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EVANS, ELLIS (1786 - 1864), Baptist minister and author Born 22 June 1786 at Pig-y-swch, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd, the son of Evan Ellis, a roadmender. He joined the Baptist church at Llanuwchllyn in 1806 and began to preach in 1809. Having attended the school of Jesse Jones, Ffordd-las, he proceeded to the Abergavenny Baptist Academy in 1811 and left there in 1813 to become an itinerant preacher and school-master. In 1814 he married Mary Jones
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer him into contact with the archaeologist O. G. S. Crawford, future editor of Antiquity, and he returned to Aberystwyth to assist Fleure with contributions for the 14th edition of Encylopaedia Britannica, briefly also becoming his deputy editor of the Powys-land Club's Montgomeryshire Collections (Mont. Colls.). On his 23rd birthday, and benefiting from some insights given by Dr. Thomas Jones CH
EVANS, ERNEST (1885 - 1965), county court judge, M.P. of N.L.W. and a vice-president of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Evans specialised in agricultural law and he wrote, with Clement Edward Davies, An epitome of agricultural law (1911) and, on his own, Elements of the law relating to vendors and purchasers (1915) and Agricultural and Small Holdings Act. He married, in 1925, Constance Anne, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, draper, of Hadley Wood; at
EVANS, EVAN (fl. end of 18th century), player on the triple harp After the death of John Parry (1710? - 1782) he was appointed family harpist at Wynnstay, the residence of the Williams Wynn family. Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) refers to his skill. His name appears as a subscriber to Edward Jones, Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, as ' Mr. Evan Evans, Telynwr, Wynstay.' It is thought that he died at Wynnstay.
EVANS, EVAN (1671 - 1721), cleric and missioner in Pennsylvania 1721. An account of his work (including also accounts of his Welsh fellow-workers), based upon S.P.G. records, will be found in two articles by J. A. Thomas in the Journal of the Church in Wales Historical Society, 1954 and 1955. David Williams (Wales and America, Cardiff, 1946, 80-1) points out that Evan Evans's grandson, Oliver Evans, an inventor, was the first to build a steam-engine in the U.S.A.
EVANS, EVAN (1851 - 1934), eisteddfodwr, and secretary of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion , Stephen Evans, and other London Welshmen. 'Vincent' (a name added by himself) was elected a member of the society in October and of its council in December 1886. In the report of the society for the year ending 9 November 1887 it is stated that he had been elected to succeed C. W. Jones, who had held the office of secretary 'almost from the time of its revival.' Some years later Vincent Evans became
EVANS, EVAN (1773 - 1827), Baptist minister . During a visit to London (1817) to collect funds for his chapel, he decided to become a milk-vendor in London; in 1819 he was released by the church at Cefn-mawr and founded a Welsh Baptist church in London. It is interesting to note that he joined the London Cymreigyddion Society, and indeed was the speaker at their commemoration of John Jones (1766 - 1821) of Glan-y-gors - his address was printed in
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd; 1795 - 1855), cleric and poet bro estronawl'; there, too, he met a number of gentlemen and some clerics like Richard Richards (see Thomas Richards, 1754-1837) and John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri, 1770-1829), who persuaded him to seek holy orders. He studied at Aberriw ('Berriw,' Montgomeryshire) under Thomas Richards (1785-1855) for a time and then went to S. Bees College. He was ordained by the bishop of Chester and was licensed to
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Fardd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir; 1731 - 1788), scholar, poet, and cleric Llanfair Talhaearn for the remainder of the time. During this period he was busily engaged in collecting and copying Welsh manuscripts of literary and historical interest and so came into touch with others who were doing the same thing, e.g. David Jones of Trefriw (1708? - 1785), John Thomas (1736 - 1769), Rhys Jones of Blaenau, Richard Roberts, translator of Y Credadyn Bucheddol, 1768, Robert Thomas
EVANS, EVAN (1804 - 1886), Independent minister and author Cyssegr a'r Môr, 1842, 1852; Athrawiaeth a Dyledswydd, two volumes of sermons, 1865, 1866; he translated a work by John Owen, Tystiolaeth Ostyngedig i Ddaioni a Thoster Duw, 1843. He also translated A compendious view of Natural and Revealed Religion and A brief concordance to the Holy Scriptures, both by John Brown, Haddington, 1845, 1847; The Tryall of a Christian's Growth, Thomas Goodwin, 1847; The
EVANS, EVAN HERBER (1836 - 1896), Independent minister and college principal preach in 1857. He was for a time at the Normal College, Swansea, and later at Brecon Memorial College, 1858-62. He was ordained at Libanus, Morriston, 25 and 26 June 1862, to succeed Thomas Jones (1819 - 1882), one of the most famous preachers of his time. He moved, 1865, to Salem, Caernarvon, where he remained as minister until 1892, when he was appointed principal of the Bala-Bangor College at
EVANS, EVAN JENKIN (1882 - 1944), physicist and university professor series. In 1919 he became assistant director of the Manchester laboratories and was in charge of the department during Rutherford's absence on war work in 1917. He played for many years an important part in the training and building of Rutherford's school in Manchester. He married Elmira, daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary Rees, New Quay, Cardiganshire, and they had 5 children. In 1920 he was

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