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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, WILLIAM EMRYS (1924 - 2004), banker and philanthropist Midland Bank'. He was unwell during the last year of his life, but he made a great effort to keep his commitments. In 1946, he married Mair Thomas and they had one daughter. Emrys and Mair Evans lived in London while he was at the bank's head office and then they moved to South Wales in 1972 when they settled at Dinas Powys in a house named after his childhood home. He died at his home in Dinas Powys on
FRANCIS, GRIFFITH (1876 - 1936), musicians Born at Bryn-y-wern, Cwm Pennant, Caernarfonshire. Griffith in December 1876 and Owen on 15 June 1879, the sons of William and Mary Francis. Their father, who was a good musician, was an official in Moelfre quarry; their mother 'Mair Alaw,' singer, was a native of Nantlle. The brothers became quarrymen. Griffith, who was a poet, published Telyn Eryri, containing poems dealing with the lives of
GRIFFITH, HUW WYNNE (1915 - 1993), minister (Presb) and a prominent ecumenical leader married Mair Benson-Evans (1918-2003), daughter of Dr and Mrs Benson-Evans, Prestatyn on 4 July 1945 in Rehoboth Chapel, Prestatyn and three daughters were born to them, Nia in 1947, Ann in 1949 and Gwawr in 1956. From his college days Huw Wynne Griffith had been heavily involved in the ecumenical witness. He served from 1939 to 1941 as the General Secretary of the Student Christian Movement (SCM), and
GRIFFITH, JOHN (Y Gohebydd; 1821 - 1877), newspaper correspondent, campaigner for education, and principal mover in re-establishing the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Born 16 December 1821 at Bodgwilym near Barmouth, son of Griffith and Maria Griffith - his mother being the eldest daughter of John Roberts (1767 - 1834) of Llanbryn-mair. After having had an elementary education at Barmouth he was, about 1836, apprenticed to William Owen, ' Grocer, Draper, and Druggist ' at Barmouth, with whom he remained until 1840. After that he was a shop assistant in
GRIFFITH, OWEN (Ywain Meirion, Owen Gospiol; 1803 - 1868), ballad-writer and strolling ballad-singer . Some have it that he gave up ballad-singing and became a rag-collector; in any case, it is certain that his last years, despite the kindness of Nicholas Bennett, were years of adversity. He died a pauper at Llanbryn-mair, 24 June 1868, at the age of sixty-five, and was buried there by the parish - on his tomb is an englyn by Mynyddog. We have fifty-nine of his ballads.
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (1782 - 1858), Independent minister of Towyn, Llanegryn, and Llwyngwril. In 1811 he married Sarah Phillips. In 1841 he moved to Rhodiad and S. Davids where he laboured until his death on 11 April 1858; he was buried at Ebenezer, S. Davids. He published Trefn Eglwys dan y Testament Newydd, 1811. Together with John Roberts of Llanbryn-mair (1767-1834), and others, he was responsible for what was called the 'new system.' Their views
GRIFFITHS, WINIFRED MAIR (1916 - 1996), minister (Cong) and headmistress Mair Griffiths was born in Cardiff 6 June 1916, one of two daughters born to Griffith William and Alice Maud Griffiths. Griffith William Griffiths had come as a young man to work in Cardiff from Montgomeryshire, where his parents were farming at the Forge Farm, near Pontrobert, on the road to Meifod. It is interesting to note, in this connection, that the brother of one of her father's great
HUGHES, EZEKIEL (1766 - 1849), one of the early Welsh settlers in the far west of the U.S.A. Born 22 August 1766, son of Richard Hughes, Cwm Carnedd Uchaf, Llanbryn-mair. He appears to have had some little education at Shrewsbury. At the age of twenty he was bound apprentice to John Tibbott (see Tibbott family) the clock-maker of Newtown. When his apprenticeship was over, he opened his own clock-making establishment at Machynlleth (1789), where he came under the influence of William
HUGHES, HUGH (Tegai; 1805 - 1864), Independent minister and man of letters ; and Dawn ar Bob Dyn. Tegai worked unceasingly as a preacher, author, and poet and may be justly regarded as a very notable example of a poor country boy who, lacking the advantages of birth and education, taught himself and acquired an honoured position among his contemporaries; Dr. Lewis Edwards praised his Gramadeg and 'J.R.' of Llanbryn-mair and Gwilym Hiraethog paid tributes to the excellence of
HUWS, RHYS JONES (1862 - 1917), Independent minister as a teacher in the British school at the neighbouring village of Staylittle. In March 1878 he went to the British school at Llanbryn-mair to complete his course as a pupil teacher; in those days the school was held in the schoolroom of the 'Old Chapel.' He remained there until mid-summer 1880, when he was appointed to the charge of Aberhosan school. Two years later he gained his teaching
HUWS, WILLIAM PARI (1853 - 1936), Independent minister grammar school and later to the Bala Independent College, 1874. In 1877 he was admitted to Yale University, U.S.A., where, in 1880, he graduated B.D. On his return to Wales he received a call to Beulah and Bryn-mair churches, Cardiganshire, where he was ordained in 1882. He soon came into the public eye as a zealous temperance reformer and, with his neighbour David Adams of Hawen, initiated a movement

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