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EVANS, MARY JANE (Llaethferch; 1888 - 1922), elocutionist local teachers, she showed little inclination for playing a musical instrument. William Asaph Williams gave her singing lessons but this again did not interest her because of her great love was reading and literature. She took part in recitation competitions and also participated in the quarterly meetings of the Sunday schools in the Panteg area. During the Revival of 1904-05, she was received as a
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer Christian community of the village was the upbringing that nurtured in Merêd the basic principles to which he was true throughout his life. He failed to gain a scholarship to grammar school and in 1930 started at the Central School, Blaenau Ffestiniog. There he was taught by the author John Ellis Williams, who greatly influenced him. But by 1934, when he was only 14, his father's health deteriorated, and
EVANS, OWEN ELLIS (1920 - 2018), Methodist minister and biblical scholar internationally renowned scholar, Professor T. W. Manson, to assume the responsibility of lecturing in his stead when he was taken gravely ill. He recorded his experiences of that time and also of the period when he assisted Vincent Taylor in his lecture 'On Serving Two Masters'. He married Margaret Williams, a teacher from Ffynnongroyw, in 1953. She died in 2017. They had four children, two sons and two
EVANS, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1904 - 1995), Calvinistic Methodist minister and professor of theology also taught at the Theological Colleges at Aberystwyth and Bala, David Williams (1877-1927) (1970), and a volume on the history of the disputes between the two World Wars concerning the formulation of the Short Declaration of Faith and Practice of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, Datganiad Byr ar Ffydd a Buchedd Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru (1971), which had been the subject of his Davies Lecture in
EVANS, ROBERT (Cybi; 1871 - 1956), poet, writer, and bookseller Born 27 November 1871 in Elusendy, Llangybi, Caernarfonshire, one of the seven children of Thomas Evans, farmworker, and Mary (née Roberts). He was educated at the council school, Llangybi and after serving for a time on Eifionydd farms he was the local postman there for the greater part of his life. William Hugh Williams, ' Cae'r go ', was his fellow postman. He also sold 'books of every sort
EVANS, SAMUEL ISLWYN (1914 - 1999), educationalist Flight Lieutenant in Iceland and Northern Ireland. He met his wife, Mary Ellen Williams (1919-1993), an RAF nurse from Tŷ Croes, Ammanford, in London. They married in 1944, and had three children, Eryl Cydwel (b. 1946), Erfyl Dilwyn (b. 1950), and Wyneira Delyth (b. 1955). Islwyn returned to Sheffield University in 1946 and completed a first class honours in applied science followed by a doctoral
EVANS, THEOPHILUS (1693 - 1767), cleric, historian, and man of letters . It is doubtful whether he ever went to a university, for in 1714-16 he was at home and at Shrewsbury, preparing books for the press. He was ordained deacon, 14 August 1717, and priest, 9 November 1718, by the bishop of S. Davids, and became curate of Llanlleonfel, and afterwards (under Moses Williams) of Devynnock, both in Brecknock. On 14 August 1722 he was made vicar of Llandyfrïog, near
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 JOHN (1863 - 1932), journalist was the friend and supporter of the brilliant young men of his generation - Tom Ellis, David Lloyd George, William Llewelyn Williams, and Ellis Jones Griffith. A notable collector of Welsh books and books pertaining to Wales, he was also an authority on the history of Welsh societies and settlements in London. He was a member of the council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. A genial and
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1894 - 1965), local government officer and an administrator within the Baptist denomination Born 30 March 1894 in Carmarthen, one of twin sons of David Evans (died 16 August 1926 aged 55 years), prison officer, and Mary Ann Evans (née Williams, died 24 December 1895 aged 25 years). About three months after his birth the family moved to Shepton Mallet, where his father had taken employment, but following his mother's death the son returned to Carmarthen to be raised by his grandmother
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author (Dyffryn Nantlle), Caernarfon in September 1933, before moving to Tabernacle, Morriston in July 1945 succeeding Rev J.J. Williams. In 1964, he was elected General Secretary of the Union of Welsh Independents, a post he held until his retirement in 1975. He was President of the Union of Welsh Independents, and delivered his address in 1976 in Morriston on "Keeping the Faith". In 1936 he married Elizabeth
EVANS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1805), early Calvinistic Methodist exhorter (buried in Llanycil churchyard on 1 February); they had at least five children: Elizabeth (1758), Evan, Morris, David, and Anne. He began exhorting about 1765, was a noteworthy preacher, and was one of the most important figures of Bala Methodism in his day, a trustee of Methodist meetinghouses in Merrioneth from 1770 onwards, and an agent for the distribution of Williams of Pantycelyn's hymn-booklets

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