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EVANS, LEWIS (1755 - 1827), mathematician contact with Wales, but the remarkable record of his family deserves summary mention. His younger son, ARTHUR BENONI EVANS (1781 - 1854), schoolmaster and author, was the father of Sir JOHN EVANS (1823 - 1908), the famous archaeologist and numismatist, and of SEBASTIAN EVANS (1830 - 1909), glass designer and man of letters. Sir John's son, Sir ARTHUR JOHN EVANS (1851 - 1941), keeper of the Ashmolean
EVANS, LEWIS (c. 1700 - 1756), cartographer , but he died 12 June 1756 before completing the task; he was at the time in custody in New York on a charge of libel against the governor Robert Hunter Morris. His map was used unacknowledged many times between 1755 and 1814 by London map publishers. In 1776 it was published in America by Thomas Pownall with his Topographical Description of North America to aid Evans' family which was in straightened
EVANS, LEWIS PUGH (1881 - 1962), soldier and public figure, Brigadier General, VC, CB, CMG, DSO . Following the death of his eldest brother Griffith in 1945 he inherited the Lovesgrove estate near Aberystwyth and returned permanently to Cardiganshire where he was active in agricultural and public affairs until his death from a heart attack at Paddington station 30 November 1962. He was buried at Llanbadarn Fawr churchyard, Aberystwyth. Lewis Evans was a descendant of a very old Welsh family from
EVANS, MALDWYN LEWIS (1937 - 2009), champion bowler Mal Evans was born at 62, Rees Street, Gelli in the Rhondda on 8 November 1937, the son of Clifford ('Cliff') Maldwyn Evans (1904-1985) and his wife Haulwen, née Evans, (1905-1993). He rose to fame in June 1972 when he was crowned world singles bowls champion on the outdoor greens at Worthing, Sussex. He came from a bowling family and both his father and uncle, John Morgan Evans (1917-1985), were
EVANS, MARY JANE (Llaethferch; 1888 - 1922), elocutionist to run a school in Swansea; after the father's death, the mother took charge of the 'College' School near Ystradgynlais. After travelling in many countries, Thomas Hutchings moved to Ystalyfera where he worked in the tinplate works. Through her mother, his wife was also from a musical family, the Anthony s of Cwmaman. Hutchings and his wife both worked, as children, in the tinplate works. When Mary
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer Merêd was born his father and eldest brother Jac moved to work at the Foel granite quarry, and a month before the little boy's first birthday he moved with the rest of the family to live with them in Bryn Mair, Tanygrisiau. It was an impoverished community, but it was also rich in many ways. The quarry was an arduous place to work. His father was increasingly unwell for the last three years and died
EVANS, MORRIS EDDIE (1890 - 1984), composer Eddie Evans was born on 5 October 1890 at Tal-y-sarn in the Nantlle valley in Caernarfonshire, the only son of William Owen Evans and his wife Catherine A. Evans. The family kept a grocery shop at Cloth Hall and later Paris House in Tal-y-sarn, and Eddie took lessons on the harmonium and in sol-fa from local musicians. They moved to Liverpool in 1904, where Eddie was taught by the musician and
EVANS, OWEN (1829 - 1920), Congregational minister and author Born 19 November 1829 in Pen-y-bont-fawr, Montgomeryshire. He hailed from a deeply religious family - on his mother's side he was related to the hymnist, Ann Griffiths. He worked in a factory at first. He was received into church membership at Llanfyllin when he was sixteen. For a while he was at a school kept by Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd); later he himself kept school in the same place. He began
EVANS, OWEN ELLIS (1920 - 2018), Methodist minister and biblical scholar Owen E. Evans was born on 23 December 1920 in Barmouth, the son of Owen Jones Evans (1887-1926), pharmacist, and his wife Elizabeth Mary (née Jones, 1887-1961), owner of a small hotel. He had one older brother, John William. He spent the first five years of his life in Wimbledon, London, but the family was forced to move back to Barmouth in the summer of 1926 because of his father's illness. He
EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Carne (of the Nash family) and Christopher Turberville of Sker. He was arrested on 2 December 1678 at Sker, after John Arnold had offered £50 reward for his capture, in the nation-wide upheaval that followed the disclosures of Titus Oates. He was imprisoned in Cardiff castle with Father John Lloyd, and the two priests were tried in the Shire Hall on Thursday and Friday, 8 and 9 May 1679, by judge Owen
EVANS, SAMUEL ISLWYN (1914 - 1999), educationalist , he accepted the position of Director of the South Australian Institute of Technology and Dean of the Faculty of Technology and Applied Science at Adelaide University, and moved with his family to Adelaide, Australia. The South Australian Institute of Technology had only a year before been known as the School of Mines. It was a technical college operating from a single campus and was mainly geared
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

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