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EVANS, DAVID GWILYM LLOYD (1933 - 1990), cricketer and cricket umpire the professional group of first-class umpires. He was a popular after dinner speaker, and, a fluent Welsh speaker, he frequently contributed to BBC Welsh-language sports programmes. David Evans died at Dre-fach, Llandysul on 25 March, 1990.
EVANS, DAVID PUGH (1866 - 1897), musician first, 'Yr Hen Gerddor,' being followed by 'Hyd fedd hi gâr yn gywir,' 'Brad Dynrafon,' 'Oleuni Mwyn,' etc. He also composed a duet, 'Y Delyn â'r Crwth'; part-songs, 'O fy Iesu, Mhriod Annwyl,' 'Golch fi,' 'Teyrnged Cariad' (for male voices), and composed an arrangement of 'Y Delyn Aur.' One of the most promising young Welsh composers, he died at the age of 31 on 3 February 1897. He was buried at the
EVANS, DAVID TUDOR (1822 - 1896), journalist Born 3 February 1822 at Cilgynydd, Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, son of John Evans, minister of Pen-y-groes, (Pembrokeshire) and Hebron, (Carmarthenshire) Independent churches. Early in life he became a successful draper at Narberth, and devoted much time to educational work, gaining the commendation of R. R. W. Lingen (see the 1847 Report of Commissioners on Education in Wales) for his services as
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 literary and antiquarian renaissance in Wales in the 18th century, e.g. Richard and William Morris, William Wynn of Llangynhafal, and Goronwy Owen. Ordained deacon at S. Asaph, 4 August 1754, and priest, 3 August 1755, he was licensed as curate of Manafon, Montgomeryshire. Some time in the first six months of 1756 he left, and spent the remainder of the year as curate of Lyminge, Kent. Early in 1757 he
EVANS, EVAN (1804 - 1886), Independent minister and author with persecution on account of his principles. He joined the Independents in 1847 at Beaufort, Brecknock, and was a minister at Llangiwg, Glamorganshire, 1852-3, Risca and Machen, Monmouthshire, 1855-7, and Risca alone, 1857-60. He was a popular preacher. In 1869 he emigrated to America, whither a daughter and other relatives had already gone, and settled at Oak-hill, Ohio. He travelled a great deal
EVANS, EVAN (1773 - 1827), Baptist minister Born 3 June 1773 at Bryn-y-gwdyn, Llanarmon, Caernarfonshire, was baptized by John Williams (1768 - 1825) in April 1795, and removed to Rhos-llannerch-rugog c. 1797. He tended at first towards Sandemanianism, but soon decided to plough his own furrow, attaching himself to neither of the two factions which at the time divided North Wales Baptists. In 1802, while working near Llanfyllin, he founded
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, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician campaigning over 35 years and more had been trampled underfoot. To cap it all, he was displaced by the Carmarthenshire electors for the second time on 3 May. His public vow a year later to fast unto death had to do with much more than its explicit purpose, the establishment of a Welsh-language television channel. Gwynfor was convinced that his party, and more importantly than that, his nation, faced
EVANS, HENRY (fl. end of 17th century), poet and translator A native of Bedwellty, Monmouth. In 1771 Thomas Williams (1697 - 1778) of Mynydd-bach, Carmarthenshire, published a volume of verse translated by Henry Evans from the English, entitled Cynghorion Tad i'w Fab, which included a letter from Stephen Hughes, dated 12 March 1682/3, stating that he had received the book for publication from the author, who thus must have been a contemporary of Stephen
EVANS, HORACE (1st. BARON EVANS of MERTHYR TYDFIL), (1903 - 1963), physician contact with him. His sympathy and understanding stemmed largely from his own family experiences. He married in 1929 Helen Aldwyth, daughter of T.J.D. Davies, Swansea and they had two daughters, the younger of whom they lost in tragic circumstances. He died 26 October 1963, and Lady Evans on 3 December 1963 after a distressing illness. Hubert John Evans (born 1904), ambassador to Nicaragua 1952-54, was
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1817), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born at Glan'rafon, Wrexham, 30 October 1723; his parents removed in 1727 to Adwy'r Clawdd - it was John Evans who gave the land on which Adwy chapel, the first Methodist chapel in North Wales, was built, 1750-3. For a while he was a weaver, then a miner in the Minera lead-mines, but in 1742 he went to Bala and resumed the craft of weaving; later he was a book-binder, and later on in life (in the

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