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EVANS, ALCWYN CARYNI (1828 - 1902), antiquary nephew of Thomas Charles of Bala. They had two daughters, Marian Sophia (born 1872) and Eleonora Imogen (born 1874). Alcwyn Evans died on the 11th March 1902 at his home in Carmarthen. His collections were dispersed after his death. His “beautifully written and carefully indexed volumes of manuscripts” passed into the library of Sir Evan Davies Jones of Pentower, Fishguard and in July 1939 were
EVANS, ALFRED THOMAS (Fred, Menai; 1914 - 1987), Labour politician the Anglo-Libyan Parliamentary Group. He was elected chairman of the Parliamentary Bills Committee in 1975 and chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1977. He was a virulent anti-devolutionist. He retired from parliament at the general election of 1979. He married on 13 September 1939 Mary Katharine, the daughter of Joseph and Cecilia O'Marah. She had already predeceased him in 1981, and they
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 (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 (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 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

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