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EVANS, RHYS (1835 - 1917), musician Born 24 June 1835 in a farmhouse at Cross Inn (now called Ammanford), Carmarthenshire. He was a tailor by trade. He received his first music lessons from one William Penry. When seventeen he went to Swansea where he joined a music class. He moved to Cwmavon and afterwards to Cardiff; at the latter place he became a member of choirs conducted by Rhys Lewis and a Mr. Righton, which performed works
EVANS, THOMAS (1897 - 1963), alderman, education and hospital administrator chairman in 1955 of the board of governors of the United Cardiff hospitals, including the teaching hospital. At the time of his death he was vice-chairman of the Welsh Regional Hospitals Board and he had been chairman of its finance and establishment committee since 1952. In 1952 he was the last chairman of the now defunct Industrial Development Council for Wales and Monmouthshire; he was a part-time
EVANS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (Cadrawd; 1846 - 1918), antiquary and folk-lorist Pittsburgh, he returned to Llangynwyd to spend the rest of his life; he married Elizabeth Thomas (of Carmarthen); they had several children. They lived at 'Ty Cynwyd' near the parish church, and Cadrawd filled the house with old furniture, old farm implements, and rural craftsmen's gear - much of his collection is now in the National Museum of Wales, while many of his books are in the Cardiff City Library
EVANS, THOMAS (fl. 1596-1633), poet and transcriber of manuscripts He is known as Thomas Evans of Hendreforfudd, a township in the old parish of Corwen, but now lying in the ecclesiastical parish of Llansantffraid Glyn Dyfrdwy. He was the son of Evan ap John ap Robert ap Madoc ap Jenkin ap Griffith ap Bleddyn and Lowri, daughter of Griffith ab Evan ap David Ddu ap Tudur ab Evan ap Llewelyn ap Griffith ap Meredith ap Llewelyn ap Ynyr. The place and time of his
EVANS, TITUS (1809 - 1864), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster of Llandysul and worked in a lawyer's office at Llandysul and Swansea. Life as a lawyer's clerk did not, however, appeal to him and, once again, he sought out Owen Evans, who was now at Cefn-coed-y-cymer - the two were related to each other. He had already changed his tenets. He passed into Carmarthen College, where he remained for four years (1844-8). He was ordained minister of Rhyd-y-parc, near
EVANS, WILLIAM (bu farw 1718), Dissenting minister and academy tutor into Welsh by William Evans himself, and published in 1707; there is evidence too, that he wrote a foreword (dated 24 June 1716) to another edition of the same catechism, originally published by Matthew Henry in 1702, and now translated by James Davies (Iaco ap Dewi, 1648 - 1722). Jeremy Owen calls William Evans 'God's gift to his people.' He died probably towards the end of 1718.
EVANS, WILLIAM EMRYS (1924 - 2004), banker and philanthropist Emrys Evans was born on 4 April 1924, the son of Richard and Mary Elizabeth Evans, Maesglas, Y Foel, Montgomeryshire. On leaving Llanfair Caereinion County School in 1941, he went to work with the Midland Bank (now known as HSBC). A year later, he enlisted in the Royal Navy where he served as a radio operator; he was among a small group of men landed in Normandy, one day before D-Day, to report
FARRINGTON, RICHARD (1702 - 1772), cleric and antiquary the antiquities of Caernarvonshire, and was the host of Thomas Pennant when the latter toured the Caernarvon district. Farrington wrote three volumes of antiquarian interest - ' Numismata Dinlleana,' ' The Druid Monuments of Snowdonia,' and ' Celtic Antiquities of Snowdon '; the three manuscripts are now in the National Library of Wales. Through his connection with the Richardsons of Chester he
FENTON, RICHARD (1747 - 1821), poet and topographical writer poems (1773 and 1790); and he left many works in manuscript. [These manuscripts were bought in 1858 by Sir Thomas Phillipps, and are now in the Cardiff City Library; a selection was edited by John Fisher and published in 1917 as Tours in Wales, 1804-1813, by Richard Fenton. When in London, Fenton was a member of the Cymmrodorion and in 1778 was one of its two librarians; there is a kindly reference to
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress appear as Isabella of France in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet gave Gwen the lead part she most longed to play. She had first learned these lines as a teenager on holiday in Conwy, leaning out of her bedroom window, the moon rising over magical blue hills, the scent of stocks filling the night air. Despite now being 33, her portrayal was hailed as the first properly
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet the example of his elder brother Gregory, FitzGerald was sent to St Mary's College, Aberystwyth (now home to the Welsh Books Council under its old name of Castell Brychan), a seminary charged also with care of the parish. The College was re-established in 1936, in the same building as an earlier Catholic college of the same name (which had been relocated there from Holywell, remaining empty for a
FLYNN, PATRICIA MAUD (Patti) (1937 - 2020), musician, author, activist Patti Flynn was born in April 1937 in Butetown, then known as Tiger Bay, in Cardiff's docklands, to a family of mixed heritage. Her father, Wilmuth (known as Wilmot) George Young (1897 or 1901-1942), was born in the parish of St Maria, now St Mary, on Jamaica's North Coast, and came to Cardiff at the end of the First World War to seek work in the docks. On registration into the Royal Merchant

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