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EVAN, EVAN DAFYDD (fl. 1771-9), early Methodist exhorter who lived at Tŷr-clai (or Tir-y-clai), Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire. He was celebrated in his day because of his remarkable appearance and his unconventional method of preaching; he was responsible for the conversion of the celebrated Jenkin Thomas ('Siencyn Penhydd,' 1746 - 1807). He, with others, built the first Methodist chapel at Llanfynydd c. 1771. He is called 'Evan David of Tir y Clai
teulu EVANS Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog Eleanor, daughter of David Morris, another rector of Ffestiniog (and a prominent supporter of Griffith Jones's schools), and by her was the father of (a) David Griffith, chaplain of Beaumaris gaol, (b) Ann, who married Robert Williams, surgeon, Amlwch, and (c) JANE (died 1852), who became the wife of Thomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866), author of The Misfortunes of Elphin and other works (see D.N.B
teulu EVANS, printers TITUS EVANS (fl. 1760-1800), printer Printing and Publishing Titus Evans was living at Machynlleth some years before he started printing there c. 1789; e.g. his name appears in the imprint to John Prys's Welsh almanack, 1778 (for 1779), as a seller of that publication in Machynlleth. He was an excise officer and, to judge by information given by Ifano Jones (Hist. of Printing and Printers in
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer , lady Llanover consented to defray a portion of the costs of publishing the Welsh dictionary. The first part appeared in 1887, but the first volume - up to the letter C - was not completed until 1893. The first instalment of the second part appeared in 1896. In 1898 he published Telyn Dyfi: Manion ar Fesur Cerdd. In recognition of his lexicographical work, Silvan Evans was in 1897 awarded the medal of
EVANS, DAVID (1778 - 1866), Baptist minister Not to be confused with another David Evans, who was minister at Ffynnonhenry (and at Priory Street, Carmarthen) from 1765 to 1793. Dafydd Evans was born at Nant-y-fen, Conwil Elvet, son of Stephen and Jane Evans, and was at school at Conwil under Arthur Evans. He began preaching c. 1808, and in Easter week 1811 was ordained at Ffynnonhenry as co-pastor. In 1846, rather than submit to a legal
EVANS, DAVID (1793 - 1861), glass stainer the firm of Evans and Betton. Their work, particularly on the great east window, the gift of William of Wykeham, was considered a notable achievement as a specimen of close imitation of the ancient painted glass. Other work by Evans includes the restoration of the east window (dating from c. 1445) in Ludlow church and windows in Lincoln cathedral and in the Abbey church, Shrewsbury. Evans died at
EVANS, DAVID (fl. 1710?-1745?), Independent minister in the Welsh Tract, etc., Pennsylvania, and author Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, B. Franklin, 1732); (b) The Minister of Christ and his Flock … (Philadelphia, B. Franklin, 1732); and (c) Law and Gospel, or Man wholly ruined by the Law and Recovered only by the Gospel. Being the Substance of some Sermons preached at Tredyffren in Pennsylvania … 1734 and again at Piles-Grove in New Jersey in … 1742 (Philadelphia, B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1748). He ministered to
EVANS, DAVID CLEDLYN (1858 - 1940), schoolmaster, geologist, antiquary although he did not complete his own account of this work, he allowed this important line of transition to be copied on to the geological survey map. He was elected Fellow of the Geographical Society and awarded an M.Sc. degree by the University of Wales in recognition of his work. His wife died c. 1924; they had five children. He died 11 June 1940 and was buried in Bethlehem cemetery, St Clears.
EVANS, DAVID MEYRICK (1827 - 1870), Baptist minister Born 30 November 1827 in London. He moved when very young with his parents to the Tregaron, Cardiganshire, district. He began to preach at Swyddffynnon c. 1834. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig, Accrington Academy, and the University of Glasgow, and ministered at Grosvenor Street, Manchester, 1851-8, and Greenfield, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, 1858-70. He was editor of the Llanelly Telegraph, 1860
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, EDMUND (1791 - 1864), Wesleyan preacher (1837) choosing to remain a Wesleyan lay preacher. For some periods he was a stipended lay preacher on various circuits, collecting towards clearing the debt on chapels, and a peripatetic evangelist under the aegis of the North Wales regional meeting. He published articles in Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd and edited a volume of sermons, Dwfr y Bywyd (c. 1855). He died 9 October, 1864.
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer indifference. Bringing a fresh outlook, Evans ignored hidebound attitudes within the university and, with Classics colleague Oliver Davies and a host of volunteers who attended his extramural lectures and participated in field excursions, embarked upon an archaeological survey of the six counties that discovered scores of previously unrecorded megalithic monuments, later published with D. A. Chart and H. C

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