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EVANS, ANNIE FLORENCE (1884 - 1967), revivalist and missionary . Florrie Evans attended the local board school, and was brought up in Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. She was converted there in February 1904 through the re-invigorated preaching of the minister Joseph Jenkins. A little later in an evening meeting, Florrie made a simple, heartfelt declaration of love for Christ: 'Yr wyf fi'n caru Iesu Grist â'm holl galon!' ('I love Jesus Christ with all my
EVANS, Sir ARTHUR JOHN (1851 - 1941), keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - gweler EVANS, LEWIS
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 SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer Geiriadur Cymraeg between 1887 and 1896. In the early seventies he gradually became emancipated from William Owen Pughe's ideas through contacts made with several young scholars whose scientific training must have deeply influenced him; among these were John Peter, (Sir) John Rhys, and John Gwenogvryn Evans. Through the good offices of Benjamin Williams (Gwynionydd, 1821 - 1891), incumbent of Llanover
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar to the Sir John Rhys Chair of Celtic that year, and he continued his studies of Welsh syntax. He gained his B.Litt (Oxford) in 1952. He did not, however, continue his ministerial course (though he was a lay preacher for many years) and he returned to the Welsh department at Swansea as an assistant lecturer in 1948 following the appointment of Melville Richards as principal lecturer in Celtic
EVANS, DAVID (1874 - 1948), musician Born 6 February 1874 in Resolven, Glamorganshire, son of Morgan and Sarah Evans. He was educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and at University College, Cardiff, where he succeeded Dr. Joseph Parry, in 1903, as head of the department of Music, becoming professor in 1908. He gained early prominence in Wales as a composer, with the following works: Llawenhewch yn yr Iôr, a short oratorio, performed
EVANS, DAVID (1879 - 1965), public servant and hymn-writer submitted the composition 'Yn Nghôr Caersalem Lan' to Trysorfa y Plant, where it was published in September 1899 under the nom de plume 'Aeronian'. Joseph Parry, clearly having no idea of the identity of the author, composed a rousing tune, and two verses of the original composition together with the chorus quickly became established as a popular favourite at hymn-singing festivals, the words being
EVANS, DAVID (1793 - 1861), glass stainer Chr. 21 April 1793 at Llanllwchaiarn, Montgomeryshire, the son of David and Mary Evans. He was apprenticed to (Sir) J. Betton of Shrewsbury, with whom he entered into partnership in 1815. The windows of Hawkstone Park, Salop, which were done in elaborate design, were the work of Evans. During the years 1822-28 extensive restorations to the windows of Winchester College chapel were carried out by
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, DAVID DAVIES (1787 - 1858), Baptist minister and editor 1812), the congregation meeting at the New Tabernacle, the debt on which and on the new burial place he succeeded in clearing. He started a school for young preachers; he also hoped to be able to complete the translation of Gill's commentary which had been begun by Titus Lewis, Christmas Evans, and Joseph Harris (Gomer). He married a young woman from Pont-rhyd-yr-ynn, Monmouth, who was possessed of
EVANS, DAVID DELTA (Dewi Hiraddug; 1866 - 1948), journalist, author and Unitarian minister Born in 1866 and brought up in Ochr-y-Marian, between Diserth and Cwm, Flintshire, one of seven children of Joseph Evans, miner, and his wife Ann. He was reared in poverty and began life as a farm servant at the age of ten. Later he worked on a newspaper, The Rhyl Record, and was also associated with Y Faner under Thomas Gee. At 19 he went to London and took a leading part in establishing the
EVANS, Sir DAVID EMRYS (1891 - 1966), educationist and translator University Education in Dundee 1951-52. He was awarded the degree of LL.D. honoris causa by the University of Wales and the University of Liverpool. The city of Bangor made him an honorary freeman in 1958. He was knighted in 1952. Sir Emrys published the following works: Amserau'r Testament Newydd (1926), Crefydd a Chymdeithas (1933), Y Clasuron yng Nghymru (the B.B.C.'s annual lecture in Welsh, 1952), and

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