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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, JAMES THOMAS (1878 - 1950), principal of the Baptist College, Bangor
EVANS, JANET (1894 - 1970), journalist and civil servant Born in London c. 1894, daughter of Thomas John Evans and Margaret (née Davies), 82 Addington Mansions, Highbury, both natives of Cardiganshire. She received private tuition before going to the Central Foundation Girls' School and subsequently attending courses held by London University. After obtaining comprehensive secretarial training she eventually became private secretary to the managing
EVANS, JOHN (1756 - 1846), surgeon : ROBERT WILSON EVANS (1789 - 1866), cleric, Fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, a prolific author who became archdeacon of Westmorland; THOMAS EVANS (1791 - 1853), a naval officer who saw active service in the Napoleonic wars; and WILLIAM EDWARD EVANS (1801 - 1869), cleric, who became canon of Hereford. They are all commemorated in Williams, Montgomeryshire worthies, and Robert Wilson Evans
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1817), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter he was officially given the status of exhorter. He acquired great repute as one of the most reliable leaders of North Wales Methodism; his ready wit was matched by acute observation and wise judgement. The scheme for paying for chapels by small regular contributions was of his devising. When Thomas Charles settled at Bala, John Evans became his right-hand man. By the end of the century he had
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 (1840 - 1897), Wesleyan minister U.S.A. on preaching tours in 1873 and 1887, was elected a member of the Legal Hundred of his denomination (1884) and chairman of the South Wales province (1895), and delivered the 'Provincial Lecture' in 1886. His principal lectures dealt with: the Four Denominations; Bishop Morgan; Thomas Aubrey; and the Power of Custom. He edited Y Winllan, 1878-9, and, in connection with the Pontypridd mission
EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter -y-cwm in March 1784 - the diarist William Thomas says he was 'about 47.' A collection was made for his wife and children at the Llangeitho Association, 1785. One of his sons was John Evans of Llandovery, and later of Llandilo, a dry and quarrelsome preacher who, before he died, joined the Church of England.
EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath is said by Browne Willis (who wrote in 1721 during Evans's lifetime) to have been born at Plas Du, Llanarmon, Caernarfonshire. Needless to say, he was not one of the Owens, original owners of Plas Du, two of whom figure elsewhere in this work, for they had left the place before his time. Where exactly his family came from is far from clear. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), in Y Brython, iv, 422
EVANS, JOHN (Y Bardd Cocos; 1827? - 1888), eccentric and poetaster guise he would turn up punctually at national eisteddfod meetings. They also conducted a fabricated correspondence between him and queen Victoria, to whom he proposed marriage. His 'poems' have probably been augmented by tradition. Benefactors would get them printed in leaflet form and the bard would hawk them around the fairs. A selection, with a good introduction by Thomas Roberts (Alaw Ceris), was
EVANS, JOHN (1830 - 1917), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and biographer -gofiant am naw a deugain o weinidogion ymadawedig Sir Aberteifi (1894), Hanes Methodistiaeth De Aberteifi, 1735-1900 (1904), Yr Ail Fyr-Gofiant (1908), and Y Trydydd Byr-Gofiant (1913) - all published at Dolgelley; he also edited Hanes Bywyd y Parch. Thomas Edwards, Cwmystwyth. His wife, Eleanor, was sister of Dan Jenkins of Llan-y-crwys, schoolmaster and poet.
EVANS, JOHN (1702 - 1782), cleric and anti-Methodist Born at Meidrym, Carmarthenshire, 2 September 1702, son of Rice Evans and grandson of Thomas Price, vicar of Meidrym with Llanfihangel Abercowin for thirty-nine years; educated at Carmarthen grammar school and at Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated 26 February 1721/2, and is possibly the unidentified John Evans who, according to Foster, graduated in February 1725/6. In 1730 he received

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