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EVANS, BERIAH GWYNFE (1848 - 1927), journalist and dramatist of the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1911. His play, Caradog, was produced in connection with the Caernarvon eisteddfod in 1906, the first occasion on which a dramatic performance became a part of the national eisteddfod. He was prominent in the 1885 agitation for using and teaching Welsh in the schools, and was the first secretary of the 'Society for the Utilization of the Welsh Language
EVANS, DANIEL (Eos Dâr; 1846 - 1915), musician became a member of a choir conducted by Llew Llwyfo, which was performing ' Storm Tiberias ' (by Edward Stephen); later he joined the well-known ' Côr Caradog.' He became conductor of the Aberdare Glee Society, a choir which won many prizes. In 1876 he moved to Maerdy in the Rhondda Fach valley to work as a colliery winder. He became precentor at Siloa Congregational chapel, where he arranged for
EVANS, DAVID (1886 - 1968), Professor of German and author Inspector of Elementary Schools in Carmarthenshire and her mother had been a member of the 'Côr Mawr' conducted by Griffith Rhys Jones ('Caradog'). His wife, too, was a graduate of Aberystwyth College in 1910, and by the time she met David Evans in Birmingham she had been appointed French teacher at Halesowen grammar school for girls. At Aberystwyth she actively supported several good causes, e.g. Friends
EVANS, DAVID (Dewi Dawel; 1814 - 1891), tailor, publican, and poet younger son, WILLIAM CARADAWC EVANS (Gwilym Caradog; 1848 - 1878), left a note-book dated 27 August 1871, containing a number of verses with three chapters of notes on Welsh metres entitled ' Ysgol y Beirdd.' Dewi Dawel died at Cwm-du 20 December 1891, and was buried in the churchyard at Llanfynydd.
EVANS, DAVID CARADOG - gweler EVANS, CARADOC
EVANS, RHYS (1835 - 1917), musician Caradog '; when Caradog (Griffith Rhys Jones) moved to Treorchy, Evans became conductor of the 'United Aberdare Choir.' He gave up competing and concentrated on the performance, with the aid of an orchestra, of large works by the masters. He was a good violin player and it was his practice to teach the various voices their parts by playing them for them on that instrument. He used also to write in the
EVANS, STEPHEN (1818 - 1905), Cymmrodor University College, Aberystwyth. He was an ardent eisteddfodwr and a liberal patron of Welsh musicians and composers. He was one of the foremost members of the London committee formed in connection with the visit of ' Côr Mawr Caradog ' to London in 1873 and when, partly through the enthusiasm caused by the choir's success, the Society of the Cymmrodorion was revived at a meeting in the Freemasons Tavern
GALLIE, MENNA PATRICIA (1919 - 1990), writer her birthplace and becomes involved in politics, poaching, local gossip and intrigue. Menna Gallie's literary agent declined the novel because it did not fit into a marketable genre and would be difficult to place. It was subsequently published only in America in 1986. However, in 1973 she busied herself translating Caradog Pritchard's Welsh-language novel Un Nos Ola Leuad (Full Moon), the story of
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd Son of Cynan ap Iago, who was an exile in Ireland, and Rhagnell (Ragnhildr), a daughter of the royal house of the Scandinavians of Dublin. After 1039, when Iago was treacherously slain by his own men, Gwynedd was ruled by usurpers who were not of the royal line. One of these was Bleddyn ap Cynfyn. who was killed in 1075 and succeeded by his cousin, Trahaearn ap Caradog, king of Arwystli. In that
GWILYM CARADOG - gweler EVANS, DAVID
HENRY, JOHN (1859 - 1914), musician ' Gwlad y Delyn.' He also composed part-songs, e.g. ' Nos Ystorm,' and ' Selene,' a cantata called ' Olga,' and an opera ' Caradog.' He died 14 January 1914 and was buried at Liverpool.
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher Wales in 1997. He married, 2 April 1953, Rhiannon Huws, daughter of the Rev. Llewellyn Caradog Huws, Gwauncaegurwen, and they had one son, Ceri. He died in Swansea on 11 March 2008. The new hall of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Millennium Centre in Cardiff was named Hoddinott Hall in recognition of his contribution to music in Wales.

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