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EVANS, Sir GRIFFITH HUMPHREY PUGH (1840 - 1902), barrister Born 13 January 1840, son of John Evans, J.P., Loves-grove, Llanbadarn-fawr, Cardiganshire. He was a cousin of Griffith Evans. He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford (matriculated 1858, scholar, B.A. 1862 with a first in classical moderations, M.A. 1872), and was admitted barrister-at-law (Lincoln's Inn) in 1867. He married, 1873, Emilia Savi, daughter of James Hills, of Neechindepore, Bengal
EVANS, GRIFFITH IFOR (1889 - 1966), surgeon and pioneer of the Christian Faith Healing Movement in Wales practice. He had a good singing voice, he was an elder at Engedi chapel and a lay preacher. In 1942-43 he was president of the North Wales Branch of the B.M.A., and in the same year he was High Sheriff of the County of Caernarfon. He was a man of wide culture and was interested in philosophy and theology as well as the sciences. As the years went by Griffith Evans was increasingly attracted to the
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician of self-government for Wales, but just as much, particularly influenced by George M. Ll. Davies and Dr Gwenan Jones, in favour of social Christianity and the peace movement. In 1939 he was appointed secretary of Heddychwyr Cymru, the Welsh branch of the Peace Pledge Union, a movement advocating uncompromising pacifism. Gwynfor's aspiration to merge pacifism with Welsh nationalism was realised when
EVANS, HAROLD MEURIG (1911 - 2010), teacher, lexicographer two Emeritus Professors, namely Derec Llwyd Morgan and the late Hywel Teifi Edwards, Gareth Jones who was at that time Director of Education for Cardiganshire and Dr. Huw Walters, Head of the Bibliography of Wales Unit at the National Library of Wales. When Hywel Teifi Edwards was approached regarding the nomination his response was “My dear girl, where on earth have you been till now?”. However
EVANS, HENRY (fl. 1787-1839), Arminian Baptist minister ). Evans's Merthyr church also faded out; its chapel was bought by the Particular Baptists in 1812-13 (D. Jones, Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru, 592 - Jones, who was at the time a printer in the town, had a hand in the purchase). What became of Henry Evans afterwards is not known, but he was alive in 1839 (Hanes y Bedyddwyr yn Neheubarth Cymru, 440).
EVANS, HUGH (1854 - 1934), author and publisher Methodist chapel, Bootle; he subsequently worked for seven years in the clog-sole works of R. J. Jones, Vauxhall Works, Liverpool. He started a stationer's shop in Stanley Road, Liverpool, in 1889, established a printing press in 1897, and began printing periodicals, including the quarterly Y Beirniad (1911-18); between 1897 and 1934 he published over 300 Welsh books. With his two sons and Arthur Foulkes
EVANS, ILLTUD (1913 - 1972), Catholic priest Illtud Evans was born on 16 July 1913, the son of David Spencer Evans, a postmaster, and his wife Catherine (née Jones). Despite being born in Chelsea, he came from Welsh nonconformist stock. His given names were John Alban. He attended Towyn Grammar School in Merionethshire, meaning that he grew up bilingual. He was also academically gifted; he entered St David's College Lampeter in 1931 as
EVANS, IOAN LYONEL (1927 - 1984), Labour politician the holding of a referendum on the matter. From 1977 he returned to his work as secretary to the Welsh group of Labour MPs, and continued in this position until 1982 and was most active on an array of Labour backbench committees. In 1982 be became a Labour front-bench spokesman on the EEC, and in 1983 was appointed Junior Welsh Affairs spokesman working alongside Barry Jones MP. At the June 1983
EVANS, JOHN (1858 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and professor at the Memorial College, Brecon First Letter to the Corinthians, Epistol Cyntaf Paul at y Corinthiaid (1926). He wrote an article on the Independents in the neighbourhood of Painscastle and Hay for The history of Congregationalism in Breconshire and Radnorshire (ed. Joseph Jones; 1912) and he was among the contributors to the Independents ' Llyfr Gwasanaeth (1926). He also contributed to Y Tyst and Y Dysgedydd. He was chairman of
EVANS, JOHN (1796 - 1861), schoolmaster helped to send Evans to a school conducted by Griffith Davies, the famous actuary. There he made rapid progress in mathematics.After keeping school at Llanfair Caereinion and Llanidloes, he returned to Aberystwyth about 1821 (or earlier, for his tombstone states that he was a schoolmaster for forty-four years) to open his famous school, ' The Mathematical and Commercial School,' in Chalybeate Street
EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath , places them at Elernion in the north of Llanaelhaiarn, Caernarfonshire; John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), in Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon, 74, gives Bryn Bychan, in the south of that parish, as their habitat; J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 257), while locating them at Bryn Bychan, places that house in Nantlle. It seems on the whole better to regard Griffith's 'Nantlle' as a slip, to take Thomas's 'Elernion' as a
EVANS, JOHN (1702 - 1782), cleric and anti-Methodist on Griffith Jones and upon Methodism - imitating, and inspired by, his patron Gibson. As early as 1745 there was bad blood between him and Griffith Jones; in 1749 he published a pamphlet against Griffith Jones and Whitefield, and in 1752 his Some Account of the Welch Charity Schools (etc.), a most scurrilous piece of invective which, however, contains valuable facts which cannot be ignored

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301 - 312 of 1927 for "Griffith Hartwell Jones"