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EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer ). He was editor of Y Brython from 1858 to 1860. In 1852 he was appointed to the curacy of Llangian in Llyn, where he remained until 1862. He contributed articles to Y Gwyddoniadur up to 1856, when his little volume on orthography appeared, entitled Llythyraeth yr Iaith Gymraeg. In 1862 he was presented to the living of Llan-ym-Mawddwy, Meironnydd, where, between 1866 and 1869, he edited Gwaith Walter
EVANS, EVAN (1804 - 1886), Independent minister and author Rise and Fall of Papacy, Robert Fleming the younger, 1849; Social Religion exemplify'd, Matthias Maurice 1862; he also published a translation by W. Williams, Talgarth, of The privie Key of Heaven, Thomas Brooks, 1845. He edited a periodical, Cyfaill Plentyn, which commenced in 1835 and contributed 'Atgofion Pedwar Ugain Mlynedd' to Cyfaill yr Aelwyd (vi and vii). [ Evans was a prominent participator
EVANS, EVAN HERBER (1836 - 1896), Independent minister and college principal preach in 1857. He was for a time at the Normal College, Swansea, and later at Brecon Memorial College, 1858-62. He was ordained at Libanus, Morriston, 25 and 26 June 1862, to succeed Thomas Jones (1819 - 1882), one of the most famous preachers of his time. He moved, 1865, to Salem, Caernarvon, where he remained as minister until 1892, when he was appointed principal of the Bala-Bangor College at
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, JOHN (1815 - 1891), archdeacon of Merioneth the M.P. From there went on to Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1841. He was ordained and became successively curate of Llanbedr y Cennin, Caernarfonshire; curate of Pentrefoelas, Denbighshire; rector of Machynlleth and rural dean of Cyfeiliog, 1857; rector of Llanllechid, 1862; archdeacon of Merioneth, 1866; rector of Aber, Caernarfonshire, 1888. He died 24 May 1891. He worked
EVANS, JOHN DANIEL (1862 - 1943), early colonist in Patagonia Born in Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, 1862. He accompanied his parents who went out to the Welsh colony with the first batch of emigrants in 1865 and became one of the finest horsemen in the country, a daring adventurer, and an able leader, so much so, that he was known as ' The Baceano '. He went out several times to explore the pampas, the most celebrated occasion being in 1883 when his party
EVANS, JOHN JOHN (1862 - 1942), journalist Born 9 December 1862, at Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at the local primary school but left to work in the quarry. He competed at literary meetings and took an interest in drama, being a member of the Llanberis company, the first Welsh drama company to be formed in Wales. During the Llanberis strike of 1886 he was told by Tecwyn Parry, minister of Gorffwysfa, who was responsible for
EVANS, JOSEPH (1832 - 1909), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Brecon 31 July 1832, he began preaching in 1855, went to Trevecka, and was ordained in 1862, subsequently holding pastorates in English churches of his connexion, at Carmarthen, Tredegar, Swansea, and finally (from 1892), Denbigh. He was not a popular preacher, but was extremely active in the administrative work of the connexion; he was, for some time after 1867, official statistician of
EVANS, LLEWELLYN IOAN (1833 - 1892), Biblical scholar entered Lane Seminary to prepare for the ministry with the Presbyterians, and in 1860 he was ordained and became pastor of Lane Seminary church. In 1862 (1863 ?) he was appointed professor of Church history at Lane, in 1867 professor of Biblical history, in 1871 professor of Hebrew, and in 1873 (1875 ?) professor of New Testament. He was associate editor of the Princeton Review and published numerous
FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar Born on 5 January 1862, at Cilcoll, Llandebïe, being the eldest son of Edward and Mary Fisher. He was educated at the national school, Llandeilo-Talybont (Pontardulais), Llandovery school, and S. David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated B.A., in 1884, and B.D. in 1891, having been scholar and prizeman. Ordained deacon in 1885, and priest in 1886, he held curacies at Pontbleiddyn
teulu FOTHERGILL, iron-masters 1851 and to some strictures by H. A. Bruce, lord Aberdare, the stipendiary magistrate. Abernant grew and prospered to a remarkable degree. In 1873, just previous to the great crash, the wage bill amounted to £200,000 whereas twenty-five years earlier it was £60,000. In 1862, the whole of the Plymouth works, near Merthyr, had passed into his hands. Up to this time they had been carried on in the old
FOULKES, ANNIE (1877 - 1962), editor of an anthology Caernarfon 12 November 1862 aged 85 years.

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