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EVANS, OWEN (1829 - 1920), Congregational minister and author eloquent preacher in comparison with some of his contemporaries nor was his literary style of a high quality. His brothers, David Evans (1842 - 1914) and Thomas Evans (1844 - 1922) are noticed separately.
EVANS, OWEN (1808 - 1865), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster
EVANS, OWEN ELLIS (1920 - 2018), Methodist minister and biblical scholar Owen E. Evans was born on 23 December 1920 in Barmouth, the son of Owen Jones Evans (1887-1926), pharmacist, and his wife Elizabeth Mary (née Jones, 1887-1961), owner of a small hotel. He had one older brother, John William. He spent the first five years of his life in Wimbledon, London, but the family was forced to move back to Barmouth in the summer of 1926 because of his father's illness. He
EVANS, PETER MAELOR (1817 - 1878), publisher Born 10 April 1817, near Adwy'r Clawdd, Denbighshire, where his father, Thomas Evans, was a schoolmaster till he forsook teaching to manage lead mines. He received his early education at his father's school and afterwards at a day school in Mold and at Ruthin Grammar School, where he had a thorough grounding in the classics. He was intended for the law, but decided on printing as a career. He
EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Born in Monmouthshire. His father was William Evans, and his mother, Winifred Morgan, was possibly of Llanfihangel Crucorney. He was educated at S. Omer and entered the Society of Jesus on 8 September 1665, was ordained in 1675 and sent to the Jesuit mission in South Wales. According to the informer, Edward Turberville, he visited Powis castle, but his activities centred on his native county and
EVANS, RHYS (1835 - 1917), musician Caradog '; when Caradog (Griffith Rhys Jones) moved to Treorchy, Evans became conductor of the 'United Aberdare Choir.' He gave up competing and concentrated on the performance, with the aid of an orchestra, of large works by the masters. He was a good violin player and it was his practice to teach the various voices their parts by playing them for them on that instrument. He used also to write in the
EVANS, RHYS (1779 - 1876), poet - gweler EVANS, EDWARD
EVANS, RICHARD (1771 - 1851), bonesetter - gweler THOMAS, HUGH OWEN
EVANS, RICHARD HUMPHREYS (1904 - 1995), Calvinistic Methodist minister and professor of theology
EVANS, RICHARD THOMAS (1892 - 1962), Baptist minister and administrator Born 8 October 1892 at Penygraig, Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire, son of David and Mary Evans (his father was killed in an accident in Abercynon colliery in 1924). His father was a prominent Baptist in the locality, especially so after moving to Abercynon, where he was a deacon at Calfaria chapel. In the second decade of the century he was a keen supporter of the campaign to establish a Support
EVANS, ROBERT (fl. c. 1750), poet
EVANS, ROBERT (Cybi; 1871 - 1956), poet, writer, and bookseller Born 27 November 1871 in Elusendy, Llangybi, Caernarfonshire, one of the seven children of Thomas Evans, farmworker, and Mary (née Roberts). He was educated at the council school, Llangybi and after serving for a time on Eifionydd farms he was the local postman there for the greater part of his life. William Hugh Williams, ' Cae'r go ', was his fellow postman. He also sold 'books of every sort

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