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EVANS, CHRISTMAS (1766 - 1838), Baptist minister Robert Roberts (1762 - 1802) of Clynnog, the most powerful preacher in Wales, he had a new vision of the art of preaching, and discovered in the drama the line most suited to his own genius. On Christmas Day 1791 he rode from Llŷn to Anglesey, with Catherine riding pillion, to take charge of the Anglesey Baptists at their headquarters at Ebenezer, Llangefni, and to make his home in the chapel-house
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor that term. He began classes that very day. Bernard Shaw, Charles Laughton and Robert Donat were amongst the lecturers at RADA at that time. Another former Llanelli Intermediate School pupil, Professor Lloyd James who tutored BBC announcers, helped him with his King's English. Evans subsequently won the Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson Prize for spoken English among other prizes and the RADA scholarship
EVANS, DANIEL (1774 - 1835), Congregational minister Isaac Price, Llanwrtyd, in 1776, but he was not ordained there. In 1779 he accepted a call to minister to the small church at Bangor, Caernarfonshire. His lot there was hard as the church was weak. He worked assiduously, nevertheless, extending his field of activities as far as the Conway valley; he founded seven churches in the neighbourhood of Bangor. In 1808 he moved to Mynydd-bach, Swansea, where
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar become an able student of historical linguistics and grammar under the tuition of his professor, Henry Lewis. His first field of research was a syntactical study of some Early Modern Welsh prose texts, the language of the transition from Middle Welsh to Modern Welsh and a previously largely unexplored period. He was awarded his MA in 1948 and published a series of articles in the Bulletin of the Board
EVANS, DAVID (1874 - 1948), musician Moliant Cenedl, a scholarly collection of the best hymn tunes, was a beneficial influence at the time. His editorship of Y Cerddor (1916-21) also revealed his thorough understanding of the musical scene in Wales. He actively encouraged orchestral music and he also proposed many reforms with regard to music at the Eisteddfod. His expertise in the field of religious music was widely recognised, and a
EVANS, DAVID (1879 - 1965), public servant and hymn-writer well into his retirement. Much of his work was commemorative in content, sometimes an event of national significance such as the Welsh Religious Revival, but more usually to mark the death of a relative or friend. The death of his grandfather in 1898 stimulated an elegy of no fewer than 21 stanzas, each one eight lines in length. At about the same time, perhaps encouraged by John Finnemore, he
EVANS, DAVID ALLAN PRICE (1927 - 2019), pharmacogeneticist Birkenhead) and Sir Cyril Clarke. At Clarke's suggestion Evans spent a year at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1958, working alongside Victor McKusick in clinical genetics, work which would lead to his Liverpool MD in 1960. His medical research brought him to the attention of the academic world, particularly in the field of pharmacogenetics. As a result of his findings, he taught and lectured in
EVANS, Sir DAVID TREHARNE (1849 - 1907), lord mayor of London, head of the firm of Richard Evans and Co., trimming manufacturers common councilman, and in 1884 an alderman of the City of London. He was senior sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1885-6, and in 1891 became lord mayor of London, the first Welshman for nearly seventy years to occupy that position [see Waithman, Robert ]. On leaving office he was created K.C.M.G. He was connected with several city guilds, whose mastership he held in due course. A leading member of the
EVANS, EDGAR (1876 - 1912), explorer adventure and in 1891, at the age of 15, he ran away to join the Royal Navy. Edgar Evans served on a number of vessels including in 1897 on HMS Majestic, where he met Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) who was serving as a torpedo officer. The two became friends and, when Scott began leading expeditions to the Antarctic, he invited Edgar Evans to join him. Edgar Evans was a member of Scott's first 'Discovery
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
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd; 1795 - 1855), cleric and poet Born at Tan-y-celyn, Trefriw, Caernarfonshire, 20 April 1795. His father, Robert Evans, was a local poet and man of letters, while his mother, Elizabeth, was a woman of some culture, being able to read Welsh and English - they were among the founders of Calvinistic Methodism at Trefriw. Evan Evans was sent to the school kept at Trefriw church by one Griffiths; from there he went to the free
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Fardd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir; 1731 - 1788), scholar, poet, and cleric Llanfair Talhaearn for the remainder of the time. During this period he was busily engaged in collecting and copying Welsh manuscripts of literary and historical interest and so came into touch with others who were doing the same thing, e.g. David Jones of Trefriw (1708? - 1785), John Thomas (1736 - 1769), Rhys Jones of Blaenau, Richard Roberts, translator of Y Credadyn Bucheddol, 1768, Robert Thomas

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