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EVANS, DAVID PUGH (1866 - 1897), musician Born in a farm-house called Llain-wen, near Ffynnonhenry, Conwil, Carmarthenshire, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Pugh Evans. As a youth he served in a shop at Llanelly, where he joined the choir at Capel Seion conducted by R. C. Jenkins. He learnt the Tonic Sol-fa system in a class held by D. W. Lewis of Brynaman, and harmony in a class held by Joseph Parry - both classes being held at Llanelly. In
EVANS, ERNEST (1885 - 1965), county court judge, M.P. the time, her widowed mother was married to J.T. Lewis of London and Llanarth, Cardiganshire. Evans died on 18 January 1965 at his home, Traethgwyn, Ffordd Tymawr, Deganwy, Caernarfonshire
EVANS, EVAN (1851 - 1934), eisteddfodwr, and secretary of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Born at Nancaw in the parish of Llangelynnin, Meironnydd, 25 November 1852, according to one record, or 18 November 1851, according to another. His father was Lewis Evans; his mother was Ann Lewis of Arthog - she died in giving birth to her second son William. Evan was brought up from the age of 4 in the remote village of Trawsfynydd by his father's mother, Beti Evans, a woman of strong
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Fardd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir; 1731 - 1788), scholar, poet, and cleric ; here again there is no definite evidence as to the length of his stay - he was there in 1751 and again in 1753, but left without graduating. Before going to Oxford he had made the acquaintance of Lewis Morris, who influenced his whole life by instructing him in the technique of poetry, kindling his interest in Welsh learning, and bringing him into contact with others who were helping to promote the
EVANS, EVAN HERBER (1836 - 1896), Independent minister and college principal Bangor in succession to Thomas Lewis (1837 - 1892). He had been reluctant to accept the principalship and after realising that he could not maintain both posts he relinquished his pastoral care of Salem, Caernarfon. He commenced his duties at Bangor in January 1893, and delivered his valedictory sermon at Salem on 25 February 1894. He died 30 December 1896. Early in his ministry he gained the
EVANS, EVAN JOHN (1827 - 1891), Hebraist and college tutor secretary with Sir Lewis Morris, of the University College at Aberystwyth, was re-elected to that office in October 1881, but resigned it in February 1884, though he retained his membership of the Council. He appears to have been rather a difficult man, and his resignation, says a contemporary letter, 'was accepted with alacrity.'
EVANS, EVAN WILLIAM (1827? - 1874), mathematician Born in Llangyfelach, 6 January 1827 (or 1828), son of William and Catherine (née Howell) Evans. He is sometimes known as Evander William Evans. He removed with his parents in 1833 to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He graduated at Yale in 1851, and was tutor there, 1855-7. He studied theology in New Haven after graduating, and was principal of Delaware Institute, Franklin, New York, for a
EVANS, GEORGE EYRE (1857 - 1939), Unitarian minister and antiquary Son of David Lewis Evans. Born 8 September 1857 at Colyton, Devon. He was educated at a school kept by William Thomas (Gwilym Marles, 1834 - 1879) and at a school in Liverpool. For some years he was minister of the Church of the Saviour at Whitchurch, Salop, and later devoted many years of his life without pay to the service of the Unitarian chapel at Aberystwyth. But he was, above all, an
EVANS, GRIFFITH (1835 - 1935), microscopist, bacteriologist, and pioneer of protozoon pathology Born 7 August 1835 at Ty-mawr, Towyn, Meironnydd, the third child and only son of Evan Evans (1801 - 1882) by Mary (1809 - 1877), daughter of William Jones of Tyddyn y Berllan, Towyn. His father claimed descent from Merioneth families which have a distinguished record in Welsh history, numbering among his ancestors Lewis Owen, slain 1555 and Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, antiquary. Griffith Evans
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician a resolution was passed at the 1938 Plaid Cymru Conference in Swansea, contrary to the wishes of Saunders Lewis, to eschew entirely the use of violence in the struggle for self-government. Gwynfor's pacifism, together with the Party's parallel decision to pursue Welsh freedom primarily by constitutional, electoral means, was to become a continuing bone of contention with Saunders Lewis over the
EVANS, HOWELL THOMAS (1877 - 1950), historian and schoolmaster time (1931); Long long ago (1932); The Age of Expansion (1933). In 1940 he was President of the Welsh Secondary Schools Association, and for a period he was one of the representatives of the Headmasters of Secondary Schools upon the University of Wales Court. Howell Evans was a man of wide interests, and refused to be confined within the limits of a teacher's professional life, considerable though
EVANS, JOHN (1796 - 1861), schoolmaster , where the youth of the neighbourhood received a practical education for over forty years. Among his pupils were Lewis Edwards, Henry Richard, David Charles Davies and Ieuan Gwyllt (John Roberts). When Lewis Edwards kept a school in Aberystwyth he did not consider it to be in competition with but, rather, preparatory to Evans ' school. The school had a good name for the teaching of navigation. Evans

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