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EVANS, DAVID TUDOR (1822 - 1896), journalist Evans the poorer by £5,000. He next founded the monthly, Y Wawr, which collapsed with the fifteenth issue. Thereafter Evans wrote much for the Western Mail and became a Conservative. He was secretary of the 1883 national eisteddfod held in Cardiff. Before his death on 2 October 1896 he received £100 from the Treasury in recognition of his literary services.
EVANS, PHILIP (1645 - 1679), priest, of the Society of Jesus, and martyr Glamorgan. He visited Charles Proger at Wern-ddu, Llantilio Crossenny, and at his trial witnesses came from Llanfihangel Crucorney and Llangattock juxta Caerleon. As ' Captain Evans ' he stayed with Thomas Gunter of Abergavenny and preached in Welsh in his chapel in Cross Street where, it was said, '100's goe to Mass there when not 40 goe to Church'. In Glamorgan he visited Pyle and the houses of Howel
EVANS, WILLIAM MEIRION (1826 - 1883), miner, Calvinistic Methodist minister in U.S.A. and Australia, and editor of journals published in Australia 100 miles from Adelaide, and began to preach to his fellow- Welshmen there - the first Welsh preacher in Australia. In 1850 he moved to Aponinga and, 1852, to the Bendigo gold-mining district, where he made a considerable sum of money. He returned to Wales in March 1853 in order to take his parents and other members of his family to the U.S.A. He settled in the state of Illinois in the summer of the
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress . Although they had ceased to be partners, their close friendship endured. In her nineties, Gwen was twice a guest on Desert Island Discs, and interviewed in documentaries about her long career. She also appeared on the Wogan show, giving a word-perfect performance of her Conwy-inspired balcony scene from Juliet. At the age of 100 came her last television role: a Sherlock Holmes drama, The Master
GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk the day of the battle of Badon (Nennius Vindicatus, 100), and not merely in the same year. When, then, did the siege of Mount Badon take place? The Annales Cambriae give 516. Add forty-three to that and we get 559-60 as the time of the writing of De Excidio. That will not do, because Maelgwn is addressed by the author as a living and lively ruler - and Maelgwn died in 547 according to the Annales
GRIFFITHS, EDWIN STEPHEN (1868 - 1930), busnessman and philanthopist church and in Welsh culture did not diminish. It was his love of singing and things Welsh that prompted him to fund the journey of the Cleveland Orpheus Male Voice Choir to compete in the National Eisteddfod held in Swansea in 1926. The venture cost him some 20,000 dollars and the choir won the first prize of £100 in the main competition for male voice choirs numbering 60 or over. Seventeen male voice
GRIFFITHS, ERNEST HOWARD (1851 - 1932), physicist and educationalist air temperatures up to 100 degrees centigrade. In 1918 he retired to Cambridge, and for some years threw himself wholeheartedly into the work of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he became treasurer. He continued this work until incapacitated by a long and painful illness. He died 3 March 1932.
GRIFFITHS, JOHN (1820 - 1897), cleric and educationalist sides of Welsh life. A devoted churchman, he was loved and respected by many nonconformists. He devoted much time and energy to building churches and schools in the parishes where he served, and he revived the Welsh services at Neath after a lapse of 100 years. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the university colleges at Aberystwyth and Cardiff in their early days, and from 1860 he was associated
teulu HARLEY (earls of Oxford and Mortimer), Brampton Bryan, Wigmore - first in 1671, then continuously from 1691 till 1714, and afterwards for a time after 1768. The stewardship brought them not only an annual 'fee' (increased specially by £100 for ' prime minister ' Harley), but all the courts within the stewardry, with their fees; and the courts of the boroughs were convened for the sole purpose of electing burgesses (i.e. parliamentary voters) so that the Harleys
HOGGAN, FRANCES ELIZABETH (1843 - 1927), physician and social reformer admiration of John Gibson, a prominent supporter of women's rights and editor and owner of the Cambrian News. Subsequent historians of Wales have also seen her as 'one of the leading feminist pioneers of Victorian Wales' (Evans, p.100). After a letter of support to the Association for Promoting the Education of Girls in Wales in 1886, Hoggan appears to have played no further role in Wales's education scene
HUGHES, JOHN (CEIRIOG) (Ceiriog; 1832 - 1887), poet publish four volumes of Welsh airs but only one appeared, Cant o Ganeuon: Yn Cynwys, Y Gyfres Gyntafo Eiriau ar Alawon Cymreig, but in Y Bardd a'r Cerddor he has a list of 1,195 of them and he maintains that there were between sixty and 100 anonymous airs. It is quite impossible to understand Ceiriog's poetry without taking into consideration his love of collecting old melodies, for his objective as a
HUGHES, ROBERT ARTHUR (1910 - 1996), medical missionary in Shillong, Meghalaya, north-east India, and an influential leader in the Presbyterian Church of Wales families from the tea plantations of the Assam plains and Cachar, and middle-class people from as far as Calcutta. These patients were the chief source of finance for the hospital, allowing Hughes and the staff to offer high medical and surgical care and opportunities for poor Khasi folk who often would walk on foot 100 miles one-way to receive treatment. His daily schedule was long, twelve hours a day

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