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EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author (Dyffryn Nantlle), Caernarfon in September 1933, before moving to Tabernacle, Morriston in July 1945 succeeding Rev J.J. Williams. In 1964, he was elected General Secretary of the Union of Welsh Independents, a post he held until his retirement in 1975. He was President of the Union of Welsh Independents, and delivered his address in 1976 in Morriston on "Keeping the Faith". In 1936 he married Elizabeth
EVANS, WILLIAM (1800 - 1880), hymnist Born 1 October 1800, fourth son of Thomas Evans (1756 - 1837) of Pen-y-feidr, Trefgarn, Pembrokeshire, and his wife, Sarah (Bevan); the father, an elder of Woodstock C.M. church, had, in his youth, acted as guide to Williams of Pantycelyn on his journeys in Pembrokeshire. William Evans had but three weeks' schooling. He became a member of Hall C.M. church c. 1820-1, and was later an elder there
EVANS, WILLIAM (1869 - 1948) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary Society to serve in Madagascar in 1898, and was ordained at Siloam, Pentre-estyll, Swansea, 18 and 19 June 1899. He married Margaret, daughter of Reverend R.E. Williams, Ynys-lwyd (Bapt.), Aberdare. On his arrival in Madagascar at the end of 1899 he was appointed minister of Ambatonakanga in the capital, a church established by David Jones of Neuadd-lwyd. Apart from some journeys to the north on behalf
EVANS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1805), early Calvinistic Methodist exhorter (buried in Llanycil churchyard on 1 February); they had at least five children: Elizabeth (1758), Evan, Morris, David, and Anne. He began exhorting about 1765, was a noteworthy preacher, and was one of the most important figures of Bala Methodism in his day, a trustee of Methodist meetinghouses in Merrioneth from 1770 onwards, and an agent for the distribution of Williams of Pantycelyn's hymn-booklets
EVANS, WILLIAM (1779 - 1854), Wesleyan minister (1814), Ruthin (1816), Llanfyllin (1818), Machynlleth (1821), Llanfaircaereinion (1824), Pwllheli (1826), Dolgelly 1828, Caernarvon (1831 - the year of the 'Little Wesley' trouble [see A. H. Williams, Welsh Wesleyan Methodism, chapter vii]), Llandysul (1832), Crickhowell (1835), Swansea (1837), Merthyr (1840), and Machynlleth (1843). He retired in 1844 and settled at Machynlleth, were he died 30 July
EVANS, WILLIAM MEIRION (1826 - 1883), miner, Calvinistic Methodist minister in U.S.A. and Australia, and editor of journals published in Australia first number of Yr Ymgeisydd, but this undertaking did not prosper and no second number appeared. Evans visited Wales in 1865, proceeded to America, but returned once more to Ballarat. In July 1867 appeared the first number of Yr Awstralydd, edited by Evans and Theophilus Williams; this periodical continued to appear until February 1871. On 16 October 1874, the first number of another Welsh periodical
EVANS-WILLIAMS, LAURA (1883 - 1944), singer she taught singing till her death there on 5 October, 1944. She was buried at Henllan. She had married, in 1905, R.T. Williams, and she was survived by a daughter and a son.
EVERETT, ROBERT (1791 - 1875), Independent ministers preacher as William Williams of Wern (1781 - 1840); he took a prominent part in the theological discussions of his time, and wrote an essay on Redemption for John Roberts (1767 - 1834) of Llanbryn-mair's little book, Galwad Ddifrifol (see Cofiant John Jones, Talysarn, 447) He also published a system of Welsh short-hand and Catecism Cyntaf or Yr Addysgydd. In 1833 he moved from Utica to Winfield, leaving
FISON, ANNA (Morfydd Eryri; 1839 - 1920), linguist, poet and educator the instigation of Dr. Charles Williams, principal of Jesus College. In 1871 she married David Walter Thomas, and their children (two sons and three daughters) were brought up good Welshmen and Welshwomen. One of their sons was the priest and scholar Evan Lorimer Thomas. She threw herself into Welsh life, holding night classes for the local quarrymen; she was instrumental in aiding many of them to
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author was by then 67 years old and quite frail. And he soon faced a major crisis in January 1981 when four stars of the Labour Party, Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers, decided to leave and create a new party, the SDP. Throughout Foot's leadership, the opinion polls insisted that he was not popular, and he was nicknamed Worzel Gummidge by politicians and the press alike. Labour's
FOSTER, IDRIS LLEWELYN (1911 - 1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar Born 23 July 1911 at Carneddi, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, the elder son (there were no daughters) of Harold Llewelyn Foster of Bethesda and his wife Anna Jane Roberts, both of whom were shopkeepers. Foster was educated at Bethesda County School and the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he graduated BA with First Class Honours in Welsh, with Latin as an Accessory subject, in 1932
FOULKES, ISABELLE JANE ('Issi') (1970 - 2001), deaf artist, designer and campaigner

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