colliery official and poet Born in a small thatched cottage near Ynys-gau iron bridge, Merthyr Tydfil, son of Richard Morgan Dafydd Evan, miner and country 'doctor.' He became a miner, but devoted his spare time to studying the cynganeddion, and at an early age, won a prize for five englynion. He was a frequent competitor at the local eisteddfodau writing cywyddau and englynion; he won a prize for an essay on the history

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