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EVANS, HENRY WILLIAM (1840 - 1919), labour leader and author
EVANS, HUGH (1854 - 1934), author and publisher Camau'r Gysegr, 1926, a history of Stanley Road, Bootle, Welsh C.M. chapel; Hogyn y Bwthyn Bach To Gwellt, 1930, a story for children; Cwm Eithin, first published in 1931 (it had reached its 5th ed. by 1949), the story of social conditions which prevailed in a typical Welsh district 150 years ago - it was translated into English by E. Morgan Humphreys, and published under the title of The Gorse Glen
EVANS, JAMES THOMAS (1878 - 1950), principal of the Baptist College, Bangor Osborne Morgan scholarship, and then proceeded to Leipzig to pursue a further course of study. He obtained the M.A. degree of the University of Wales in 1905 and the London degree of B.D. in 1910. In 1906 he was elected to succeed Dr. T. Witton Davies as professor of Hebrew at the Baptist College, and in 1923 followed Silas Morris as principal of the college. He published many articles, a commentary on
EVANS, JENKIN (1674 - 1709), Independent minister Born in Glamorgan. Nothing is known about his early history or about his education. There is no record of his being licensed to preach nor is his name found in the list of those educated by James Owen. He succeeded James Owen at Oswestry. He was a celebrated preacher, popular not only in the town but in the surrounding districts. Mathew Henry pays him a high tribute for his sterling character and
EVANS, JOHN (1840 - 1897), Wesleyan minister U.S.A. on preaching tours in 1873 and 1887, was elected a member of the Legal Hundred of his denomination (1884) and chairman of the South Wales province (1895), and delivered the 'Provincial Lecture' in 1886. His principal lectures dealt with: the Four Denominations; Bishop Morgan; Thomas Aubrey; and the Power of Custom. He edited Y Winllan, 1878-9, and, in connection with the Pontypridd mission
EVANS, JOHN (1796 - 1861), schoolmaster , where the youth of the neighbourhood received a practical education for over forty years. Among his pupils were Lewis Edwards, Henry Richard, David Charles Davies and Ieuan Gwyllt (John Roberts). When Lewis Edwards kept a school in Aberystwyth he did not consider it to be in competition with but, rather, preparatory to Evans ' school. The school had a good name for the teaching of navigation. Evans
EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter A native of Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire. He travelled considerably in both North and South Wales and in some places suffered persecution. His temperament was genial, but he could thunder forth on occasion. ' John Evan of Killy-comb ' is mentioned in the will of Morgan Rhys, the hymn-writer, 1779. William Williams of Pant-y-celyn wrote a short elegy upon him according to which he was buried at Cil
EVANS, JOHN (c. 1680 - 1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian , among those officiating being Matthew Henry of Chester, James Owen of Oswestry, and Francis Tallents of Shrewsbury. In 1704 he became assistant pastor to Daniel Williams at Hand Alley, London, succeeding Williams in the pastorate on the latter's death in 1716. He took a leading part (on the orthodox side) in the Arian controversy of 1719, but always maintained a tolerant attitude in matters of
EVANS, JOHN (1628 - 1700), Puritan schoolmaster and divine of his own wife he married Powell's widow. Under the Declaration of Indulgence he was licensed (May 1672) to preach to the Independent congregation at Wrexham that had first gathered round Morgan Llwyd, now meeting in a barn rented from Edward Kenrick, while the minister lived in the house in which John Jones the regicide had formerly accommodated Llwyd, and still belonging to the regicide's son
EVANS, JOHN CASTELL (1844 - 1909), science teacher traditions of his native area as indicated by three of his manuscript books which survive. There is no evidence that he underwent training at a training college, but he was a pupil and pupil-teacher at Bala British school, and he is said to have taught at Corwen school. From 1864 he was a schoolteacher at Devonport, where he married, in 1868, Jessie, daughter of William Henry Beal, and kept school on his
EVANS, JOHN JAMES (1894 - 1965), teacher and writer and he was secretary to the Literary Committee at the Fishguard Eisteddfod in 1936. He won his first Eisteddfod prize at Pontypool in 1924 for a Welsh reading-book on animals and birds, illustrated with quotations from Welsh poetry. At the Treorchy Eisteddfod of 1928, he won a prize for an essay on Morgan Rhys and his times which was published by the University of Wales Press in 1935 (Morgan John
EVANS, JOHN VICTOR (1895 - 1957), barrister-at-law Born 7 October 1895 at Cwmdare, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, son of Henry Howard Evans, general manager of the Cambrian Collieries in Mid-Rhondda, a prominent Baptist layman and Mary Ann Evans, his wife, who died shortly after her son was born. He was educated at the local elementary school in Cwmdare and at Christ College, Brecon. There followed war service in Egypt, France and Palestine, and after

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