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EVANS, WILLIAM (1779 - 1854), Wesleyan minister (1814), Ruthin (1816), Llanfyllin (1818), Machynlleth (1821), Llanfaircaereinion (1824), Pwllheli (1826), Dolgelly 1828, Caernarvon (1831 - the year of the 'Little Wesley' trouble [see A. H. Williams, Welsh Wesleyan Methodism, chapter vii]), Llandysul (1832), Crickhowell (1835), Swansea (1837), Merthyr (1840), and Machynlleth (1843). He retired in 1844 and settled at Machynlleth, were he died 30 July
EVANS, WILLIAM (1800 - 1880), hymnist Born 1 October 1800, fourth son of Thomas Evans (1756 - 1837) of Pen-y-feidr, Trefgarn, Pembrokeshire, and his wife, Sarah (Bevan); the father, an elder of Woodstock C.M. church, had, in his youth, acted as guide to Williams of Pantycelyn on his journeys in Pembrokeshire. William Evans had but three weeks' schooling. He became a member of Hall C.M. church c. 1820-1, and was later an elder there
EVANS, WILLIAM (1869 - 1948) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary Society to serve in Madagascar in 1898, and was ordained at Siloam, Pentre-estyll, Swansea, 18 and 19 June 1899. He married Margaret, daughter of Reverend R.E. Williams, Ynys-lwyd (Bapt.), Aberdare. On his arrival in Madagascar at the end of 1899 he was appointed minister of Ambatonakanga in the capital, a church established by David Jones of Neuadd-lwyd. Apart from some journeys to the north on behalf
EVANS, WILLIAM MEIRION (1826 - 1883), miner, Calvinistic Methodist minister in U.S.A. and Australia, and editor of journals published in Australia first number of Yr Ymgeisydd, but this undertaking did not prosper and no second number appeared. Evans visited Wales in 1865, proceeded to America, but returned once more to Ballarat. In July 1867 appeared the first number of Yr Awstralydd, edited by Evans and Theophilus Williams; this periodical continued to appear until February 1871. On 16 October 1874, the first number of another Welsh periodical
EVANS-WILLIAMS, LAURA (1883 - 1944), singer she taught singing till her death there on 5 October, 1944. She was buried at Henllan. She had married, in 1905, R.T. Williams, and she was survived by a daughter and a son.
EVERETT, ROBERT (1791 - 1875), Independent ministers preacher as William Williams of Wern (1781 - 1840); he took a prominent part in the theological discussions of his time, and wrote an essay on Redemption for John Roberts (1767 - 1834) of Llanbryn-mair's little book, Galwad Ddifrifol (see Cofiant John Jones, Talysarn, 447) He also published a system of Welsh short-hand and Catecism Cyntaf or Yr Addysgydd. In 1833 he moved from Utica to Winfield, leaving
FISON, ANNA (Morfydd Eryri; 1839 - 1920), linguist, poet and educator the instigation of Dr. Charles Williams, principal of Jesus College. In 1871 she married David Walter Thomas, and their children (two sons and three daughters) were brought up good Welshmen and Welshwomen. One of their sons was the priest and scholar Evan Lorimer Thomas. She threw herself into Welsh life, holding night classes for the local quarrymen; she was instrumental in aiding many of them to
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author was by then 67 years old and quite frail. And he soon faced a major crisis in January 1981 when four stars of the Labour Party, Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers, decided to leave and create a new party, the SDP. Throughout Foot's leadership, the opinion polls insisted that he was not popular, and he was nicknamed Worzel Gummidge by politicians and the press alike. Labour's
FOSTER, IDRIS LLEWELYN (1911 - 1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar , and MA with Distinction in 1935 for a thesis on the important Middle Welsh prose tale Culhwch ac Olwen: Professor Ifor Williams was a dominant influence on him during his time at Bangor. In 1935 he was awarded a University of Wales Fellowship which enabled him to study at the National University of Ireland in Dublin with Osborn Bergin and at the University of Bonn with Rudolf Thurneysen. In 1936 he
FOSTER, IVOR LLEWELYN (1870 - 1959), singer with Villiers Stanford. He won a gold medal during his first year and before the end of the course Sir Hubert Parry said that he was one of the best baritones to have studied in the college. He portrayed the character Don Pedro in a performance of Standford's Opera Much ado about nothing at Covent Garden in 1901. Later he sang in the promenade concerts and in Boosey's ballad concerts in London and he
FOULKES, ANNIE (1877 - 1962), editor of an anthology Born 24 March 1877 at Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. Her father, Edward Foulkes (1850 - 1917), was an official at Dinorwig slate quarry, a man of wide literary culture and author of a number of articles in Welsh periodicals on 19th-c. English writers : Robert Williams Parry wrote a sonnet in memory of him. She was educated at Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau, and at College de Jeunes Filles in Saumur
FRANCIS, EDMUND (1768 - 1831), Sandemanian Baptist minister Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu, 1767 - 1850); it was Francis who supervised the publication of the hymnary edited by J. R. Jones of Ramoth; and in 1829 he published Welsh translations of three of the works of Archibald McLean. He died in December 1831, on the fifth according to his tombstone at Llanllyfni, on the eighth according to the Ramoth (Llanfrothen) church book. A granddaughter of his married the

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