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EVANS, RICHARD THOMAS (1892 - 1962), Baptist minister and administrator Fund for the denomination. R.T.E.'s mother was a member of the Wesleyan church, a sister of a minister in that denomination, John Edward Thomas (1875 - 1959). R.T.E. was baptised at a young age in Bethlehem, Trealaw, but it was in Calfaria, Abercynon that he was prepared for the ministry. He received his early education at Trealaw, and thereafter at secondary schools at Porth and Mountain Ash; he was
EVANS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (Cadrawd; 1846 - 1918), antiquary and folk-lorist Born 28 December 1846 (christened 'Thomas,' simply), son of Thomas Evans, parish clerk of Llan-gynwyd, Glamorganshire, and his wife Jane. The father (died 30 December 1877, aged seventy-five) was an Anglican, but the mother a Methodist; the home welcomed Methodist preachers - see the descriptions of it by Edward Matthews of Ewenny, in Y Cylchgrawn, particularly in the number for February 1878
EVANS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1805), early Calvinistic Methodist exhorter . He published at Trevecka in 1786 an elegy upon Mrs. Thomas Charles's mother Jane Foulkes; and in 1789 a small book o hymmns by himself and Edward Parry (1723 - 1786) and others, printed 'for the benefit of a poor man named William Ellis '. According to Robert Jones of Rhoslan, he was ' paralysed for some time before his death.' In 1805, he went to Devonport, to visit two of his sons who lived there
EVANS, WILLIAM (1795 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister was ordained at the Cardigan Association, 1825. In the course of his long life he toured and preached over the whole of Wales, being justly popular not only because of his outstanding personal qualities but also because of the pithiness of some of his observations. He was known to his contemporaries as 'the silver bell of Tonyrefail.' He and Edward Matthews of Ewenny were responsible for the spread
EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD (1801 - 1869), canon of Hereford - gweler EVANS, JOHN
EVANS-WILLIAMS, LAURA (1883 - 1944), singer Eldest daughter of John and Ellen Evans, born at Bryn Meirion, Henllan, Denbighshire, 7 September 1883. She was educated at Howell's School, Denbigh, and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. She began her career as a contralto, winning prizes at several eisteddfodau; at the Academy she studied under Edward Iles who developed her voice as a lyric soprano. She became widely known as a concert and
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress appear as Isabella of France in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet gave Gwen the lead part she most longed to play. She had first learned these lines as a teenager on holiday in Conwy, leaning out of her bedroom window, the moon rising over magical blue hills, the scent of stocks filling the night air. Despite now being 33, her portrayal was hailed as the first properly
FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar Born on 5 January 1862, at Cilcoll, Llandebïe, being the eldest son of Edward and Mary Fisher. He was educated at the national school, Llandeilo-Talybont (Pontardulais), Llandovery school, and S. David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated B.A., in 1884, and B.D. in 1891, having been scholar and prizeman. Ordained deacon in 1885, and priest in 1886, he held curacies at Pontbleiddyn
teulu FITZ ALAN, lords of Oswestry and Clun, and later earls of Arundel , near Towyn, Meironnydd, was besieged in 1294, by Madog ap Llywelyn, RICHARD FITZ ALAN I (1267 - 1302) was in command of the force sent to bring relief and he was active in the other campaigns against the Welsh [see Morris, Welsh Wars of Edward I (index) ]. During the latter years of the reign of Edward II, EDMUND (1285 - 1326), son of Richard I, was justice of Wales (1322), custodian of the Welsh
teulu FITZ WARIN, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston The lands in Shropshire were an area of dispute between the English and the Welsh until the conquest of Wales by Edward I. In the latter part of the 12th century, 'English' Maelor was in the hands of Roger de Powis and his brother Jonas but the area around Whittington was held by FULK FITZWARIN I (died 1156) and FULK II (died 1197). FULK III (died 1256?) regained possession of Whittington in 1204
FLOOD, EDWARD - gweler LLOYD, EDWARD
FLOUD, EDWARD - gweler LLOYD, EDWARD

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