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EVANS, HORACE (1st. BARON EVANS of MERTHYR TYDFIL), (1903 - 1963), physician five other hospitals and to the Royal Navy. It was through his influence that the Royal College of Physicians was moved from Trafalgar Square, having attracted the magnanimous financial support of the Wolfson Foundation towards the cost of erecting new buildings at Regent's Park. He served the royal family as physician to Queen Mary in 1946, to King George VI in 1949 and to Queen Elizabeth in 1952
EVANS, JAMES THOMAS (1878 - 1950), principal of the Baptist College, Bangor Born 1 March 1878 at Abercwmboi, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, son of William Evans and his wife Ann Williams. The family moved to Pont-y-gwaith, and it was there that the son began to preach. He spent some time at the Pontypridd Academy before his admission to the college and the university at Bangor in 1900, where he took an honours degree in Hebrew. He won the Dean Edwards prize and the George
EVANS, JOHN (1768 - c. 1812), topographical writer example, was a paraphrase, in 19th century wording, of what George Owen of Henllys had written two centuries before. He died c. 1812, i.e. before the publication in 1815 of vol. xvii of The Beauties of England and Wales.
EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath he was, he was the last Welsh bishop of the see till Daniel Lewis Lloyd was appointed in 1890. In January 1715/16 he was translated to Meath. He died at Dublin, 22 March 1723/4; he left a good deal of money to the Irish Church and to the commissioners of Queen Anne's Bounty, and £140 for the rectory of Llanaelhaiarn.
EVANS, JOHN (c. 1680 - 1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian doctrine. He was a trustee of the regium donum (1723) and headed the Nonconformist deputation to congratulate George II on his accession (1727). He wrote many theological works (listed in D.N.B.), and received the degree of D.D. from Edinburgh University in November 1728, but not from Aberdeen (as in D.N.B.) nor from Glasgow (as in Palmer). He also collected (but did not live to use) materials for a
EVANS, JOHN (1628 - 1700), Puritan schoolmaster and divine . The revocation of the Declaration reduced Evans to poverty, which he relieved by selling much of his library and by acting as tutor to the children of gentlemen of rank in the district. Their protection, and especially that of lady Eyton (widow of Sir Kenrick Eyton of Eyton Isaf), saved him from persecution. In 1681 William Lloyd (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph, made strenuous efforts to bring him
EVANS, LEWIS PUGH (1881 - 1962), soldier and public figure, Brigadier General, VC, CB, CMG, DSO consolidation, collapsed from loss of blood. As there were numerous casualties, he refused assistance, and by his own efforts ultimately reached the dressing station. His example of cool bravery stimulated in all ranks the highest valour and determination to win', London Gazette, 26 November 1917. He was decorated with the VC by H.M. King George V at Buckingham Palace, 2 January 1918. After recovering from
EVANS, MARY JANE (Llaethferch; 1888 - 1922), elocutionist Born 3 February 1888, in a house at Reed Row, Godre'r Graig, Swansea Valley, the daughter of Charles Francis, conductor of Ystalyfera Band, and his wife, Mary Ann Hutchings. Both Charles Francis and his father, George Francis, who came to Ystalyfera from the Caerleon district, Monmouth, were able musicians. The parents of Thomas Hutchings, Mary Ann's father and also a musician, came from Bristol
EVANS, PETER MAELOR (1817 - 1878), publisher became a partner in the firm of Lloyd and Evans (see John Lloyd,, fl 1829-59), publishers and printers, of Mold and Holywell, later of Holywell only, and when John Lloyd retired from the firm on his departure to Liverpool to publish Yr Amserau in 1848, Peter Maelor Evans became the sole proprietor. In 1848 he married M. Kerfoot, third daughter of James Kerfoot of Vaenol Fawr, near Abergele, by whom he
EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Carne (of the Nash family) and Christopher Turberville of Sker. He was arrested on 2 December 1678 at Sker, after John Arnold had offered £50 reward for his capture, in the nation-wide upheaval that followed the disclosures of Titus Oates. He was imprisoned in Cardiff castle with Father John Lloyd, and the two priests were tried in the Shire Hall on Thursday and Friday, 8 and 9 May 1679, by judge Owen
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1863 - 1932), journalist was the friend and supporter of the brilliant young men of his generation - Tom Ellis, David Lloyd George, William Llewelyn Williams, and Ellis Jones Griffith. A notable collector of Welsh books and books pertaining to Wales, he was also an authority on the history of Welsh societies and settlements in London. He was a member of the council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. A genial and
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author The second of Robert and Winifred Evans' four children, and the eldest son, he was born February 5 1909, at Y Fedw, a farm in the parish of Llanycil, near Bala, Meirionethshire. His father was an elder and the precentor in Moelygarnedd Chapel (C M.) and his mother was of the Lloyd family, Pen-y-bryn, Llandderfel. 'Llwyd o'r Bryn' (Bob Lloyd) was her brother, and as a boy Trebor turned to his

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