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EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor Clifford Evans was born in Senghennydd, Glamorgan, on 17 February 1912, the youngest of three children of David Evans, an outfitter, and his wife Dinah, a milliner. He had a brother, Kenneth, and a sister, Pearl. When his father joined up for the Great War Cliff went to live with his maternal grandparents in Bronwydd, Carmarthenshire. Welsh was his first language. At eleven years old he attended
EVANS, DAFYDD (1842 - 1893), schoolmaster - gweler EVANS, DAVID
EVANS, DAFYDD - gweler EVANS, DAVID
EVANS, DANIEL (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792 - 1846), cleric and poet to ill health, returned home to his parents, and never took up another appointment as long as he lived. He published: Awdlau: gan … Daniel Evans, bardd i Anrhydeddus Gym-deithas y Gwyneddigion, Llundain, 1810 (no. 9 in ' Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion'); Gwlad fy Ngenedigaeth and Attebiad 'Ioan Tegid,' 1819? (a poem trying to persuade ' Tegid ' not to leave Wales for the East Indies); Awdl
EVANS, DANIEL (Eos Dâr; 1846 - 1915), musician Born in a thatched cottage called Tŷ Coch, near Carmarthen, son of Dafydd and Esther Evans. The family moved to Aberdare, where the boy began to work in a coalmine at the early age of 8. As the father was a printer in the office of Y Gwron and Seren Gomer, the son came to know such persons as Llew Llwyfo (Lewis W. Lewis) and others who worked in that printing office. When he was 11 years old he
EVANS, DANIEL (1774 - 1835), Congregational minister he spent the remainder of his life as a very successful minister and preacher. He succoured weak churches and started some new causes. He was a moderate Calvinist in his doctrine. He died 3 March 1835. He wrote biographies of Lewis Rees, William Evans of Cwmllynfell John Davies of Alltwen, and John Davies of Llansamlet, together with Lleferydd yr Asyn (Swansea, J. Harris, 1822), Y Cawg Aur (Swansea
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer Born at Fron Wilym Uchaf, LlanarthLlanarth, Cardiganshire, 11 January 1818, son of Silvanus and Sarah Evans. From 1838 to 1840 he was at Thomas Phillips's school at Neuadd-lwyd, where he began to preach among the Independents. In December 1840 he went to Brecon Independent College, but his stay there was short. Thereafter for five years he kept school. In 1843 he published a collection of poems
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar places in the denominational scriptural examinations, a lay preacher and poet, 'thirsting after knowledge' according to his admiring son. Simon Evans was educated at Llanfynydd primary school, where the headmaster, E. J. Thomas, was a valuable and influential pillar of support to him, as he later acknowledged. He went to Llandeilo grammar school and in 1939 he entered University College Swansea, the
EVANS, DAVID (Dewi Haran; 1812 - 1885), auctioneer, valuer, land agent, and poet and poetry. He contributed much to the periodical press and wrote several prize essays for the national and other eisteddfodau, receiving also numerous prizes for englynion, pryddestau, etc. He published some poems under the title of Telyn Haran in 1878 (Pontypridd, B. Davies); the volume, which was dedicated to lord Tredegar, was edited by William Thomas (Glanffrwd, 1843 - 1890), and contains some
EVANS, DAVID (1740 - 1790) Dolau, Baptist minister was the first to go to North Wales with the mission sent by his denomination in 1776, and was the first to baptize by immersion in Anglesey. He died at the age of 50 on 14 October 1790. His son was David Evans (1773-1828)
EVANS, DAVID (1814 - 1847), Wesleyan minister
EVANS, DAVID (1705 - 1788), cleric, author, and musician Born at Llangynyw, Montgomeryshire, the son of David Evans, cleric, Llangynyw. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1728, M.A. 1731). He received the choral vicariate of Llanddwyn in 1734, and in 1737 became rector of Llanerfyl; he exchanged the latter in 1767 for Llanymynech, where he spent the remainder of his days. In 1772 he was made a canon of S. Asaph. He was regarded as a good

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