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EVANS, HENRY (fl. end of 17th century), poet and translator Hughes's. An original poetical work entitled Ymddiddan rhwng Hen Wr Dall a'r Angau was published in 1764; other editions appeared in 1781 and in 1807. On the title-page of the last edition the author is named as 'Harri Evan William o'r Bedwellty, sir Fynwy.'
EVANS, HENRY WILLIAM (1840 - 1919), labour leader and author
EVANS, HORACE (1st. BARON EVANS of MERTHYR TYDFIL), (1903 - 1963), physician specialised in the effects of high blood pressure and diseases of the kidneys, making a thorough study of Bright's disease, on which he published papers in medical and scientific journals. Years later he provided an authoritative revision of the section on diseases of the liver for Frederick William Price (ed.), Textbook of the practice of medicine (8th ed.; 1950). In addition he was consultant physician to
EVANS, HUGH (1712 - 1781), Baptist minister and Academy tutor '; Caleb Evans 'did not understand Welsh,' yet he would attend the meetings, and he preached six times. The Evans family were very influential among the Welsh Baptists, and their Academy attracted able young Baptists from Wales - William Richards of Lynn (1749 - 1818) was one of these. CALEB EVANS (died 1790), schoolmaster Education Half-brother of Hugh. He was a schoolmaster, and though a preacher
EVANS, IFOR (IVOR) LESLIE (1897 - 1952), principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Born 17 January 1897, son of William John Evans of Aberdare and Mary Elizabeth (née Milligan) his wife. He was educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse and studied in France and Germany where, in 1914, he was interned for the duration of the war at Ruhleben prison camp, where he learned Welsh and changed his given name Ivor to Ifor. He worked briefly in the coal trade in Swansea before going up
EVANS, ILLTUD (1913 - 1972), Catholic priest particular interest in everything connected with crime and punishment; he visited prisons and rehabilitation centres all over Britain. In the US, this became his main preoccupation. He visited many penal institutions, while preparing a report on the operation of parole for the William J Kirby Foundation of Washington DC. He addressed the Annual Convention of the American Correctional Association in 1961
EVANS, JAMES THOMAS (1878 - 1950), principal of the Baptist College, Bangor Born 1 March 1878 at Abercwmboi, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, son of William Evans and his wife Ann Williams. The family moved to Pont-y-gwaith, and it was there that the son began to preach. He spent some time at the Pontypridd Academy before his admission to the college and the university at Bangor in 1900, where he took an honours degree in Hebrew. He won the Dean Edwards prize and the George
EVANS, JOHN (1756 - 1846), surgeon : ROBERT WILSON EVANS (1789 - 1866), cleric, Fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, a prolific author who became archdeacon of Westmorland; THOMAS EVANS (1791 - 1853), a naval officer who saw active service in the Napoleonic wars; and WILLIAM EDWARD EVANS (1801 - 1869), cleric, who became canon of Hereford. They are all commemorated in Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies, and Robert Wilson Evans
EVANS, JOHN (1767 - 1827), Baptist minister and head of a school at Islington manner appealed to all classes. Writing was his principal pleasure and he published some forty works, of which the chief are: An Address to Young People on the Necessity and Importance of Religion; A Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World, 1795; Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Richards, LL.D., 1819. He also edited The Welsh Nonconformist Memorial, 1820, by William Richards (1749
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1817), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter trust deed of Adwy chapel in 1804) is described as a ' tallow-chandler.' In 1744 he married Margaret, daughter of the poet Morris Roberts (died 1723?), of Llanuwch-llyn; their daughter married William Edwards (1773 - 1853), the hymn-writer. In 1745, Evans was admitted into the newly formed Methodist society at Bala, and soon began to itinerate in the surrounding country, but it was not till 1765 that
EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter A native of Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire. He travelled considerably in both North and South Wales and in some places suffered persecution. His temperament was genial, but he could thunder forth on occasion. ' John Evan of Killy-comb ' is mentioned in the will of Morgan Rhys, the hymn-writer, 1779. William Williams of Pant-y-celyn wrote a short elegy upon him according to which he was buried at Cil
EVANS, JOHN (Y Bardd Cocos; 1827? - 1888), eccentric and poetaster alone scansion [ William McGonagall will supply a parallel from Scotland]. Evans is included in the present work as perhaps the sublimest example of his class. He was, indeed, hardly quite sane, and the wags of his neighbourhood had great sport with him; they enthroned him as 'Princely Arch-cockle-bard', in regalia consisting of a long thick overcoat and a hat encircled with coloured beads; in this

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