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EVANS, JOSEPH (1832 - 1909), Calvinistic Methodist minister
EVANS, LEWIS (1755 - 1827), mathematician contact with Wales, but the remarkable record of his family deserves summary mention. His younger son, ARTHUR BENONI EVANS (1781 - 1854), schoolmaster and author, was the father of Sir JOHN EVANS (1823 - 1908), the famous archaeologist and numismatist, and of SEBASTIAN EVANS (1830 - 1909), glass designer and man of letters. Sir John's son, Sir ARTHUR JOHN EVANS (1851 - 1941), keeper of the Ashmolean
EVANS, LEWIS PUGH (1881 - 1962), soldier and public figure, Brigadier General, VC, CB, CMG, DSO Born at Abermad, Aberystwyth, 3 January 1881, the second son of Sir Griffith Evans, KCIE, DL, JP, Barrister at Law, and Lady Evans, of Lovesgrove, Aberystwyth. He was educated at Eton in 1895-1898 and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, January-December 1899. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, The Black Watch, 23rd December 1899, he served immediately in the South African war and took part in the
EVANS, LLEWELLYN IOAN (1833 - 1892), Biblical scholar He was born 23 June 1833, at Treuddyn, near Mold (according to Methodistiaeth sir Fflint and Y Goleuad, but at Caerwys according to C. and D. Herald, Y Traethodydd and Geninen, and at Bangor according to Y Celt and Y Cymro). He was the son and grandson on both sides of Calvinistic Methodist ministers. During 1846 he lived at Bangor, and was secretary of the ' Gomeryddion Society.' He studied at
EVANS, MARY JANE (Llaethferch; 1888 - 1922), elocutionist entered the Old College School, Carmarthen run by Joseph Harry; in order to meet the fees, her family sold the cows. She was placed in a class of talented students and a special course on literature was arranged for her. Mary Jane preached for the first time at Godre'r Graig on 8 July 1909; she usually included a recitation with the sermon. In 1912, she took an examination in elocution and obtained the
EVANS, SAMUEL (1859 - 1935), chairman of the Crown Mine, Johannesburg, educational pioneer Sir Edgar Vincent (lord D'Abernon), financial adviser to the Egyptian Government. In 1887 he became chief controller of the Egyptian Coast Guard Service, and in 1890 inspector-general of the Ottoman Bank. In 1897, as Sir Edgar Vincent's representative, he went to Johannesburg; in 1898 he became a partner in Eckstein and Co., retiring in 1902 to become chairman and managing director of the Crown Mine
EVANS, SAMUEL (Gomerydd; 1793 - 1856), editor Born at Llwyn-y-piod, near St Clears. In 1807 he was apprenticed to the printer John Evans, of Carmarthen. On the death of Joseph Harris (Gomer) in 1825 the office of Seren Gomer was removed to Carmarthen and in 1827 Samuel Evans was appointed associate-editor with D. D. Evans, becoming sole editor in 1835. He remained in this post till 1850, when he was acknowledged to be one of the foremost
EVANS, Sir SAMUEL THOMAS (1859 - 1918), politician and judge were adversely affected by his decisions. Along with Sir Leoline Jenkins and lord Stowell he ranks as one of the principal builders of British prize law. S. T. Evans died 13 September 1918 and was buried at Skewen. He was an honorary Ll.D. (1909) of the University of Wales, and a freeman of Swansea and Neath. There is a bust of him by Sir G. Frampton, R.A., in the Royal Courts of Justice and there
EVANS, GERAINT LLEWELLYN (1922 - 1992), singer
EVANS, STEPHEN (1818 - 1905), Cymmrodor a native of Llanarth, Cardiganshire, according to the Welsh Gazette (but of Llannon, Cardiganshire, says Cymm., 1951). He went to London at an early age, establishing there a successful business as a warehouseman in Old Change. In the fifties of the last century he became closely associated with Sir Hugh Owen in his campaign to further Welsh education, and was an enthusiastic supporter of the
EVANS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (Cadrawd; 1846 - 1918), antiquary and folk-lorist Glamorgan triban verses. Other eisteddfodic prizes, and a gold medal, were awarded him. In 1910 he edited (with L. J. Hopkin James) Hen Gwndidau, a collection of old religious poetry; and in 1913 a volume of selections from Iolo Morganwg (in O. M. Edwards's 'Cyfres y Fil'). He kept up a correspondence (now in the Cardiff City Library) with a wide circle of scholars, e.g. Sir John Rhys and Sir Joseph
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1894 - 1965), local government officer and an administrator within the Baptist denomination indication of his radical nonconformist stance in his volume of tribute Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris … The man and his character (1958). He spent the closing years of his life at the home of his daughter and son-in-law at Parson's Lodge, Clunderwen where he died on 9 March 1965. He was buried on 12 March in Tabernacl graveyard. He had just completed his autobiography, Golden strands: Some memories along life's

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